Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 17:29:19 +0100 From: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de> To: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> Cc: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xpdf can not print via cups if started from firefox Message-ID: <4D7A4DDF.8090509@zedat.fu-berlin.de> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1103110833340.55175@wonkity.com> References: <4D75EB04.7090704@zedat.fu-berlin.de> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1103080850170.9758@wonkity.com> <4D78AA1B.3000000@zedat.fu-berlin.de> <20110311011336.51d0ce9a.freebsd@edvax.de> <4D79C405.6030201@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1103110833340.55175@wonkity.com>
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On 03/11/11 16:44, Warren Block wrote: > On Fri, 11 Mar 2011, O. Hartmann wrote: > >> On 03/11/11 01:13, Polytropon wrote: >>> >>> Maybe you're experiencing a caching problem? I would guess >>> that as you stated there is a temporary file, this should >>> not happen (in relation to Firefox) there should at least >>> be an error message. >>> >>> Did you try to enter the full command into xpdf's printing >>> dialog, e. g. "/usr/local/bin/lpr -P<printer>", just in case >>> the .xpdfrc setting hasn't been read upon program start? >>> >> Yes, I did, still the same problem. I have the strange feeling that a >> firefox-started xpdf doesn't know anything about CUPS and its printing >> queues. I try to figure out how to log this ... > > With a stock lpr/lpd, Firefox and xpdf work as expected. My .xpdfrc is: > psFile "| lpr -Plaser" > > "laser" is the queue for my laser printer, defined in /etc/printcap. > > If the real BSD lpr is being called, you should see errors in > /var/log/lpd-errs. > > There's a CUPS on FreeBSD article: > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/cups/index.html Using xpdf or any other printing client works well with my setup, even xpdf called from a terminal prints correctly, reports pages, access etc. in /var/log/cups/access_log|pages_log as expected.
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