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Date:      Tue, 8 Mar 2011 08:51:22 -0700 (MST)
From:      Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To:        "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: xpdf can not print via cups if started from firefox
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.1103080850170.9758@wonkity.com>
In-Reply-To: <4D75EB04.7090704@zedat.fu-berlin.de>
References:  <4D75EB04.7090704@zedat.fu-berlin.de>

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On Tue, 8 Mar 2011, O. Hartmann wrote:

> I've got a weird problem here. Very often I download scientific papers as pdf 
> from protals and they got opened via firefox3 with the configured propper 
> utility, in this case xpdf. In such a case, printing is impossible. I hit the 
> print button, a popup shows up with the configured CUPS printing queue, but 
> hitting OK doesn't have any effect. The funny thing is: when opening the same 
> PDF (it is stored in /tmp/) with xpdf by starting xpdf from a terminal, 
> printing on the same queue works well.

In your .xpdfrc, do you specify a full path to the CUPS lpr?



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