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Date:      Mon, 28 Jan 2008 17:44:13 +0100
From:      Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net>
To:        jahnke@sonatabio.com
Cc:        Rainer Hurling <rhurlin@gwdg.de>, Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Acroread8/nspluginwrapper
Message-ID:  <20080128174413.vzrcobepkw84csk8@webmail.leidinger.net>
In-Reply-To: <1201537403.8739.15.camel@pinot.fmjassoc.com>
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Quoting Frank Jahnke <jahnke@sonatabio.com> (from Mon, 28 Jan 2008 =20
08:23:23 -0800):

>
> On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 14:29 +0100, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
>> Did you really specify /usr/local/lpr instead of
>> /usr/local/bin/lpr or /usr/bin/lpr?
>>
>
> Sorry, that was a typo -- I use /usr/bin/lpr, with CUPS controlling the
> printing.  The message is "The specified file 'usr/bin/lpr' does not
> exist" yet

If acroread lists the contents of the directory and searches for lpr, =20
it will not work (bad acroread), if it just tries to run /usr/bin/lpr, =20
then it should work.

> pinot% ls -l /usr/bin | grep lpr
> l---------   1 root  wheel        18 Apr 13  2007 lpr
> -> /usr/local/bin/lpr
> lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel        19 Jun 16  2007 lprm
> -> /usr/local/bin/lprm
>
> The small shell script does work, but I'm curious why that is required.

See above.

You could try to just put /usr/local/bin/lpr in the acroread config instead.

Bye,
Alexander.

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