Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2011 10:10:19 +0100 From: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de> To: Kristofer M White <me@kmwhite.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: xpdf can not print via cups if started from firefox Message-ID: <4D75F27B.7020709@zedat.fu-berlin.de> In-Reply-To: <2ypuye465qcuc3wmqpgivlmq.1299574150895@email.android.com> References: <2ypuye465qcuc3wmqpgivlmq.1299574150895@email.android.com>
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How to 'configure' this? Firefox3 allows only selecting applications via 'Preferences' Menu. Trying to configure xpdf manually via "about"config" results in can-not-find-application-tag, means: tehre is nothing to look at. On 03/08/11 09:49, Kristofer M White wrote: > Does configuring firefox to launch something like "xterm -e xpdf" rather than just "xpdf" dump any errors to the term when trying to print? > > "O. Hartmann"<ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > >> Hello. >> >> 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. >> I realized that the change of this behaviour occured a long time ago >> when the cups printing system got an update. I never figured out what's >> the diffrence between starting xpdf via terminal and starting via >> firefox. My first guess was that my local ~/.xpdfrc does have effect, as >> the right configured CUPS printing queue showed up, but even the >> firefox-started xpdf client shows the right printing queue, so this >> implies that xpdf also reads my ~/.xpdfrc. >> I'm not sure what's going wrong. I have no clue what kind of paper >> information is passed to xpdf by being called via firefox. Any help >> appreciated. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Oliver >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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