Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 20:15:14 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: trouble printing from opera Message-ID: <4622EA42.4040902@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <200704152207.35256.daeg@houston.rr.com> References: <200704152149.58154.freebsd@dfwlp.com> <200704152207.35256.daeg@houston.rr.com>
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David J Brooks wrote: > On Sunday 15 April 2007 09:49:57 pm you wrote: >> im running FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p3, with KDE, cups, and most current opera. >> i can print from everything else i use (which is i guess just kmail... but >> i did test from konqueror, and that works too), but i cannot get opera to >> send a job to my printer. >> >> if i go to the KDE printer manager, i can send a sucessful test page, but >> opera just quietly prints nothing. where should i start looking to find >> out where the breakdown is? >> >> thanks, > > I've never found a way to make non-KDE apps print from the KDE print manager. > My solution has been to print to pdf and then load that into Kpdf and print > from there. If there's a better way to do it, I'd love to learn how. > > David Can't you setup KDE / your apps to print straight out to a printer using lpr? -Garrett
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