Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2011 08:24:46 -0400 From: Jerry <jerry@seibercom.net> To: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Printing from Firefox broken after update. Message-ID: <20110910082446.0e8280eb@scorpio> In-Reply-To: <4E6B324F.8030700@eskk.nu> References: <4E6A3504.6020002@eskk.nu> <20110909191726.4af3e660@debiand1.localdom.ain> <4E6A6152.5070703@eskk.nu> <20110909222951.45a29861.freebsd@edvax.de> <4E6B324F.8030700@eskk.nu>
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On Sat, 10 Sep 2011 11:47:59 +0200 Leslie Jensen articulated: > 2011-09-09 22:29, Polytropon skrev: > > On Fri, 09 Sep 2011 20:56:18 +0200, Leslie Jensen wrote: > >> 2011-09-09 18:17, Rares Aioanei skrev: > >>> On Fri, 09 Sep 2011 17:47:16 +0200 > >>> Leslie Jensen<leslie@eskk.nu> wrote: > >>> > >>>> /usr/local/libexec/cups/filter/pdftops failed > >>> > >>> Does the file exist? > >> > >> Yes! > >> > >> -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 20112 9 Sep 09:12 > >> /usr/local/libexec/cups/filter/pdftops > > > > Try to run it manually. Take a PDF file and convert it into > > PS. Add options you might need for paper size. > > > > Example: > > > > % /usr/local/libexec/cups/filter/pdftops -paper A4 test.pdf > > > > and check the PS output. > > > > See "man pdftops" for details. Maybe it's a dependency problem > > of pdftops... > > > > Note that the "normal" pdftops binary is provided by the > > xpdf port. Maybe you can try to update this one too? I'm > > not sure if CUPS's own binary is in some relation to that > > port, or is it working independently? > > > > > > > > First I did > > portmaster -t -f graphics/xpdf > > Then rehash > > Tried the following both as root and as myself > > I had to add a user and number of copies to the command. > > /usr/local/libexec/cups/filter/pdftops les 1 -paper A4 test.pdf > > which results in the following > > DEBUG: pdftops - copying to temp print file "/tmp/034c34e6e4d2f" > > and it never exits. I have to stop with ctrl-c > > > the file is empty. > > ll /tmp/034c34e6e4d2f > -rw------- 1 les wheel 0 10 Sep 08:01 /tmp/034c34e6e4d2f > > And my test file is > > ll test.pdf > -rw-r--r-- 1 les les 30263 10 Sep 07:58 test.pdf > > So what do you suggest I do now? I am not sure exactly what your problem is; however, after the Firefox update, printing now takes forever. I use to be able to click on print and have a document print virtually immediately. Now, I click print and have time to eat breakfast, take a shower and get dressed before the frigging thing prints out. This is definitely NOT a printer problem since the printer is connected via a network to a Windows machine. Clicking on the same document in IE results in the document being printed immediately. Somehow, somewhere, something got seriously broken in Firefox. -- Jerry ✌ jerry+fbsd@seibercom.net Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies or ignored. Do not CC this poster. Please do not ignore the "Reply-To" header. http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
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