On Tue, Mar 08, 2011 at 09:38:28AM +0100, O. Hartmann 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
Oliver, I haven't got a fix for the above but have you tried using this add on for firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/pdf-download/ Regards, -- Frank Contact info: http://www.shute.org.uk/misc/contact.html
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