Re: What is xprint?
Neal Lippman(nl@lippman.org) is reported to have said:
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> I am running testing. Today, just after doing an apt-get dist-upgrade to
> get whatever is latest and greatest, I tried to print from Mozilla,
> which failed while tryign to access Xprt.
>
> A little investigation showed that I now have a startup script called
> xprint in /etc/init.d and I seem (now) to be running an Xprint server of
> sorts. I've never needed that before, becuase I am running Cups, and
> just having Mozilla print to my postscript/default printer works fine.
> THe problem is that since I cannot figure out how to set a default
> printer for Mozilla, and the print dialog seems to want the xprint
> server to be the default, things no longer work smoothly.
>
> Since I am runnign Cups without any problems, is there any reason why I
> need to have xprint? Can I just stop it and remove the startup script,
> or even better apt-get remove it? Will Mozilla magically fix itself if I
> do that, or am I borked?
>
> Thanks for any thoughts.
I installed xprt-common and xprt-xprintorg this afternoon after
reading about it. I am also using CUPS and was having problems
printing to PDF files and Xprint was supposed to do that. It sure
does and I find it usefull for that if nothing else, so far.
It does take a bit of setup but once that done I have mor control of
printer selection in mozilla then I had before. I can now print web
pages to pdf files or aa bunch of other printers I have set up in
CUPS.
Reading these two files, and making the changes they suggest, then reloging
in, was all it took to get it working.
/usr/share/doc/xprt-common/README
/usr/share/doc/xprt-common/README.Debian
I have experienced only one problem. I had openoffice1.1Beta working
'before' I installed xprt, now it won't load. Still working on that
glitch.
HTH=Hope This Helps, YMMV=Your Mileage May Vary, HAND=Have A Nice Day
Wayne
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