Gregory Seidman wrote:
On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 12:30:48AM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote: } On (06/07/04 17:26), Brad Sims wrote: } > On Tuesday 06 July 2004 1:07 pm, Thomas Winischhofer wrote:} > > Since I am not willing to configure my printers a third time with that } > > crappy Xprint stuff (why the heck do we have CUPS including easy setup, } > > PPD support, KDE/GNOME integration, etc etc etc etc), does anyone } > > provide postscript-enabled xprint-disabled mozilla packages? } } Well in ppc xprint is broken (it crashes both Mozilla and Firefox) - I} ended up removing both packages and installing Firefox 0.8-8 which } prints postscript through cups and just works ;) If xprint is broken, that's bad. However... [...] } configuring xprint seems to be a major project/hack. [...] ...I installed xprt-xprintorg with no difficulty. I then attempted to print and, with absolutely no configuration on my part, it happily found my CUPS printers. Furthermore, it still has a file output option which produces Postscript. I think people are overreacting a bit here.
Then you are lucky. I tried it out, and it printed out 1/4 size in the top left quarter of the page. Hmm, that's not good. So I opened up print properties and noticed that the paper size was set to something wierd instead of /etc/papersize. And all the paper sizes were in mm for some reason, so I fired up a calculator and figured out that I wanted na-letter and tried to keep it from randomly resetting itself to iso-a4, but it still printed out 1/4 size. So I fired up querybts, and found a pointer to a FAQ which said that I was using the wrong DPI which didn't make sense to me, but apparently changing the DPI to 600 in /etc/Xprint/C/print/attributes/document would fix the problem[a hack]. My other choice was to write a model_config for my printer that specified that it only liked 600 DPI[a major project]. So I don't think people are overreacting too much.
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