Re: Printing PDF from FireFox
On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 21:57:54 -0500, Patrick Wiseman <pwiseman@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 03:08:57 +0100, Josh Hurst <joshhurst@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 14:30:45 -0500, Patrick Wiseman <pwiseman@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 20:15:22 +0100, Josh Hurst <joshhurst@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 14:09:43 -0500, Patrick Wiseman <pwiseman@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 20:00:26 +0100, Bob Alexander <bob@ngi.it> wrote:
> > > > > > Jonas Gall wrote:
> > > > > > > On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 18:56:06 +0100, Bob Alexander <bob@ngi.it> wrote:
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > >>Doh ! I was sure it was there :)
> > > > > > >>
> > > > > > >>What package(s) is my sid machine missing to get a Print to PDF function
> > > > > > >>in my Firefox browser ?
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Xprint has support for printing PDFs - take a look at the xprt-xprintorg package
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Jonas
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Jonas,
> > > > > > I am somewhat worried that xprt will interfere with my CUPS subsystems.
> > > > > > Or am I wrong ?
> > > > >
> > > > > Install cups-pdf and any application which can print to Postscript can
> > > > > print a pdf.
> > > > This is not compatible with Mozilla or firefox.
> > >
> > > Wrong. After installing 'pdf' as a printer in my CUPS system, I now
> > > have a 'Postscript/pdf' option in my drop-down printer list in
> > > Firefox. (This is on a Debian testing system.)
> > It crashes. Search bugzilla.mozilla.org for cups crashers or run
> > valgrind against a mozilla debug build: Heap corruption and you'll
> > crash sooner or later. Just doesn't mean you're crashing always
> > immediately.
>
> I've never experienced a problem. But you are obviously possessed of
> greater experience and knowledge than I.
And I just searched bugzilla.mozilla.org for 'cups', found six (yes
only 6) bugs, _none_ of which was a crash. So stop blowing smoke, OK?
Patrick
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