Re: i cant print from firefox?

[James Vahn <jvahn@short.circuit.com>]

On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Eric Persson wrote:
> I'm using a debian testing environment on my laptop, and most of the stuff 
> works good now, but printing is still a bit strange.

Cupsys and gimp-print have improved things tremendously, if your printer
is supported... Unfortunately, firefox uses Xprt instead and we need to
deal with it too. I'm under the (possibly mistaken) impression that Xprt
is considered the better of the two. Be aware however, that the default
Xprt shipped with your X server is said to be seriously broken. Debian
provides other packages to replace it.

> I can print pdfs with gpdf, and documents from openoffice, but I cant print 
> anything from firefox, even though I select the same printers in the menus.

Using "PostScript/lpr" in the list works for me. It was provided by the
xprint package (testing/unstable, it might be called xprint-xorg in stable).

Making it the default required some editing of /etc/Xprint/C/print/Xprinters:

        Augment_Printer_List %none%
        # Printer xp_pdf_spooldir_HOME_Xprintjobs
        # Printer xp_ps_spooldir_HOME_Xprintjobs

Hang in there, it'll work eventually! :-)