Re: i cant print from firefox?
On 8/26/05, James Vahn <jvahn@short.circuit.com> wrote:
> 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! :-)
Does it mean one has to change config for each app separately?
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