Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1750 mails)

[Wolfgang Rosenauer <wolfgang@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Rajko M. schrieb:
> On Tuesday 30 September 2008 05:44:54 pm Kai Ponte wrote:
> > On Tuesday 30 September 2008 06:42:57 am Ken Schneider wrote:
> > > > No need. You can convert postscript to pdf with a single command:
> > > >
> > > > ~> ps2pdf linux-day-2008.pdf
> > > The users should NOT have to do this if printing was properly programmed
> > > in Firefox.
> > Dropping back to the '80s to use the CLI is always a bad thing, IMO.
> >
> > In any case, it worked fine a few weeks ago. I know I have a new version of
> > firefox, so what did they remove?? ...
>
> openSUSE 11.0 64 bit
> Firefox 3.0.2
>
> It workred in any FF 3.0 since installation. 
> Considering printing I can't recall that I have seen YaST. 
> It just worked as set during installation.
>
> Print to file option in Firefox has 2 radio buttons to select pdf or ps file 
> as a target. 
> If you press pdf it will change default name mozilla.ps to mozilla.pdf, so I 
> change mozilla to something more descriptive and it saves/prints as pdf. 

Exactly. As FF 3 uses the Gnome print dialog and that always(*) has a
PDF option there shouldn't be any issue.

(*) not sure since when and if really in _every_ case a PDF choice is
available

So probably he's using FF2 which never had a builtin function to create
PDFs but only is capable to print to a postscript file or to any
configured cups printer (or another print application using
about:config) but anyway I don't see Firefox' fault here.

Wolfgang

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