Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1750 mails)

[James Knott <james.knott@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Ken Schneider wrote:
> Carlos E. R. pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
>   
> > On Monday 2008-09-29 at 19:31 -0700, Kai Ponte wrote:
> >
> >     
> > > Summfing broke:
> > >       
> > > I often print files from Firefox to PDF. I have been doing this for
> > > some time
> > > and on a regular basis (receipts for registration and whatnot) on my
> > > current
> > > system - openSUSE 10.3/KDE.
> > >       
> > > I went to print - of all things - a registration for LinuxDay 2008.
> > > (http://www.novell.com/linux/linuxday/register.html)
> > >       
> > > I no longer have the print-to-file option that I did with the option
> > > to select
> > > PDF or Postscript.
> > >       
> > I didn't know there was such a possibility, I have always printed to
> > postscript file. I think you can select what interface or program comes
> > up when you say "print" in firefox. You can see the configuration going
> > to "about:config", and searching for print. Some people set "kprinter"
> > here. Or you can set a system printer that instead prints to a PDF file.
> > I think I saw it some days back in cups somewhere :-? Perhaps it was in
> > Yast, but it locked when I tried. It has been busy for half an hour
> > building a printers database, and I killed it. :-(
> >     
>
> YaST does not support this any longer. The description on the left says to
> pick "Other" but the choice is not available. Changing any printer
> settings in "about:config" to kprinter does not work as well. If the devs
> want to make it easier for the user then allow the selection of ANY
> printer that is setup in cups.
>   
> > 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.
>
>   
Perhaps I'm missing something, but Firefox has a print to PDF option, at
least in v3.01.

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