Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1750 mails)

[Wolfgang Rosenauer <wolfgang@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Carlos E. R. schrieb:
> On Wednesday 2008-10-01 at 07:57 +0200, Wolfgang Rosenauer wrote:
>
> > 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
>
> This exactly is what I get. At least it has the gnome feeling, but there
> is no about box to confirm. And print to file has the radio button to
> select pdf.
>
> > 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.
>
> No, he is using FF3, but perhaps he has changed the default about:config
> settings. It was the usual trick previously.
>
> What happens if the user did not install gnome? Maybe it falls back to
> another default?

No. Gnome's (have to say Gtk's) print dialog is incorporated in Gtk 2.10
and upwards.
Firefox won't run at all without or with an older version of Gtk just
because of that printing thing.

Wolfgang
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