Re: [partly solved] Re: tw/Leap Firefox printing issues

12 Jan 2021


      On 2021-01-11 23:26:29 Ben T. Fender wrote:
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On Tue, 12 Jan 2021 00:10:46 -0500
Patrick Shanahan  wrote:
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* Ben T. Fender  [01-11-21 23:26]:
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On Tue, 12 Jan 2021 05:14:40 +0100
"Carlos E. R."  wrote:
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On 12/01/2021 03.11, J Leslie Turriff wrote:
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On 2021-01-11 13:28:57 Carlos E. R. wrote:
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On 11/01/2021 18.05, Ben T. Fender wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Jan 2021 09:02:31 +0100
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>>> What about exporting it to pdf and printing it from pdf?
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>> It should be: Print from Firefox to pdf
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> I did that, and then Okular could not print
> the pdf but Document-Viewer could. This is not
> a solution for me though, I don't wanna use
> pdf at all.
Well, even if you don't want to, the Linux print system uses PDF
internally. Meaning, Firefox has to convert to PDF and sends that
to the printer, behind the scenes.
I thought that PostScript is the fundamental output format.
Was.
no proprietaryware should ever be a default
part of Linux, neither explicitly nor implicitly
my 2
PDF stands for the Portable Document Format, used to display documents in
an electronic form independent of the software, hardware or operating
system they are viewed on. Originally developed by Adobe® Systems as a
universally compatible file format based on the PostScript format, it has
become an international de-facto standard for exchanging documents and
information.
In 2008, Adobe relinquished control of PDF development to the ISO
(International Organization for Standardization) and by this PDF became
an “open standard”. The specifications for the current PDF version (2.0)
are documented under ISO 32000-2. ISO is also in charge of updating and
developiqng future versions.
3¢
last time I looked writing pdf format required
adobeware so I blacklisted it then
Not so; on the IBM mainframe systems that I supported we had programs that 
generated PDF documents from text files, written by a third-party software 
company not affiliated with Adobe.  One does need to understand the 
underlying file format, of course.

Leslie
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