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. -- Use OpenOffice.org <http://www.openoffice.org> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org