[opensuse] creating a PDF from firefox?
All, RE: Opensuse 10.2 as my desktop As you can see I use gmail for my e-mail system. I just sent an e-mail that I want to save on my local disk. Gmail does not offer a way to do that I know of, so I thought I would print the e-mail to a PDF. I was kindly informed of the "kprinter" option in DIA a couple weeks ago that allowed me to select a PDF printer. I don't see a similar way to invoke kprinter from firefox. Is there a magic incantation that I'm missing so far? Is there another way to get firefox to create a pdf? Thanks Greg -- Greg Freemyer Litigation Triage Solutions Specialist http://www.linkedin.com/in/gregfreemyer The Norcross Group The Intersection of Evidence & Technology http://www.norcrossgroup.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Im interested in this as well. I think it was suggested to install cups-pdf I looked at http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/feature/17636.html for help and installed the cups-pdf debian based repository http://benjiweber.co.uk:8080/webpin/index.jsp?distro=openSUSE_102&searchTerm=cups-pdf but didnt have the patience to read throught the whole 'coolsolution'. Maybe you might have better luck. Razi Khaja On 8/30/07, Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer@gmail.com> wrote:
All,
RE: Opensuse 10.2 as my desktop
As you can see I use gmail for my e-mail system.
I just sent an e-mail that I want to save on my local disk. Gmail does not offer a way to do that I know of, so I thought I would print the e-mail to a PDF.
I was kindly informed of the "kprinter" option in DIA a couple weeks ago that allowed me to select a PDF printer. I don't see a similar way to invoke kprinter from firefox.
Is there a magic incantation that I'm missing so far?
Is there another way to get firefox to create a pdf?
Thanks Greg -- Greg Freemyer Litigation Triage Solutions Specialist http://www.linkedin.com/in/gregfreemyer
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On Thu, 2007-08-30 at 19:22 -0400, Razi Khaja wrote:
Im interested in this as well. I think it was suggested to install cups-pdf
I looked at http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/feature/17636.html for help
and installed the cups-pdf debian based repository http://benjiweber.co.uk:8080/webpin/index.jsp?distro=openSUSE_102&searchTerm=cups-pdf
but didnt have the patience to read throught the whole 'coolsolution'.
Maybe you might have better luck. Razi Khaja
1. Click on the printer icon 2. Properties 3. For the print command use kprinter 4. Click OK 5. Click on print All Done. It will now use kprinter for the printer. Ken -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
ctrl+p, print to ps file, then run ps2pdf14 (provided by ghostscript-library rpm ) On 8/30/07, Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer@gmail.com> wrote:
All,
RE: Opensuse 10.2 as my desktop
As you can see I use gmail for my e-mail system.
I just sent an e-mail that I want to save on my local disk. Gmail does not offer a way to do that I know of, so I thought I would print the e-mail to a PDF.
I was kindly informed of the "kprinter" option in DIA a couple weeks ago that allowed me to select a PDF printer. I don't see a similar way to invoke kprinter from firefox.
Is there a magic incantation that I'm missing so far?
Is there another way to get firefox to create a pdf?
Thanks Greg -- Greg Freemyer Litigation Triage Solutions Specialist http://www.linkedin.com/in/gregfreemyer
The Norcross Group The Intersection of Evidence & Technology http://www.norcrossgroup.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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On Thursday 30 August 2007 16:34, Druid wrote:
ctrl+p, print to ps file, then run ps2pdf14 (provided by ghostscript-library rpm )
Where's teh ps2pdf14 icon? -- kai ponte www.perfectreign.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On 8/30/07, Kai Ponte <kai@perfectreign.com> wrote:
On Thursday 30 August 2007 16:34, Druid wrote:
ctrl+p, print to ps file, then run ps2pdf14 (provided by ghostscript-library rpm )
Where's teh ps2pdf14 icon?
whats an icon? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
* Druid <marcio.ferreira@gmail.com> [08-30-07 19:58]:
On 8/30/07, Kai Ponte <kai@perfectreign.com> wrote:
On Thursday 30 August 2007 16:34, Druid wrote:
ctrl+p, print to ps file, then run ps2pdf14 (provided by ghostscript-library rpm )
Where's teh ps2pdf14 icon?
whats an icon?
a pointee/clickee thingee. Won't fit on the cl. -- Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA HOG # US1244711 http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://counter.li.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Thursday 30 August 2007 16:52, Druid wrote:
On 8/30/07, Kai Ponte <kai@perfectreign.com> wrote:
On Thursday 30 August 2007 16:34, Druid wrote:
ctrl+p, print to ps file, then run ps2pdf14 (provided by ghostscript-library rpm )
Where's teh ps2pdf14 icon?
whats an icon?
touche! -- kai ponte www.perfectreign.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Thursday 30 August 2007 16:03, Greg Freemyer wrote:
RE: Opensuse 10.2 as my desktop
As you can see I use gmail for my e-mail system.
I just sent an e-mail that I want to save on my local disk. Gmail does not offer a way to do that I know of, so I thought I would print the e-mail to a PDF.
I was kindly informed of the "kprinter" option in DIA a couple weeks ago that allowed me to select a PDF printer. I don't see a similar way to invoke kprinter from firefox.
Is there a magic incantation that I'm missing so far?
Is there another way to get firefox to create a pdf? It is pretty simple.
I WISH Firefox were more integrated with KDE (email, printing, file open/save dialogs) but... ...anyway, what you want to do is add a PDF printer to KDE. Geeko > Configure Desktp > Peripherals > Printers I have Print To File (PDF) in there. When printing from Firefox, I select kprinter as my default printer in Firefox. This is copied from a KUbuntu forum post. You have to write about:config in the address bar and change here the print.printer_PostScript/default.print_command to kprinter --stdin. For KPrinter to work, you have to choose Postscript/default (leaving "Print to file" unchecked) and then click the Print button. At this point you will get the KPrinter dialog and be able to print to pdf, postscript, etc, and of course to the real printers. It is possible to suppress the print dialog so that it looks like it's printing seamlessly via KPrinter by setting the boolean print.always_print_silent to true in about:config. If this option is missing, simply add it. print.printer_PostScript/Default.print_command kprinter --stdin print.always_print_silent true -- kai ponte www.perfectreign.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
All, Of the various solutions proposed, I vote the below from Kai the cleanest. By using the print.printer_PostScript/Default.print_command kprinter --stdin print.always_print_silent true variables, it causes kprinter to be displayed as the first print dialog box each time. So after you set it up, you have a very clean integration of firefox printing with KDE. Thanks greg On 8/30/07, Kai Ponte <kai@perfectreign.com> wrote:
On Thursday 30 August 2007 16:03, Greg Freemyer wrote:
RE: Opensuse 10.2 as my desktop
As you can see I use gmail for my e-mail system.
I just sent an e-mail that I want to save on my local disk. Gmail does not offer a way to do that I know of, so I thought I would print the e-mail to a PDF.
I was kindly informed of the "kprinter" option in DIA a couple weeks ago that allowed me to select a PDF printer. I don't see a similar way to invoke kprinter from firefox.
Is there a magic incantation that I'm missing so far?
Is there another way to get firefox to create a pdf? It is pretty simple.
I WISH Firefox were more integrated with KDE (email, printing, file open/save dialogs) but...
...anyway, what you want to do is add a PDF printer to KDE.
Geeko > Configure Desktp > Peripherals > Printers
I have Print To File (PDF) in there.
When printing from Firefox, I select kprinter as my default printer in Firefox.
This is copied from a KUbuntu forum post.
You have to write about:config in the address bar and change here the print.printer_PostScript/default.print_command to kprinter --stdin.
For KPrinter to work, you have to choose Postscript/default (leaving "Print to file" unchecked) and then click the Print button.
At this point you will get the KPrinter dialog and be able to print to pdf, postscript, etc, and of course to the real printers.
It is possible to suppress the print dialog so that it looks like it's printing seamlessly via KPrinter by setting the boolean print.always_print_silent to true in about:config.
If this option is missing, simply add it.
print.printer_PostScript/Default.print_command kprinter --stdin print.always_print_silent true
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* Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer@gmail.com> [08-30-07 19:06]:
Is there another way to get firefox to create a pdf?
firefox about:config filter: print.print_printer double click change value from CUPS/.... to kprinter -- Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA HOG # US1244711 http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://counter.li.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Solutions galore. I'll try some of them tomorrow. On 8/30/07, Patrick Shanahan <ptilopteri@gmail.com> wrote:
* Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer@gmail.com> [08-30-07 19:06]:
Is there another way to get firefox to create a pdf?
firefox about:config
filter: print.print_printer double click change value from CUPS/.... to kprinter
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On Thursday 30 August 2007 11:17:35 pm Greg Freemyer wrote:
Solutions galore.
I'll try some of them tomorrow.
On 8/30/07, Patrick Shanahan <ptilopteri@gmail.com> wrote:
* Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer@gmail.com> [08-30-07 19:06]:
Is there another way to get firefox to create a pdf?
firefox about:config
filter: print.print_printer double click change value from CUPS/.... to kprinter
-- Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA HOG # US1244711 http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://counter.li.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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If you don't mind losing some of the features that Gmail has to offer I think Thunderbird 2.0 has support with Gmail. I not to sure though, its been a while sense I used Thunderbird.
Greg Freemyer wrote:
All,
RE: Opensuse 10.2 as my desktop
As you can see I use gmail for my e-mail system.
I just sent an e-mail that I want to save on my local disk. Gmail does not offer a way to do that I know of, so I thought I would print the e-mail to a PDF.
I was kindly informed of the "kprinter" option in DIA a couple weeks ago that allowed me to select a PDF printer. I don't see a similar way to invoke kprinter from firefox.
Is there a magic incantation that I'm missing so far?
Is there another way to get firefox to create a pdf?
Thanks Greg
When you print in Firefox, make sure the printer selected is Postscript/default. Then, click on properties and set the print command to "kprinter --stdin". -- Use OpenOffice.org <http://www.openoffice.org> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Friday 31 August 2007 01:03:51 wrote Greg Freemyer:
All,
RE: Opensuse 10.2 as my desktop
As you can see I use gmail for my e-mail system.
I just sent an e-mail that I want to save on my local disk. Gmail does not offer a way to do that I know of, so I thought I would print the e-mail to a PDF.
I was kindly informed of the "kprinter" option in DIA a couple weeks ago that allowed me to select a PDF printer. I don't see a similar way to invoke kprinter from firefox.
Is there a magic incantation that I'm missing so far?
Is there another way to get firefox to create a pdf?
simply configure "kprinter" as print command in firefox, means replace "lpr" against it. bye adrian -- Adrian Schroeter SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) email: adrian@suse.de -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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