Re: postscript-enabled mozilla package anyone?

From: Michael B Allen (mba2000_at_ioplex.com)
Date: 07/07/04

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To: gss+debian@cs.brown.edu

    On Tue, 6 Jul 2004 19:37:31 -0400
    Gregory Seidman <gss+debian@cs.brown.edu> wrote:

    > ...I installed xprt-xprintorg with no difficulty. I then attempted to
    > print and, with absolutely no configuration on my part, it happily found
    > my CUPS printers.

    That's right. Setting up printing via CUPS, lprng, or whatever is entirely
    independant from Xprint. Xprint finds printers exported on the system
    automatically. If lpq reports a printer is available Xprint should
    find it.

    > Furthermore, it still has a file output option which
    > produces Postscript. I think people are overreacting a bit here.

    Actually that's Xprint too. If you print to a file and look at it
    it reads:

    %!PS-Adobe-3.0
    %%Creator: The X Print Server's PostScript DDX (The X.Org Group, release
    6600)
    %%Title: ...

    So you need Xprint setup to print to a file as well.

    > } > As it now stands your choices are A) not print or B) downgrade to
    > } > a version that predates the brain damage.
    > [...]
    >
    > This is just FUD.

    Right the choices are A) not print, B) downgrade or C) install
    xprt-xprintorg. Personally I think people should try C before bitching too
    much.

    Mike 

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