Re: [opensuse] creating a PDF from firefox?

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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