Re: [opensuse] Printing to PDF from Firefox - Something Broke

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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. :-(


I went ahead and selected the Print to File button next to the drop-down list
of printers in the print dialog box.

I was given simply the option of a name. I went ahead and selected myname.pdf.
I ended up with a useless postscript file.

It isn't useless X-)

What happened? What did I mess up?

...
I've included the messed up file.

:-)

No need. You can convert postscript to pdf with a single command:

~> ps2pdf linux-day-2008.pdf

done :-)
I have done it that way for years.
Or, you can keep the ps file and use it directly (view with gv, for instance).

- -- Cheers,
Carlos E. R.

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