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

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.

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