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

Rajko M. schrieb:
On Tuesday 30 September 2008 05:44:54 pm Kai Ponte wrote:
On Tuesday 30 September 2008 06:42:57 am Ken Schneider wrote:
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.
Dropping back to the '80s to use the CLI is always a bad thing, IMO.

In any case, it worked fine a few weeks ago. I know I have a new version of
firefox, so what did they remove?? ...

openSUSE 11.0 64 bit
Firefox 3.0.2

It workred in any FF 3.0 since installation.
Considering printing I can't recall that I have seen YaST.
It just worked as set during installation.

Print to file option in Firefox has 2 radio buttons to select pdf or ps file
as a target.
If you press pdf it will change default name mozilla.ps to mozilla.pdf, so I
change mozilla to something more descriptive and it saves/prints as pdf.

Exactly. As FF 3 uses the Gnome print dialog and that always(*) has a
PDF option there shouldn't be any issue.

(*) not sure since when and if really in _every_ case a PDF choice is
available

So probably he's using FF2 which never had a builtin function to create
PDFs but only is capable to print to a postscript file or to any
configured cups printer (or another print application using
about:config) but anyway I don't see Firefox' fault here.

Wolfgang

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