xpdf can not print via cups if started from firefox

O. Hartmann ohartman at mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de
Fri Mar 11 06:41:12 UTC 2011


On 03/11/11 01:13, Polytropon wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Mar 2011 11:38:19 +0100, "O. Hartmann"<ohartman at zedat.fu-berlin.de>  wrote:
>> On 03/08/11 16:51, Warren Block wrote:
>>> On Tue, 8 Mar 2011, O. Hartmann wrote:
>>>
>>>> I've got a weird problem here. Very often I download scientific papers
>>>> as pdf from protals and they got opened via firefox3 with the
>>>> configured propper utility, in this case xpdf. In such a case,
>>>> printing is impossible. I hit the print button, a popup shows up with
>>>> the configured CUPS printing queue, but hitting OK doesn't have any
>>>> effect. The funny thing is: when opening the same PDF (it is stored in
>>>> /tmp/) with xpdf by starting xpdf from a terminal, printing on the
>>>> same queue works well.
>>>
>>> In your .xpdfrc, do you specify a full path to the CUPS lpr?
>>
>> I did now and it hasn't any effect.
>
> Maybe you're experiencing a caching problem? I would guess
> that as you stated there is a temporary file, this should
> not happen (in relation to Firefox) there should at least
> be an error message.
>
> Did you try to enter the full command into xpdf's printing
> dialog, e. g. "/usr/local/bin/lpr -P<printer>", just in case
> the .xpdfrc setting hasn't been read upon program start?
>
>
>
Yes, I did, still the same problem. I have the strange feeling that a 
firefox-started xpdf doesn't know anything about CUPS and its printing 
queues. I try to figure out how to log this ...


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