Acroread8/nspluginwrapper

[Alexander Leidinger]

Quoting Frank Jahnke <jahnke at sonatabio.com> (from Mon, 28 Jan 2008  
08:23:23 -0800):

>
> On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 14:29 +0100, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
>> Did you really specify /usr/local/lpr instead of
>> /usr/local/bin/lpr or /usr/bin/lpr?
>>
>
> Sorry, that was a typo -- I use /usr/bin/lpr, with CUPS controlling the
> printing.  The message is "The specified file 'usr/bin/lpr' does not
> exist" yet

If acroread lists the contents of the directory and searches for lpr,  
it will not work (bad acroread), if it just tries to run /usr/bin/lpr,  
then it should work.

> pinot% ls -l /usr/bin | grep lpr
> l---------   1 root  wheel        18 Apr 13  2007 lpr
> -> /usr/local/bin/lpr
> lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel        19 Jun 16  2007 lprm
> -> /usr/local/bin/lprm
>
> The small shell script does work, but I'm curious why that is required.

See above.

You could try to just put /usr/local/bin/lpr in the acroread config instead.

Bye,
Alexander.

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