Re: [gentoo-user] can't print from firefox, but CUPS says OK, also poppler

[Marc Joliet <marcec@gmx.de>]

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Am Wed, 22 Apr 2009 12:29:09 -0400
schrieb Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@nyu.edu>:

> At Wed, 22 Apr 2009 12:18:58 -0400 Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@nyu.edu> wrote:
> 
> > For some reason printing from firefox has stopped working.
> > When I ^P or file-->print and select a printer (there are two),
> > the "print" button is greyed out.  With "print to file", the button is
> > live and the pdf file is successfully created
> >
> > I can print via lpr.
> >
> > If, in firefox, I goto localhost:631 (the cups home page on this machine),
> > I can print test pages to either machine.
> >
> > Is there a way I can ask firefox to tell me why the print button is
> > greyed out?
> 
> Some further information.
> Evince has the same situation, "print" is greyed out.
> 
> I have the newest stable poppler/evince installed and recall that
> have upgraded poppler recently.  Should I be downgrading.
> 
> Below is the output of eix -I poppler -o evince
> 
> thanks,
> allan
> 
[snip]

See bug #266678, especially comment #8. A revision bump of cups ought to be
under way.


HTH
-- 
Marc Joliet
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