[gentoo-user] evince / firefox will not print to a specific directory

[gentoo-user] evince / firefox will not print to a specific directory

[Joseph]

When I try to print to PDF with evince or firefox it will not print pdf file to a directory I specify only to my home directory.
Does anybody know what to look for? It just happen after recent upgrade.

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Joseph

Re: [gentoo-user] evince / firefox will not print to a specific directory

[Willie]

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That is interesting. I have the exact same problem. Tried to save it to the
desktop and it saved to my home directory.On the second try I typed in the
directory that I wanted to save the file. Instead of "output.pdf", I put
"/home/ill/Desktop/output.pdf".

It's not a fix but it works.


On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 1:43 PM, Joseph <syscon780@gmail.com> wrote:

> When I try to print to PDF with evince or firefox it will not print pdf
> file to a directory I specify only to my home directory.
> Does anybody know what to look for? It just happen after recent upgrade.
>
> --
> Joseph
>
>


-- 

Willie Matthews
matthews.willie@gmail.com

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Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] evince / firefox will not print to a specific directory

[Joseph]

OK I fixed it, it was a problem with gtk+-2.24.17 
upgrade to gtk+-2.24.19
see the bug:
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=474328

--
Joseph

On 08/23/13 17:22, Willie wrote:
>   That is interesting. I have the exact same problem. Tried to save it to
>   the desktop and it saved to my home directory.On the second try I typed
>   in the directory that I wanted to save the file. Instead of
>   "output.pdf", I put "/home/ill/Desktop/output.pdf".
>   It's not a fix but it works.
>
>   On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 1:43 PM, Joseph <[1]syscon780@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>     When I try to print to PDF with evince or firefox it will not print
>     pdf file to a directory I specify only to my home directory.
>     Does anybody know what to look for? It just happen after recent
>     upgrade.
>     --
>     Joseph

Re: [gentoo-user] evince / firefox will not print to a specific directory

[Thomas Mueller]

> That is interesting. I have the exact same problem. Tried to save it to the
> desktop and it saved to my home directory.On the second try I typed in the
> directory that I wanted to save the file. Instead of "output.pdf", I put
> "/home/ill/Desktop/output.pdf".

> It's not a fix but it works.

I think you can use ~ for your home directory.

Thus, if your login name is ill,
~/Desktop/output.pdf

I do that with Firefox and Seamonkey, since I have many subdirectories for different purposes.

I never or hardly ever use ~/Desktop .

I think this works generally in Linux and BSD.


Tom