[17178] in Athena Bugs
Alex T Prengel: Re: bug with PDF printing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard J. Barbalace)
Tue Sep 14 13:27:49 1999
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To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 13:27:38 -0400
From: "Richard J. Barbalace" <rjbarbal@MIT.EDU>
FYI.
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To: "t. belton" <tbelton@MIT.EDU>
Cc: alexp@MIT.EDU, rjbarbal@MIT.EDU
Subject: Re: bug with PDF printing
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 14 Sep 1999 11:41:34 EDT."
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Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 12:21:14 -0400
From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
Richard Barbalace wrote:
> When trying to print a PDF file in Netscape (after viewing it when
> acrobat reader comes up), the default settings will not print out
> the document. acrobat says it is printing the pages, and no error
> message is given. The print command says something like
> "/usr/bin/lp -c" when it should just read "lpr". I've encountered
> a few users having problems with this in the past couple days.
Todd wrote:
> here is another report of problems with Acrobat and lp. I know lp
>doesn't always do the same things as lpr, and I believe you said that
>Acrobat's defaults are hard to change ... am I remembering that right? Is
>there some other solution here?
In the past, it has been very difficult to change Adobe's printing
command. It has been hard-wired into the binary. The only chance here
for an easy fix is if this is set in some script. I'll look at this as
soon as I can, and change it to lpr if possible- it's been very busy,
plus the entire floor I work on in N42 has been flooded out over the
weekend- we're still in "recovery mode".
In the meantime, lp-style printing is supposed to work- if it's not, please
check with the Athena Release Team who setthings up to work for lp printing.
Alex
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