[17180] in Athena Bugs
Re: Alex T Prengel: Re: bug with PDF printing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Tue Sep 14 20:04:53 1999
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 20:04:46 -0400 (EDT)
Message-Id: <199909150004.UAA01957@contents-vnder-pressvre.mit.edu>
To: "Richard J. Barbalace" <rjbarbal@MIT.EDU>, bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[17178] in Athena Bugs"
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
> 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.
"lp" is supposed to work just fine in the Athena environment.
Can you explain how it was failing? Presumably any such failure
is a bug.
--jhawk
