[17181] in Athena Bugs
Re: Alex T Prengel: Re: bug with PDF printing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard J. Barbalace)
Tue Sep 14 22:27:36 1999
Message-Id: <199909150227.WAA16058@StarbaseZero.ne.mediaone.net>
To: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
Cc: "Richard J. Barbalace" <rjbarbal@MIT.EDU>, bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of Tue, 14 Sep 1999 20:04:46 -0400.
<199909150004.UAA01957@contents-vnder-pressvre.mit.edu>
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 22:27:22 EDT
From: "Richard J. Barbalace" <rjbarbal@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.
Nothing printed at the printer. No error messages were given.
+ Richard
