[26484] in Athena Bugs
Re: acrobat 7 printing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex T Prengel)
Tue Jul 12 14:04:46 2005
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From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@mit.edu>
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>>> 2. each user gets a local configuration file
>>> ~/.adobe/Acrobat/7.0/Preferences/reader_prefs
>>Why can't we pre-create the file for all users in the wrapper script
>>the first time they run it (i.e. if the file does not exist). Then
>>only the people who used Athena over the summer (small set) will be
>>affected, and everyone else will be happy.
>> Acrobat will initialize to default any settings not specified
>> in the preference file. Just give new users a file consisting of:
>>
>> <</AVGeneral
>> [/c << /printerCommand [/s (/usr/bin/lpr -Zduplex)] >>]
>> >>
>I'm not convinced that this will work until I try it and do some testing;
>I'll look into it next week, after I take some vacation time.
OK, I've tried this and it seems to work OK, so I've implemented it in
the acro_v7.0 locker (I actually set it to /usr/athena/bin/lpr); it should be
user-visible by the next AFS propagation.
Alex
