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Re: debathena pdf reader failed to print
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Khusid)
Sun Mar 8 23:16:18 2009
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Date: Sun, 08 Mar 2009 23:14:46 -0400
From: Mike Khusid <mkhusid@MIT.EDU>
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Acroread is available in medibuntu repositories and it's clearly the
better of the pdf readers available for Linux. Obviously, it is not a
GPL software which automatically excludes it from regular Ubuntu
repositories. On the other hand, acroread was available as the default
PDF reader for Athena 9 (hmm haven't checked that in a while but I think
I am right).
Just a thought. Don't know how hard/how much disruption it would be to
set Acroread as default for debathena.
Mike
P.S. Still waiting for a resolution of the flash in Firefox bug to make
the workstations usable.
Adam Seering wrote:
> I had a PDF just yesterday afternoon that exhibited symptoms matching
> this description (document won't print; no print-server log of anyone
> trying to print it, Evince just refuses to print it). The issue was
> on stock Ubuntu (and the document wasn't mine); if I can reproduce on
> Athena 10 and get permission, I'll send along details.
>
> I've actually found Evince to be a fairly buggy program, in certain
> ways. I think I reported a similar bug or two quite a while back to
> the SIPB DebAthena folks; I don't recall how that ended up getting
> resolved.
>
> I've also seen Evince randomly refuse to open specific PDF's, though
> this may have been fixed more recently?.
>
> Adam
>
>
> On 3/8/09 5:15 PM, Evan Broder wrote:
>> Hmm...I took a look at cups.mit.edu's logs. I don't see anything from
>> kkuhn, but I do see other jobs to homer.
>>
>> Can anybody else reproduce with evince?
>>
>> - Evan
>>
>> Kristin Kuhn wrote:
>>> i couldn't print to athena printer homer via debathena
>>> from the pdf reader
>>> it worked on regular athena
>>>
>>> just...fyi
>>>
>>> thanks,
>>> kristin
>>>
>>
>
