Printing problems with Mozilla and Firefox on Freebsd 5.3

Steven Lake steven.lake at corecomm.com
Sun Dec 18 09:11:09 PST 2005


At 07:30 PM 12/18/2005 +0300, Andrew P. wrote:
>On 12/18/05, Steven Lake <steven.lake at voyager.net> wrote:
> >         Ok, got a weird one here.  Got cups setup with our
> > new office lan printer and I can print just fine from any
> > program, EXCEPT Mozilla and Firefox.  They go through
> > the motions, but nothing happens.  Nothing shows up in
> > the que or the access or error logs or anything.      Am I
> > missing something?  My research via google into this
> > found me several pages that mentioned something about
> > 'msttcorefonts', but after some playing with this they don't
> > seem to be installable on freebsd.  Any suggestions?
>
>I think x11-fonts/webfonts may be referenced as msttcorefonts
>in other distributions. I can't explain why, but try to install the
>print/gtklp port and change the print command in firefox to
>gtklp.

         Installed webfonts and gtklp and restarted x and no go 
still.  :(  One thing I did notice is that all the others go to a normal 
print window, but the two browsers go to some custom printing screen and 
say something about "postscript/printer_name" instead of the normal KDE 
cups installed printer.  Would that possibly cause part of the issue? 



More information about the freebsd-questions mailing list