Re: Printing from Firefox broken after update.
I am not sure exactly what your problem is; however, after the Firefox update, printing now takes forever. I use to be able to click on print and have a document print virtually immediately. Now, I click print and have time to eat breakfast, take a shower and get dressed before the frigging thing prints out. This is definitely NOT a printer problem since the printer is connected via a network to a Windows machine. Clicking on the same document in IE results in the document being printed immediately. Somehow, somewhere, something got seriously broken in Firefox. I do also get a print if I wait, but it's a one liner saying: Unrecoverable error: rangecheck in setpagedevice Operand stack: true --nostri /Leslie ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Printing from Firefox broken after update.
On Sun, 11 Sep 2011 08:36:05 +0200, Leslie Jensen wrote: I am not sure exactly what your problem is; however, after the Firefox update, printing now takes forever. I use to be able to click on print and have a document print virtually immediately. Now, I click print and have time to eat breakfast, take a shower and get dressed before the frigging thing prints out. This is definitely NOT a printer problem since the printer is connected via a network to a Windows machine. Clicking on the same document in IE results in the document being printed immediately. Somehow, somewhere, something got seriously broken in Firefox. I do also get a print if I wait, but it's a one liner saying: Unrecoverable error: rangecheck in setpagedevice Operand stack: true --nostri Do you get better results when printing to a file (PS) and then sending it directly to the printer (via lpr)? Maybe this problem is comparable to my Opera printing problem (where I could identify Opera being the source of invalid PS data). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Printing from Firefox broken after update.
On windows it delay much longer than usual, yea something change in firefox, affect that Regards -Original Message- From: Leslie Jensen les...@eskk.nu Sender: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2011 08:36:05 To: FreeBSDfreebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Jerryje...@seibercom.net Subject: Re: Printing from Firefox broken after update. I am not sure exactly what your problem is; however, after the Firefox update, printing now takes forever. I use to be able to click on print and have a document print virtually immediately. Now, I click print and have time to eat breakfast, take a shower and get dressed before the frigging thing prints out. This is definitely NOT a printer problem since the printer is connected via a network to a Windows machine. Clicking on the same document in IE results in the document being printed immediately. Somehow, somewhere, something got seriously broken in Firefox. I do also get a print if I wait, but it's a one liner saying: Unrecoverable error: rangecheck in setpagedevice Operand stack: true --nostri /Leslie ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Printing from Firefox broken after update.
On Sun, 11 Sep 2011 08:53:42 +0200 Polytropon articulated: Do you get better results when printing to a file (PS) and then sending it directly to the printer (via lpr)? Maybe this problem is comparable to my Opera printing problem (where I could identify Opera being the source of invalid PS data). Wow, what a waste of time that is. I just use MS Windows when I have to print and avoid all that rigmarole. Firefox use to work correctly; however, it no longer does. At first I thought it was a localized phenomena; however, after checking on several different forums I have concluded that it is far more wide spread than I had originally thought. There have been reports filed against this behavior. If and when they are acted upon is anyone's guess. In the mean time, I just use what is convenient and works reliably without adding an undo burden upon myself. Continual use of broken software effectively makes the end user and enabler; something I have no desire to invest my time in. -- Jerry ✌ jerry+f...@seibercom.net Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies or ignored. Do not CC this poster. Please do not ignore the Reply-To header. http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Printing from Firefox broken after update.
On Sun, 11 Sep 2011 07:21:40 -0400, Jerry wrote: On Sun, 11 Sep 2011 08:53:42 +0200 Polytropon articulated: Do you get better results when printing to a file (PS) and then sending it directly to the printer (via lpr)? Maybe this problem is comparable to my Opera printing problem (where I could identify Opera being the source of invalid PS data). Wow, what a waste of time that is. I just use MS Windows when I have to print and avoid all that rigmarole. Fully agree. I just use a PS printer (networked) and can print directly from any system and any application, no need for any rigmaroles. :-) Firefox use to work correctly; however, it no longer does. At first I thought it was a localized phenomena; however, after checking on several different forums I have concluded that it is far more wide spread than I had originally thought. This seems to be typical for development project that focus on development at any cost, dropping functionality or accidentally losing some. Sadly such behaviour is not limited to Firefox, but also to other programs many users consider essential. There have been reports filed against this behavior. If and when they are acted upon is anyone's guess. In the mean time, I just use what is convenient and works reliably without adding an undo burden upon myself. Well, I always have problems understanding why functionality that has been working perfectly for years stops working, especially when changes that programmers made are in _no_ obvious relation to that functionality... This means: Don't update your software if you want to keep it working. And use a real printer that JUST WORKS. :-) Continual use of broken software effectively makes the end user and enabler; something I have no desire to invest my time in. Also agree. Firefox is not the only web browser available and usable (although it might be the world's favourite one). And finally, it wouldn't be the first product that users abandon due to such lack of... quality? Is this correct? I'd say yes. Coming back on topic: It would be useful to identify Firefox as initiator of the printing problems (if that isn't clear yet), just to make sure that it isn't CUPS (which often is used for its printer filters when using winprinters). That's why involving the Print to file step sounds useful here. In case Firefox produces defective Postscript, that would indicate that it's really a Firefox thing that should be fixed as soon as possible. This step of diagnostics should help to be sure _what_ to fix. By the way, I'm still using Firefox 6.0.1 here and don't have printing problems, even using with CUPS 1.4.6. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Printing from Firefox broken after update.
2011-09-09 22:29, Polytropon skrev: On Fri, 09 Sep 2011 20:56:18 +0200, Leslie Jensen wrote: 2011-09-09 18:17, Rares Aioanei skrev: On Fri, 09 Sep 2011 17:47:16 +0200 Leslie Jensenles...@eskk.nu wrote: /usr/local/libexec/cups/filter/pdftops failed Does the file exist? Yes! -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 20112 9 Sep 09:12 /usr/local/libexec/cups/filter/pdftops Try to run it manually. Take a PDF file and convert it into PS. Add options you might need for paper size. Example: % /usr/local/libexec/cups/filter/pdftops -paper A4 test.pdf and check the PS output. See man pdftops for details. Maybe it's a dependency problem of pdftops... Note that the normal pdftops binary is provided by the xpdf port. Maybe you can try to update this one too? I'm not sure if CUPS's own binary is in some relation to that port, or is it working independently? First I did portmaster -t -f graphics/xpdf Then rehash Tried the following both as root and as myself I had to add a user and number of copies to the command. /usr/local/libexec/cups/filter/pdftops les 1 -paper A4 test.pdf which results in the following DEBUG: pdftops - copying to temp print file /tmp/034c34e6e4d2f and it never exits. I have to stop with ctrl-c the file is empty. ll /tmp/034c34e6e4d2f -rw--- 1 les wheel 0 10 Sep 08:01 /tmp/034c34e6e4d2f And my test file is ll test.pdf -rw-r--r-- 1 les les 30263 10 Sep 07:58 test.pdf So what do you suggest I do now? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Printing from Firefox broken after update.
On Sat, 10 Sep 2011 11:47:59 +0200 Leslie Jensen articulated: 2011-09-09 22:29, Polytropon skrev: On Fri, 09 Sep 2011 20:56:18 +0200, Leslie Jensen wrote: 2011-09-09 18:17, Rares Aioanei skrev: On Fri, 09 Sep 2011 17:47:16 +0200 Leslie Jensenles...@eskk.nu wrote: /usr/local/libexec/cups/filter/pdftops failed Does the file exist? Yes! -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 20112 9 Sep 09:12 /usr/local/libexec/cups/filter/pdftops Try to run it manually. Take a PDF file and convert it into PS. Add options you might need for paper size. Example: % /usr/local/libexec/cups/filter/pdftops -paper A4 test.pdf and check the PS output. See man pdftops for details. Maybe it's a dependency problem of pdftops... Note that the normal pdftops binary is provided by the xpdf port. Maybe you can try to update this one too? I'm not sure if CUPS's own binary is in some relation to that port, or is it working independently? First I did portmaster -t -f graphics/xpdf Then rehash Tried the following both as root and as myself I had to add a user and number of copies to the command. /usr/local/libexec/cups/filter/pdftops les 1 -paper A4 test.pdf which results in the following DEBUG: pdftops - copying to temp print file /tmp/034c34e6e4d2f and it never exits. I have to stop with ctrl-c the file is empty. ll /tmp/034c34e6e4d2f -rw--- 1 les wheel 0 10 Sep 08:01 /tmp/034c34e6e4d2f And my test file is ll test.pdf -rw-r--r-- 1 les les 30263 10 Sep 07:58 test.pdf So what do you suggest I do now? I am not sure exactly what your problem is; however, after the Firefox update, printing now takes forever. I use to be able to click on print and have a document print virtually immediately. Now, I click print and have time to eat breakfast, take a shower and get dressed before the frigging thing prints out. This is definitely NOT a printer problem since the printer is connected via a network to a Windows machine. Clicking on the same document in IE results in the document being printed immediately. Somehow, somewhere, something got seriously broken in Firefox. -- Jerry ✌ jerry+f...@seibercom.net Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies or ignored. Do not CC this poster. Please do not ignore the Reply-To header. http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Printing from Firefox broken after update.
Since a while back I've had a problem with printing from Firefox. I get this error in CUPS when I try to print. /usr/local/libexec/cups/filter/pdftops failed I have done the following: portmaster -t -f print/cups portmaster -t -f www/firefox But it has not helped. I would like some help to identify the problem Thanks /Leslie ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Printing from Firefox broken after update.
On Fri, 09 Sep 2011 17:47:16 +0200 Leslie Jensen les...@eskk.nu wrote: /usr/local/libexec/cups/filter/pdftops failed Does the file exist? -- Rares Aioanei ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Printing from Firefox broken after update.
2011-09-09 18:17, Rares Aioanei skrev: On Fri, 09 Sep 2011 17:47:16 +0200 Leslie Jensenles...@eskk.nu wrote: /usr/local/libexec/cups/filter/pdftops failed Does the file exist? Yes! -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 20112 9 Sep 09:12 /usr/local/libexec/cups/filter/pdftops ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Printing from Firefox broken after update.
On Fri, 09 Sep 2011 20:56:18 +0200, Leslie Jensen wrote: 2011-09-09 18:17, Rares Aioanei skrev: On Fri, 09 Sep 2011 17:47:16 +0200 Leslie Jensenles...@eskk.nu wrote: /usr/local/libexec/cups/filter/pdftops failed Does the file exist? Yes! -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 20112 9 Sep 09:12 /usr/local/libexec/cups/filter/pdftops Try to run it manually. Take a PDF file and convert it into PS. Add options you might need for paper size. Example: % /usr/local/libexec/cups/filter/pdftops -paper A4 test.pdf and check the PS output. See man pdftops for details. Maybe it's a dependency problem of pdftops... Note that the normal pdftops binary is provided by the xpdf port. Maybe you can try to update this one too? I'm not sure if CUPS's own binary is in some relation to that port, or is it working independently? -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
