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On 04/18/13 17:25, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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>On 18/04/2013 14:34, Hartmut Figge wrote: |
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>> Stroller: |
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>>> On 18 April 2013, at 02:12, Joseph wrote: |
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>>>> I have uninstalled cups-pdf and when I go any program "print" there is still option: "Print to file" except that now 'Save to folder" by default is empty field, before if I remember was a user home directory. |
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>>> Well, I would have assumed that cups-pdf would be necessary for printing to PDF, but I would like to see a screenshot of this "default empty field". |
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>> I have not installed cups-pdf and don't use evince for printing. But i |
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>> have tested the problem. After pressing File->Print... this window opens |
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>> http://www.triffids.de/pub/screenshot/ev130418.png |
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>> Pressing 'Print' in this window results in the the error window unless |
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>> the field 'Name:' with the prefilled value output.pdf is deleted and |
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>> manually replaced by e.g. output.pdf. *g* |
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>The console error is regarding invalid UTF-8 strings in filenames. |
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>I'm betting the cause is idiotic filename munging by evince or one of |
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>the lower libraries involved, which makes it a bug. |
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>Alan McKinnon |
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>alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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SOLVED! |
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x11-libs/gtk+-2.24.16 has bugs I dowgraded to x11-libs/gtk+-2.24.12 |
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and both Firefox and evince can print to pdf to any direcotry. |
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Joseph |