[gentoo-user] Printer configuration for Flash

[Willie Wong]

Hum, does anyway know how to set up the printer configuration for the
Macromedia Flash plugin? 

Someone wrote a nifty flash page from which he offered a print button
to print the content generated. Unfortunately, it seems to only want
to send the job to lpr, without an option to print to file. Right
clicking on the flash widget doesn't help, since the Setup option
isn't very well done. 

Two problems are encountered:

  1) I don't have a printer on this box. cupsd was left over from a
  long time ago when I did. So lpr really wouldn't do any good. It
  would be nice if I could print to file and copy it to be printed
  elsewhere. 

  2) Even if I do have a printer, the print command still won't work,
  since there kept popping up an error:
    
    lpr: error - unknown option ''!

  I assume there was an environmental variable the plugin is reading,
  possibly in trying to determine which printer to print to, and that
  included passing a single-quote enclosed string to lpr....

Temporarily I have the problem "solved" in a very non-elegant way: I
replaced /usr/bin/lpr with a stub entry that is basically a
shellscript that calls 'cat' and dumps the output to a file in /tmp

But I hope there is a better solution...

Thanks, 

W
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