Re: [gentoo-user] can't print from firefox, but CUPS says OK, also poppler

[Allan Gottlieb]

At Wed, 22 Apr 2009 12:18:58 -0400 Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@×××.edu> wrote:

> For some reason printing from firefox has stopped working.
> When I ^P or file-->print and select a printer (there are two),
> the "print" button is greyed out.  With "print to file", the button is
> live and the pdf file is successfully created
>
> I can print via lpr.
>
> If, in firefox, I goto localhost:631 (the cups home page on this machine),
> I can print test pages to either machine.
>
> Is there a way I can ask firefox to tell me why the print button is
> greyed out?

Some further information.
Evince has the same situation, "print" is greyed out.

I have the newest stable poppler/evince installed and recall that
have upgraded poppler recently.  Should I be downgrading.

Below is the output of eix -I poppler -o evince

thanks,
allan

allan gottlieb # eix -I poppler -o evince
[I] app-text/evince
     Available versions:  2.22.2-r1!t 2.24.2!t {dbus debug djvu doc dvi gnome gnome-keyring nautilus t1lib tiff}
     Installed versions:  2.24.2!t(11:04:44 03/11/09)(dbus doc gnome-keyring tiff -debug -djvu -dvi -nautilus -t1lib)
     Homepage:            http://www.gnome.org/projects/evince/
     Description:         Simple document viewer for GNOME

[I] app-text/poppler
     Available versions:  0.8.7 0.10.4 ~0.10.5 0.10.5-r1 {cjk doc jpeg zlib}
     Installed versions:  0.10.5-r1(16:53:09 04/18/09)(doc)
     Homepage:            http://poppler.freedesktop.org/
     Description:         PDF rendering library based on the xpdf-3.0 code base

[I] app-text/poppler-bindings
     Available versions:  0.8.7 0.10.4 ~0.10.5 0.10.5-r1 {cairo gtk qt3 qt4 test}
     Installed versions:  0.10.5-r1(16:53:53 04/18/09)(cairo gtk -qt3 -qt4 -test)
     Homepage:            http://poppler.freedesktop.org/
     Description:         rendering bindings for GUI toolkits for poppler

[I] app-text/poppler-data
     Available versions:  0.2.1
     Installed versions:  0.2.1(18:35:31 02/26/09)
     Homepage:            http://poppler.freedesktop.org/
     Description:         Data files for poppler to support uncommon encodings without xpdfrc

[I] virtual/poppler
     Available versions:  0.8.7+v 0.10.4+v 0.10.5+v ~0.10.6+v
     Installed versions:  0.10.5+v(16:54:03 04/18/09)
     Homepage:            http://poppler.freedesktop.org/
     Description:         Virtual package, includes packages that contain libpoppler-glib.so

[I] virtual/poppler-glib
     Available versions:  0.8.7+v 0.10.4+v 0.10.5+v ~0.10.6+v {cairo}
     Installed versions:  0.10.5+v(16:54:08 04/18/09)(cairo)
     Homepage:            http://poppler.freedesktop.org/
     Description:         Virtual package, includes packages that contain libpoppler-glib.so

[I] virtual/poppler-utils
     Available versions:  0.8.7+v 0.10.4+v 0.10.5+v ~0.10.6+v {abiword}
     Installed versions:  0.10.5+v(16:53:58 04/18/09)(abiword)
     Homepage:            http://poppler.freedesktop.org/
     Description:         Virtual package, includes packages that contain the psto* utilities

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