Re: Printing / Firefox

From: Duane A. Damiano (duane_at_damiano.name)
Date: 06/26/05

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    Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2005 09:02:24 -0400

     Gregory,

    If you ever figure out how to print with OpenBSD, please tell me.

    A few years ago, I did manage to get OpenBSD 3.4 to print. I posted my
    solution to this newsgroup at that time. I had to download and
    compile the sources of CUPS and EPS-Ghostscript.

    Well, I used 3.4 for a while and then upgraded to 3.6. The same steps that I
    successfully used to get 3.4 to print did not work on 3.6. Recently, I
    tried 3.7 and still no luck.

    There is a CUPS package and it installs okay. But, I think CUPS requires
    EPS Ghostscript and there's no package for that. I tried downloading the
    source, but it would not compile on 3.7. I don't recall the error message
    and I was so fed up by then that I didn't spend much time on it. I again
    asked the newsgroup for help, but all I got was a response from a guy who
    said he was having the same problem!

    I'm mostly a linux user, but I liked the idea of having OpenBSD around as an
    alternative. I don't do a lot of printing, but I do need that capability.
    It's amazing to me that this problem exists in OpenBSD; it was solved in
    linux a long time ago. Don't any of these OpenBSD people print?

    Duane
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