acroread not seeing printers
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From: John A. Sullivan III on 15 Apr 2010 10:00 On Thu, 2010-04-15 at 07:25 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2010-04-15 04:56, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > > Hello, all. We've installed acroread 8.1.7-0.1 from debian-multimedia. > > It is not seeing any of the printers on our cups print server. It just > > shows the custom lpr printer. How do we get it to see our printers like > > all the other applications in our KDE setup do? We are running Lenny + > > backports. Thanks - John > > > > Semi-OT from your question, but v8.1.7 is *really* old. Make that > really *REALLY* old. If you're running Stable and that's what's in > the Stable repos, then remove it an go directly to adobe to get the > latest version. <snip> I thought about doing that but it looks like the only deb is a 32 bit one and we are running 64 bit :( -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1271339566.4177.19.camel(a)Family.pacifera.com
From: John A. Sullivan III on 15 Apr 2010 10:00 On Thu, 2010-04-15 at 13:05 +0000, Camaleón wrote: > On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 07:40:47 -0400, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > > > On Thu, 2010-04-15 at 10:35 +0000, Camaleón wrote: > > >> Mmmm, IIRC you have to leave the default command as is (/usr/bin/lpr) > >> and select a default printer in KDE. > >> > >> Acrobat should print for the default printer. > >> > > While googling around, I did see a page which suggested I should be able > > to see my printers > > (http://blogs.adobe.com/acroread/2009/06/ > printing_with_adobe_reader_the.html). > > Mmmm, that article says something about "env" variables: > > *** > Environment Variables > > Make sure that LID_LIBRARY_PATH points to the location for libcups and > also CUPS lp and lpr are in PATH. > > When you invoke the print dialog using Control+P, all the printers > configured show up in the Printer Name dropdown. > *** > > I'm not sure how to check this in Debian, maybe someone else can give you > a hint on this :-) <snip> Thanks. I tried setting LID_LIBRARY_PATH and I know the binaries are in the path but it didn't help :( -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1271339453.4177.17.camel(a)Family.pacifera.com
From: Wayne on 15 Apr 2010 10:10 John A. Sullivan III wrote: > On Thu, 2010-04-15 at 07:25 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 2010-04-15 04:56, John A. Sullivan III wrote: >>> Hello, all. We've installed acroread 8.1.7-0.1 from debian-multimedia. >>> It is not seeing any of the printers on our cups print server. It just >>> shows the custom lpr printer. How do we get it to see our printers like >>> all the other applications in our KDE setup do? We are running Lenny + >>> backports. Thanks - John >>> >> Semi-OT from your question, but v8.1.7 is *really* old. Make that >> really *REALLY* old. If you're running Stable and that's what's in >> the Stable repos, then remove it an go directly to adobe to get the >> latest version. > <snip> > I thought about doing that but it looks like the only deb is a 32 bit > one and we are running 64 bit :( > > Acroread has not worked on my amd64 box in over 4 months. You might want to try the epdfview package. Othen then not being able to reverse print, it is as good as acroread *was*. Wayne -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4BC71DEA.6040702(a)gmail.com
From: Alan Ianson on 15 Apr 2010 10:10 On Thu, 2010-04-15 at 05:56 -0400, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > Hello, all. We've installed acroread 8.1.7-0.1 from debian-multimedia. > It is not seeing any of the printers on our cups print server. It just > shows the custom lpr printer. How do we get it to see our printers like > all the other applications in our KDE setup do? We are running Lenny + > backports. Thanks - John > > Do you have cups-bsd installed? I'm not sure but acroread may need that. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1271340265.3293.0.camel(a)debian.ok.shawcable.net
From: Brad Rogers on 15 Apr 2010 10:30
On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 10:08:42 -0400 Wayne <linuxtwo(a)gmail.com> wrote: Hello Wayne, > Acroread has not worked on my amd64 box in over 4 months. Stable, testing or Sid? I ask since it works here (amd64) in testing. Version of acroread is 9.3.1 -- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly obvious is / _)rad never immediately apparent" Well I don't want you to think I'm being obscene Fish - The Damned |