Subject: [os2genau_digest] No. 1859
From: Digest <deadmail>
To: "OS/2GenAu Digest"<deadmail>
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2009 00:01:12 EST-10EDT,10,1,0,7200,4,1,0,7200,3600

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Sunday 06 September 2009
 Number  1859
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Subjects for today
 
1  Re:  Good results so far with Firefox v 3.53 : John Angelico" <talldad at kepl dot com dot au>
2  Re:  Good results so far with Firefox v 3.53 : Ed Durrant <edurrant at durrant dot mine dot nu>
3  Re:  Good results so far with Firefox v 3.53 : Voytek Eymont" <voytek at sbt dot net dot au>
4  Re:  Good results so far with Firefox v 3.53 : Voytek Eymont" <voytek at sbt dot net dot au>
5  Re:  Good results so far with Firefox v 3.53 : Nicholas Lysaght <nicholasrf at gmail dot com>
6  Re:  Good results so far with Firefox v 3.53 : Ed Durrant <edurrant at durrant dot mine dot nu>
7  Re:  Good results so far with Firefox v 3.53 : Ed Durrant <edurrant at durrant dot mine dot nu>
8  Re:  Good results so far with Firefox v 3.53 : Ed Durrant <edurrant at durrant dot mine dot nu>
9  Re:  Good results so far with Firefox v 3.53 : Peter Moylan <peter at pmoylan dot org>
10  Re:  Good results so far with Firefox v 3.53 : John Angelico" <talldad at kepl dot com dot au>

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Date:  Sun, 06 Sep 2009 00:13:39 +1000 (AEST)
From:  "John Angelico" <talldad at kepl dot com dot au>
Subject:  Re:  Good results so far with Firefox v 3.53

On Sat, 05 Sep 2009 23:02:50 +1000 Ed Durrant wrote:
>

Hi Ed.

>
>I have no problem with having the feature to write a PDF file however I 
>also want to be able to send a print directly to the printer. This was a 
>problem in the early days of FF 2.x for OS/2  but it was fixed. It 
>hasn't been fixed on FF 3.x.

Yes, see your point. I had forgotten that it happened with v2 also.

>> When I saw that with an earlier FF, I kept it, and it actually prompted me
>> to put PDF "printing" onto my work Windows platform. I use a free version
>> with a redirector and Postscript driver, plus GSView.
>>
>>   
> Is that on the Windoze platform? If that redirector is actually an OS/2 
>program, perhaps the PDF output from FF 3.x could be routed to CUPS so 
>that any CUPS supported printer would be able to print the requested 
>output print?

Yes, 'doze platform. There is an equivalent to RedMon in the Win-sphere. I
will email you from work with the details.

I have a PDF printer set up on OS/2 as well, using PSCRIPT driver, and port
redirection to file. I create a *.ps file which I then read in GSView for
OS/2, and convert to PDF.

Best regards
John Angelico
OS/2 SIG
os2 at melbpc dot org dot au or 
talldad at kepl dot com dot au
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Date:  Sun, 06 Sep 2009 09:04:05 +1000
From:  Ed Durrant <edurrant at durrant dot mine dot nu>
Subject:  Re:  Good results so far with Firefox v 3.53

John Angelico wrote:
> On Sat, 05 Sep 2009 23:02:50 +1000 Ed Durrant wrote:
>   
>
> Hi Ed.
>
>   
>> I have no problem with having the feature to write a PDF file however I 
>> also want to be able to send a print directly to the printer. This was a 
>> problem in the early days of FF 2.x for OS/2  but it was fixed. It 
>> hasn't been fixed on FF 3.x.
>>     
>
> Yes, see your point. I had forgotten that it happened with v2 also.
>
>   
>>> When I saw that with an earlier FF, I kept it, and it actually prompted me
>>> to put PDF "printing" onto my work Windows platform. I use a free version
>>> with a redirector and Postscript driver, plus GSView.
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>> Is that on the Windoze platform? If that redirector is actually an OS/2 
>> program, perhaps the PDF output from FF 3.x could be routed to CUPS so 
>> that any CUPS supported printer would be able to print the requested 
>> output print?
>>     
>
> Yes, 'doze platform. There is an equivalent to RedMon in the Win-sphere. I
> will email you from work with the details.
>
> I have a PDF printer set up on OS/2 as well, using PSCRIPT driver, and port
> redirection to file. I create a *.ps file which I then read in GSView for
> OS/2, and convert to PDF.
>
>   
  Thanks for this. I guess the code will need to work specifically with 
Firefox for what I am considering. Of course if I try to set something 
up, inevitably a new compiler function will become available (I wonder 
if the problem is QT4 related?) and FF/2 v3.x will get fixed making my 
work a waste of time!

 If I can capture the FF PDF Print output and route it to the OS/2 print 
queue which in turn goes to the eCUPS daemon though, it "shouldn't" take 
too much work to set it up ...... (famous last words).
> Best regards
> John Angelico
> OS/2 SIG
> os2 at melbpc dot org dot au or 
> talldad at kepl dot com dot au
> ___________________
> --------------------------------------------------
>  
>  http://www./melbpc/  -  The Melbourne OS/2 SIG

>   

-- 
Cheers/2

Ed

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Warpstock Europe at Stralsund, Germany 12-15 November 2009 http://www.warpstock.eu

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Date:  Sun, 6 Sep 2009 09:38:06 +1000 (EST)
From:  "Voytek Eymont" <voytek at sbt dot net dot au>
Subject:  Re:  Good results so far with Firefox v 3.53

<quote who="Ed Durrant">
> This release (3.53pre - Shintenko) of firefox, seems stable so far on
> eCS 2.0 RC6a. Flash works (using the normal patched plugin) and generally
> it seems to handle all websites well.
>
> Of course it is still crippled by not being able to print directly to a
> physical printer, rather creating PDF files on the desktop, that later can
> be printed.

Ed,

are you saying that FF has a built in PDF output ?

where do I download it ?

-- 
Voytek

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Date:  Sun, 6 Sep 2009 09:39:50 +1000 (EST)
From:  "Voytek Eymont" <voytek at sbt dot net dot au>
Subject:  Re:  Good results so far with Firefox v 3.53

<quote who="John Angelico">
> On Sat, 05 Sep 2009 23:02:50 +1000 Ed Durrant wrote:

> I have a PDF printer set up on OS/2 as well, using PSCRIPT driver, and
> port redirection to file. I create a *.ps file which I then read in GSView
> for OS/2, and convert to PDF.

last time I tried that, the resulting output files were huge, maybe 20x
bigger that windoze created PDF files, is that still the case ?

-- 
Voytek

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Date:  Sun, 6 Sep 2009 10:41:41 +0800
From:  Nicholas Lysaght <nicholasrf at gmail dot com>
Subject:  Re:  Good results so far with Firefox v 3.53

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Date:  Sun, 06 Sep 2009 13:56:31 +1000
From:  Ed Durrant <edurrant at durrant dot mine dot nu>
Subject:  Re:  Good results so far with Firefox v 3.53

Voytek Eymont wrote:
> <quote who="Ed Durrant">
>   
>> This release (3.53pre - Shintenko) of firefox, seems stable so far on
>> eCS 2.0 RC6a. Flash works (using the normal patched plugin) and generally
>> it seems to handle all websites well.
>>
>> Of course it is still crippled by not being able to print directly to a
>> physical printer, rather creating PDF files on the desktop, that later can
>> be printed.
>>     
>
> Ed,
>
> are you saying that FF has a built in PDF output ?
>
> where do I download it ?
>
>
>
>   
Yes all v 3.x versions of FF create a PDF file on the desktop instead of 
printing to a printer (even though you select a particular printer).
http://www.mozilla dot org/ports/os2/

-- 
Cheers/2

Ed

eComStationAustralia podcast RSS feed http://eComStationAustralia.podbean dot com/feed or iTunes
Warpstock Europe at Stralsund, Germany 12-15 November 2009 http://www.warpstock.eu

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Date:  Sun, 06 Sep 2009 13:57:54 +1000
From:  Ed Durrant <edurrant at durrant dot mine dot nu>
Subject:  Re:  Good results so far with Firefox v 3.53

Voytek Eymont wrote:
> <quote who="John Angelico">
>   
>> On Sat, 05 Sep 2009 23:02:50 +1000 Ed Durrant wrote:
>>     
>
>   
>> I have a PDF printer set up on OS/2 as well, using PSCRIPT driver, and
>> port redirection to file. I create a *.ps file which I then read in GSView
>> for OS/2, and convert to PDF.
>>     
>
> last time I tried that, the resulting output files were huge, maybe 20x
> bigger that windoze created PDF files, is that still the case ?
>
>
>
>   
I wouldn't know as I do have this feature yet (don't even know if it 
will be possible). I'd much prefer to have Firefox fixed so that it 
prints directly to a print queue.

-- 
Cheers/2

Ed

eComStationAustralia podcast RSS feed http://eComStationAustralia.podbean dot com/feed or iTunes
Warpstock Europe at Stralsund, Germany 12-15 November 2009 http://www.warpstock.eu

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Date:  Sun, 06 Sep 2009 14:19:05 +1000
From:  Ed Durrant <edurrant at durrant dot mine dot nu>
Subject:  Re:  Good results so far with Firefox v 3.53

Nicholas Lysaght wrote:
> [attachments have been removed]
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>  
>  http://www./melbpc/  -  The Melbourne OS/2 SIG
===
>
>   
No content!

-- 
Cheers/2

Ed

eComStationAustralia podcast RSS feed http://eComStationAustralia.podbean dot com/feed or iTunes
Warpstock Europe at Stralsund, Germany 12-15 November 2009 http://www.warpstock.eu

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Date:  Sun, 06 Sep 2009 14:31:27 +1000
From:  Peter Moylan <peter at pmoylan dot org>
Subject:  Re:  Good results so far with Firefox v 3.53

Ed Durrant wrote:
> Nicholas Lysaght wrote:
>> [attachments have been removed]
>> --------------------------------------------------
>>  
>>  http://www./melbpc/  -  The Melbourne OS/2 SIG
>===
>>
>>   
> No content!
>
Me neither.

-- 
Peter Moylan                          peter at pmoylan dot org
                                      http://www.pmoylan dot org

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Date:  Sun, 06 Sep 2009 23:12:57 +1000 (AEST)
From:  "John Angelico" <talldad at kepl dot com dot au>
Subject:  Re:  Good results so far with Firefox v 3.53

On Sun, 6 Sep 2009 09:39:50 +1000 (EST) Voytek Eymont wrote:
>
>
><quote who="John Angelico">
>> On Sat, 05 Sep 2009 23:02:50 +1000 Ed Durrant wrote:
>
>> I have a PDF printer set up on OS/2 as well, using PSCRIPT driver, and
>> port redirection to file. I create a *.ps file which I then read in GSView
>> for OS/2, and convert to PDF.
>
>last time I tried that, the resulting output files were huge, maybe 20x
>bigger that windoze created PDF files, is that still the case ?
>
>

Nope - very compact.

The .ps files are huge but the convert function in GSView fixes that.

Best regards
John Angelico
OS/2 SIG
os2 at melbpc dot org dot au or 
talldad at kepl dot com dot au
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