From: Digest To: "OS/2GenAu Digest" Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2009 00:01:12 EST-10EDT,10,1,0,7200,4,1,0,7200,3600 Subject: [os2genau_digest] No. 1859 Reply-To: X-List-Unsubscribe: www.os2site.com/list/ ************************************************** Sunday 06 September 2009 Number 1859 ************************************************** Subjects for today 1 Re: Good results so far with Firefox v 3.53 : John Angelico" 2 Re: Good results so far with Firefox v 3.53 : Ed Durrant 3 Re: Good results so far with Firefox v 3.53 : Voytek Eymont" 4 Re: Good results so far with Firefox v 3.53 : Voytek Eymont" 5 Re: Good results so far with Firefox v 3.53 : Nicholas Lysaght 6 Re: Good results so far with Firefox v 3.53 : Ed Durrant 7 Re: Good results so far with Firefox v 3.53 : Ed Durrant 8 Re: Good results so far with Firefox v 3.53 : Ed Durrant 9 Re: Good results so far with Firefox v 3.53 : Peter Moylan 10 Re: Good results so far with Firefox v 3.53 : John Angelico" **= Email 1 ==========================** Date: Sun, 06 Sep 2009 00:13:39 +1000 (AEST) From: "John Angelico" 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 ___________________ -------------------------------------------------- http://www./melbpc/ - The Melbourne OS/2 SIG **= Email 2 ==========================** Date: Sun, 06 Sep 2009 09:04:05 +1000 From: Ed Durrant 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 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 -------------------------------------------------- http://www./melbpc/ - The Melbourne OS/2 SIG === **= Email 3 ==========================** Date: Sun, 6 Sep 2009 09:38:06 +1000 (EST) From: "Voytek Eymont" Subject: Re: Good results so far with Firefox v 3.53 > 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 -------------------------------------------------- http://www./melbpc/ - The Melbourne OS/2 SIG **= Email 4 ==========================** Date: Sun, 6 Sep 2009 09:39:50 +1000 (EST) From: "Voytek Eymont" Subject: Re: Good results so far with Firefox v 3.53 > 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 -------------------------------------------------- http://www./melbpc/ - The Melbourne OS/2 SIG **= Email 5 ==========================** Date: Sun, 6 Sep 2009 10:41:41 +0800 From: Nicholas Lysaght Subject: Re: Good results so far with Firefox v 3.53 [attachments have been removed] -------------------------------------------------- http://www./melbpc/ - The Melbourne OS/2 SIG === **= Email 6 ==========================** Date: Sun, 06 Sep 2009 13:56:31 +1000 From: Ed Durrant Subject: Re: Good results so far with Firefox v 3.53 Voytek Eymont wrote: > > >> 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 -------------------------------------------------- http://www./melbpc/ - The Melbourne OS/2 SIG === **= Email 7 ==========================** Date: Sun, 06 Sep 2009 13:57:54 +1000 From: Ed Durrant Subject: Re: Good results so far with Firefox v 3.53 Voytek Eymont wrote: > > >> 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 -------------------------------------------------- http://www./melbpc/ - The Melbourne OS/2 SIG === **= Email 8 ==========================** Date: Sun, 06 Sep 2009 14:19:05 +1000 From: Ed Durrant Subject: Re: Good results so far with Firefox v 3.53 Nicholas Lysaght wrote: > [attachments have been removed] > -------------------------------------------------- > > 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 -------------------------------------------------- http://www./melbpc/ - The Melbourne OS/2 SIG === **= Email 9 ==========================** Date: Sun, 06 Sep 2009 14:31:27 +1000 From: Peter Moylan 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 -------------------------------------------------- http://www./melbpc/ - The Melbourne OS/2 SIG === **= Email 10 ==========================** Date: Sun, 06 Sep 2009 23:12:57 +1000 (AEST) From: "John Angelico" Subject: Re: Good results so far with Firefox v 3.53 On Sun, 6 Sep 2009 09:39:50 +1000 (EST) Voytek Eymont wrote: > > > >> 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 ___________________ -------------------------------------------------- http://www./melbpc/ - The Melbourne OS/2 SIG