HOWTO: Print to a pdf in Firefox
April 6th, 2007 Mario Hochreiter
Recently I wanted to print a web page to a pdf file. As I am using Firefox as my default web browser in Kubuntu this does not work out of the box like in Konqueror. Following steps are necessary to print from Firefox with kprinter (which is able to print to a pdf):
- Type
about:configin the adress bar of Firefox - In the filter bar type:
print.printer_PostScript/Default.print_command - Double click on the entry and enter the following value in the popup box:
kprinter --stdin
From now on you will get the KPrinter dialog and be able to print to pdf, postscript, etc, and of course to the real printers.
2 Comments Add your own
1. moflicka | July 12th, 2007 at 3:46 am
Thanks for your post, it was the first after a few minutes of googling that explained why I couldn’t print…sadly no one else posted this missing link
from a linux newbie….
2. josh | August 5th, 2007 at 3:42 pm
Thanks for posting this info!
Note that on my (K)Ubuntu 7.04 with firefox 2.0.0.4 the entry was under:
print.postscript.print_command
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