kprinter and acrobat reader

[Rex Dieter]

Nick THOMPSON wrote:

> On a fast Linux box, when I use "kprinter" as the print command in
> acrobat reader, acroread tends to delete its temporary output file
> before kprinter can call cupsdoprint to send the job. So cupsdoprint
> gives and error of missing file. Is there a way to work around this?
> 
> IIRC, lp has the -c option to take a copy of the file before sending the
> job to get around this problem. My best idea is to write a script that
> copies the file and then calls kprinter. Must be a better way though...?

See
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?idS556

Attached is a backported patch for kde-3.1 that I use.

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Rex A. Dieter                   rdieter at math.unl.edu 
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Department of Mathematics       University of Nebraska Lincoln

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