mac-like printing from website

Charlie Kravetz cjk at teamcharliesangels.com
Thu Apr 23 16:48:02 UTC 2009


On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 15:29:14 +0200
Alain Muls <alain.muls at telenet.be> wrote:

> On Thursday 23 April 2009 14:22:00
> ubuntu-users-request at lists.ubuntu.com wrote:
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > Printing pages from websites wastes a lot of paper (using either
> > > firefox or konqueror). On a Mac printing offers you the
> > > possibility to apply a 'firefox' template which reduced greatly
> > > the number of pages needed. Is it also possible to have a similar
> > > template for a printer in (k)ubuntu?
> >
> > I use a Mac daily, and I'm afraid I don't know what you are
> > referring to.  Can you elaborate a bit more about what this is and
> > how it works?
> >
> > Brian
> 
> Hi
> 
> I do not sit behind my son's Mac, but when you select print you have
> the possibility to open a drop-down box where you can select firefox.
> This will autoscale the webpage to the width of the paper.
> 
> bye/Alain
> 

I don't think that is a Mac thing. I have an Okidata OL600e laser
printer, and that is an option in print, Advanced tab.

I run Xubuntu on a Intel 1.4GHz cpu on an Asus motherboard.

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