mac-like printing from website

Brian McKee brian.mckee at gmail.com
Thu Apr 23 16:43:59 UTC 2009


On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 9:29 AM, 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?

> 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.

Aha!  The light dawns.  Thanks Alain!

As Preston pointed out - it's the 'options' tab in Gnome.

For those following along at home - see

http://skitch.com/brian.mckee/bc343/print
for the Mac

http://skitch.com/brian.mckee/bc34t/parallels-desktop
for Hardy - Gnome

Brian




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