[Users] E-Mail Printing under FreeBSD

Steve Litt slitt at troubleshooters.com
Fri Dec 7 22:27:44 CET 2012


On Thu, 6 Dec 2012 18:27:10 -0500, edwardp at mcom.com said:
> I have been using FreeBSD on-and-off for the past couple of weeks (by
> swapping hard drives, Linux on one, FreeBSD (as PC-BSD 9.0) on the
> other).
> 
> When I printed an e-mail from the FreeBSD port of Claws, the first
> line at the top of the page was chopped off.
> 
> I'm curious to know if this is a FreeBSD problem or perhaps a problem
> with the Claws port.  The printer is an HP DeskJet 932C, HPLIP (also
> installed) provides full support for this model.
> 
> I was able to (somewhat) solve a printing issue with the SeaMonkey
> (SM) suite, printing web pages by adjusting one of the right margin
> settings in the configuration file, however the URL which should
> normally print at the upper right of the page with SM and Firefox,
> does not print in with the FreeBSD port of SM, so this could be an
> altogether different issue.  
> 
> Thanks in advance..

Hi edwardp,

I have a FreeBSD laptop sitting in the next room. If you tell me the
exact procedure by which you printed your email, I'll try to reproduce
your symptom. By the way, my Claws, on both Linux and BSD, are set to
not render html email, so that might be a diff3erence.

Thanks

SteveT

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