-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 07/06/08 09:59, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: > On 06 Jul 2008, Anthony Campbell wrote: >> On 05 Jul 2008, Ron Johnson wrote: >>> What is the reason that you don't install CUPS? > >> 1. because lpr/lpd and magicfilter work perfectly for me. >> 2. because CUPS offers no advantage for me. >> 3. because when I did use it in the past my output was slightly >> worse than with my existing setup. >> 4. because, in the light of the above, using it will involve me >> in a fair amount of work for no clear benefit and possibly a >> worse output. > > You are right IMHO; it is a bug, not just the Inevitable March Of > Progress. It seems clear that the Firefox developers did not > intend to drop lpr support: > > - they don't say anything about such a change in the Release > Notes. > - in about:config there are still numerous references to > PostScript/Default, lpr., etc. > - it seems such a silly thing to remove; very little code can be > saved by this. > > Surely it is a bug. From this item on bugzilla: > > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=430818 > > it seems that until a few days before the Firefox 3 release (which > took place on June 17th) Firefox could not print *at all*. It had
That's weird. Sid only has -rc_2_ and I can print just fine. Unless Eric Dorland (the IW maintainer) fixed the code himself. > a totally empty print dialog box. It seems they could fix it to > some extent before the release date, but not completely. > Unfortunate for those who have used lpr to complete satisfaction > for so long (and not only for directly-connected printers BTW). > > There are lots of other bugs in the new Firefox/Iceweasel. A > particularly serious one (all resized images became black > rectangles) apparently was quietly fixed a few days ago. Where did you read this? I resize pictures, and they don't turn into black rectangles. Unless what I'm thinking of isn't what "they" are talking about... > I expect > the same will happen with the lpr bug. In the meantime I'll just > soldier on with the "inoticoming" trick. I refuse to change to cups! - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA "Kittens give Morbo gas. In lighter news, the city of New New York is doomed." -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkhw7gwACgkQS9HxQb37XmdXBgCgyusapBWiUZ+QRiT5vkxOMK+C fDEAoIKRopbnfnd8cSQ0noeJKVfufJvu =OpoV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]