forwarded 344401 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=272670
thanks
This bug appears to be this upstream bug, and contains some of the
same advice as below.
* Jan Willem Stumpel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Printing in firefox (Debian/1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.1-2) is 'hosed' with
lprng too, so
Printing in firefox (Debian/1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.1-2) is 'hosed' with
lprng too, so this is not CUPS-specific.
It is interesting to see how exactly it is hosed. The following
results explain some of the conflicting reports:
Test A.
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1. Remove prefs.js from the firefox default directory.
2.
I found that removing prefs.js from the default profile causes firefox
to probe for printer information. Now the printer works and the print
dialog has many more options then before :-)
Rafael
I can confirm the problem with the CUPS printer. The printer properties
are listed there, including my paper setting of iso-A4. But when I try
to print to file with it, firefox 1.5 complains, saying There was a
problem printing because the paper size you specified is not supported
by your
Package: firefox
Version: 1.5.dfsg-2
Severity: important
Firefox is one step ahead on the road of getting printing completely wrong.
Now, it pops up a dialog which supposedly should get the printer's profile
from CUPS, but screws that up. Royally. And I cannot even fix this dumbass
software by
severity 344401 grave
retitle 344401 firefox: all printing support broken
thanks
It gets better and better. I tried various combinations, and here's what I
found:
1. xprint usually lets one change paper size and still works, but if you try
to print to file, you're likely to get something like
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