On 7/24/2012 6:18 PM David E. Ross submitted the following: > On 7/24/12 1:03 PM, Ed wrote: >> On 7/24/2012 2:31 PM Ed submitted the following: >>> On 7/24/2012 1:32 PM Ed submitted the following: >>>> On 7/24/2012 11:08 AM Jay Garcia submitted the following: >>> >>> < D E L E T E D > >>> >>>>> In your OS printers section, click on your HP Printer and select >>>>> "Properties". Set it as default. Then, in any OTHER application such as >>>>> Word, etc. bring up a document and print. Does it use the HP default >>>>> printer? Probably so. Now start Seamonkey and print. What happens now? >>>>> If it still uses the PaperPort then exit Seamonkey, locate your profile >>>>> and the file prefs.js - make a copy of this file. Then right-click on >>>>> prefs.js (not the copy) and choose "edit". find all the lines referring >>>>> to printers and remove the lines. Save - Exit - restart SM. Now what >>>>> happens when you print? >>>>> >>>> >>>> That did it. And it added the HP printer info back into the prefs.js file. >>>> Also looking at the pref.js file there is quite a bit of garbage(?) left >>>> over >>>> from installations of extensions that are no longer in use and were not >>>> removed >>>> when removing the extensions. I assume they can also be removed? >>>> >>> >>> Additional: >>> The above worked fine until I had a page I wanted to print in pdf. >>> I went to print - selected PDFCREATOR as a printer and printed the page. >>> Now THAT printer has been added to about:config and when exiting SM is now >>> in >>> the prefs.js file along with the HP printer. >>> >>> PDFCREATOR is now the printer that shows up in SeaMonkey as it's default >>> printer >>> although the system default is the HP printer. >>> >>> Back to square one. >>> >> >> A little more investigation shows: >> 1. Cleaned printers out of prefs.js >> 2. Started SM >> 3. Printed to Printer WIN Default "A" >> 4. Printer "A" now shows up in about:config and prefs.js (after closing SM) >> 5. Started SM >> 6. Printed to Printer "A" >> 7. Selected a new Printer "B" (Printer "A" remains WIN Default printer) >> 8. Printed to Printer "B" >> 9. Printer "B" now shows up in about:config and prefs.js after Printer "A" >> entries. (after closing SM - Printer "A" remains WIN Default) >> 10. Started SM >> 11. Printer now prints to Printer "B" >> 12. Repeat steps 7 to 10 replacing "B" with "C" >> 13. Repeat steps 7 to 10 replacing "C" with "D" >> >> Now my SM default printer is Printer "D" (WIN Default still "A") >> Printer "D" is the last printer that shows in about:config and prefs.js >> >> print.save_print_settings is set to true >> >> It appears that each time a different printer is selected when printing from >> SeaMonkey, SeaMonkey reverts back to the last printer in line in the >> about:config table after the print job and, if not previously in the config >> file >> adds the printer just used after the previously entered printers. > > Instead, I think SeaMonkey remembers the last printer it used and makes > that its default printer until some other printer is used by SeaMonkey. > That is, SeaMonkey's default printer is always the last printer > SeaMonkey actually used. >
>From my testing it would appear to be the last printer in the entry table of config in the user profile. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
