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 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. > ======= > > 1. Remove prefs.js from the firefox default directory. > 2. Start firefox. > 3. print page to file using PostScript/Default (i.e. CUPS, if you > have that). Succeeds. > 4. print same page to file using xprint (lp@:64). Fails. 'Paper > size is not supported by printer'. > 5. Stop firefox. > > Test B. > ======= > > 1. Remove prefs.js from the firefox default directory. > 2. Start firefox. > 3. print page to file using xprint (lp@:64). Succeeds. > 4. print same page to file using PostScript/Default. Fails. 'Paper > size is not supported by printer'. > 5. Stop firefox. > > So it is whatever you used first, from a 'virgin' situation, that > works (and will keep working afterwards). > > I noticed that in the new firefox the 'Postscript/Default' has > been changed; it now uses Freetype printing by default, and thus > can print international pages. So we are closer to being able to > get rid of xprint (/etc/init.d/xprint stop or update-rc.d -f > xprint remove); then X must be restarted, otherwise there will be > long delays while firefox keeps looking for the missing xprint. > Now only PostScript/Default will be offered. > > Unfortunately, the print results with PostScript/Default, although > better than they used to be, are still not quite up to the > standard of (properly tuned) xprint. For instance I noticed some > problems with printing left and right (UTF-8) single quotes, and > with Korean. But this may also be a matter of tuning. -- Eric Dorland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ICQ: #61138586, Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1024D/16D970C6 097C 4861 9934 27A0 8E1C 2B0A 61E9 8ECF 16D9 70C6 -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GCS d- s++: a-- C+++ UL+++ P++ L++ E++ W++ N+ o K- w+ O? M++ V-- PS+ PE Y+ PGP++ t++ 5++ X+ R tv++ b+++ DI+ D+ G e h! r- y+ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
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