From: rich at dwell dot co dot uk
Operating system: Windows 2003
PHP version: 4.3.4
PHP Bug Type: Network related
Bug description: Cannot output to a shared printer
Description:
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There is a problem with the php_printer.dll.
Printing to a local printer is fine although I find that some of the
options in printer_set_option do not seem to work.
On any share network printer, however, PHP gives warning about not being
able to allocate the print job and then terminates.
I can in some cases work around this by outputing to a file and then
calling the external program print.exe to print the file, but this is only
useful for printers with there own proprietory language like label
printers.
Obviously this is not a rights issue as I am printing to the printer using
print.exe which runs under IUSR privileges.
Reproduce code:
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<?php
$handle = printer_open("\\\\Warehouse\\whlaser");
printer_start_doc($handle, "");
printer_start_page($handle);
$font = printer_create_font("Arial", 100, 50, PRINTER_FW_MEDIUM, false,
false, false, 0);
printer_select_font($handle, $font);
printer_draw_text($handle, "PHP is simply cool", 400, 400);
printer_delete_font($font);
printer_end_page($handle);
printer_end_doc($handle);
printer_close($handle);
?>
Expected result:
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The network printer should output "PHP is simply cool" as it does on a
locally connected printer.
Actual result:
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Warning: couldn't allocate new print job in c:\inetpub\wwwroot\test\unused
routines\print.php on line 4
Warning: couldn't start a new page in c:\inetpub\wwwroot\test\unused
routines\print.php on line 5
Warning: couldn't end the page in c:\inetpub\wwwroot\test\unused
routines\print.php on line 15
Fatal error: couldn't terminate print job in
c:\inetpub\wwwroot\test\unused routines\print.php on line 17
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