Re: mozilla, cups and kprinter: Printing is no fun
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Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
> Dear all!
>
> Are there any suggestions as to "howto setup printing systemwide" for
> firefox, iceweasel, icedove and other gnome applications?
>
> We have nfs-mounted home-directories, use a cups-server for printing,
> and most users use kde and kprinter.
>
> We use debian sarge, but I tested the following also with etch, since
> etch is close enough to be released.
>
> # aptitude purge firefox
> # aptitude install firefox
>
> $ rm -rf .mozilla/
> $ firefox
>
> ...to set all to default values.
>
> There are several issues:
>
> 1. all printers detected by firefox's printing system have paper size
> set to 'letter' ignoring
> # cat /etc/papersize
> a4
>
> Manually editing all the printer settings to a4 is not preserved on
> upgrades of firefox.
>
> 2. selection of a printer is not remembered. Each time a user prints a
> page, the first printer in the list is selected. Ie. if a user prints 5
> web pages on printer C, each time printer C has to be selected manually.
>
> 3. firefox's print dialog doesn't care about printer options. It is not
> possible to select or deselect duplex printing etc.
>
> 4. header and footer lines (containing page numbers, urls, etc) are
> printed only half or are completely outside the printer's margins.
>
> 5. firefox 1.5 default print command,
> lpr ${MOZ_PRINTER_NAME: '-P'}${MOZ_PRINTER_NAME}
> doesn't work at all at our configuration.
>
> I guess there are some settings in about:config that could be changed,
> but this has to be repeated each time there is an upgrade of firefox,
> this has to be repeated for icedove, this has to be performed for each
> user. I would rather have a system setting for all workstations and all
> users.
>
> How do other debianists deal with it? Is there a 'nice' debian solution,
> just editing some files in /etc?
>
> Today, a technical assistant considered these (especially 2. and 3.) as
> "release critical" for herself and went back to use Windows NT 4.0 again
> instead of debian sarge.
>
> For myself, I wouldn't consider M$ software a solution, but I am also
> terribly annoyed by not being able to print properly and hassle free
> from mozilla applications. (In particular, it's always that extra step
> of manually selecting the printer 'default/postscript' and redirecting
> it to kprinter.)
>
> Thanks,
>
> Johannes
>
> NB:
> On debian etch:
> Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060830
> Firefox/1.5.0.7 (Debian-1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.7-2)
>
> xprint xprint-common are not installed. Those, if anything, made matters
> worse, the last time I tried it.
>
>
Go into about:config and delete the problem printer setting.
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