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Re: CUPS vs lpd (was Re: Giving up on Iceweasel 3.0)



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On 07/06/08 09:59, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote:
> On 06 Jul 2008, Anthony Campbell wrote:
>> On 05 Jul 2008, Ron Johnson wrote:
>>> What is the reason that you don't install CUPS?
> 
>> 1. because lpr/lpd and magicfilter work perfectly for me.
>> 2. because CUPS offers no advantage for me.
>> 3. because when I did use it in the past my output was slightly
>>    worse than with my existing setup.
>> 4. because, in the light of the above, using it will involve me
>>    in a fair amount of work for no clear benefit and possibly a
>>    worse output.
> 
> You are right IMHO; it is a bug, not just the Inevitable March Of
> Progress. It seems clear that the Firefox developers did not
> intend to drop lpr support:
> 
>   - they don't say anything about such a change in the Release
>     Notes.
>   - in about:config there are still numerous references to
>     PostScript/Default, lpr., etc.
>   - it seems such a silly thing to remove; very little code can be
>     saved by this.
> 
> Surely it is a bug. From this item on bugzilla:
> 
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=430818
> 
> it seems that until a few days before the Firefox 3 release (which
> took place on June 17th) Firefox could not print *at all*. It had

That's weird.  Sid only has -rc_2_ and I can print just fine.
Unless Eric Dorland (the IW maintainer) fixed the code himself.

> a totally empty print dialog box. It seems they could fix it to
> some extent before the release date, but not completely.
> Unfortunate for those who have used lpr to complete satisfaction
> for so long (and not only for directly-connected printers BTW).
> 
> There are lots of other bugs in the new Firefox/Iceweasel. A
> particularly serious one (all resized images became black
> rectangles) apparently was quietly fixed a few days ago.

Where did you read this?  I resize pictures, and they don't turn
into black rectangles.  Unless what I'm thinking of isn't what
"they" are talking about...

>                                                          I expect
> the same will happen with the lpr bug. In the meantime I'll just
> soldier on with the "inoticoming" trick. I refuse to change to cups!

- --
Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA  USA

"Kittens give Morbo gas.  In lighter news, the city of New New
York is doomed."
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