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



Ron Johnson wrote:

> On 07/06/08 09:59, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote:

>> 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*. [..]

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

>> 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. I
>> expect the same will happen with the lpr bug. [..]

> 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...

It could be that the "black rectangle bug" (which occurs /
occurred, for instance, when a Web page serves a picture at a
specific size, not its "natural" size) only happened with ATI
Radeon cards. There are several bug reports about it, for instance
this Ubuntu one:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox-3.0/+bug/182038

and very likely also Debian bug #487834. I have a Radeon, and
had trouble with this bug in FF3, not in FF2. But as I said, it
has disappeared (after an upgrade).

The "lpr printing bug" may also disappear soon. The bugzilla page
I mentioned now has a contribution by list member Mumia W. who
says lpr printing works again after installing GTK+2.10 (from
source). I'm going to try that..

Regards, Jan


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