FC3 and printing from Mozilla

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Mon Sep 27 12:26:31 UTC 2004


Christopher Aillon wrote:
> Rex Dieter wrote:
> 
>> Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote:
>>
>>> Not having support for multiple printers (unless you know the syntax of
>>> lpr) is really a huge handicap for end-user-friendlyness IMO

>> I thought I'd at leaste mention that by using xprint 
>> (http://www.mozilla.org/projects/xprint/)
>> one can get this feature *now*.

> Mozilla 1.7.3, Firefox 1.0PR1, and Thunderbird 0.8 query cups for the 
> printer list.  All of which are in rawhide.  Now.  Without xprint. 

I'm using mozilla-1.7.3 on my box right now (and without xprint), the 
only printer listed for me is "Postscript/default".  Am I missing something?

>> Unfortunately, redhat has been reluctant to provide the support in 
>> their build of mozilla for it to work.
...
> I'd say s/reluctant/strongly opposed/ to xprint but that has been 
> discussed elsewhere and no need for déjà vu all over again.

The only responses I've ever seen/heard from redhat regarding xprint is 
a curt replies like yours.

I don't know about your deja-vu, but all I know is that xprint has 
worked for me personally going back to the mozilla-1.4 days.  What's 
troublesome to me is that I see no harm in simply enabling xprint 
support in the mozilla builds, since it does nothing if xprint isn't 
installed and running, yet redhat *still* refuses to even allow that.

-- Rex





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