FC3 and printing from Mozilla
Kyrre Ness Sjobak
kyrre at solution-forge.net
Mon Sep 27 12:27:16 UTC 2004
Yes. Why is xprint so evil? I if works, it must be better with
half-broken than 100% broken?
man, 27.09.2004 kl. 14.26 skrev Rex Dieter:
> 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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