[ltp] More on Problems Printing from Netscape

[James McKenzie]

Richard:

I don't run kprinter as I run Gnome (the default interface) under Red 
Hat.  It appears that something changed with my RH setup as I have tried 
the following:

lpr '-P '+${MOZ_PRINTER_NAME}
and
lpr '-P '+'${MOZ_PRINTER_NAME}'
and (lastly)
lpr -P${MOZ_PRINTER_NAME}

None of these work, but if I put the following in the Postscript/default 
printer setting, it works:
lpr -P Canon_Bubblejet.

Now the printer settings that do not work look like the following:
XR_Printer@localhost.localdomain:33 or
Canon_Bubblejet@localhost.localdomain:33

Any ideas?

Thanks.

James McKenzie


Richard Neill wrote:

> It is also possible to set the printer to be 'kprinter'  (if you are 
> running kde) and you'll then get the kde printer dialog. This also 
> works in xpdf, acroread etc.
>
> Incidentally, Mozilla can't spoof its identity easily, but konqueror 
> is very good at it on a site-by-site basis. (The "user agent" is what 
> you want to change - it's the frog icon)
>
> Hope that's useful
>
> Richard
>
>
>
> James McKenzie wrote:
>
>> First:
>>
>> It appears that no one here has experienced the problems I'm having 
>> or I'm being ignored.  There has been no feedback on this problem, so 
>> I decided to continue troubleshooting.
>>
>> Second:
>>
>> The use of Mozilla is NOT an option in my case.  I visit several 
>> Windows centric sites and the webmasters have been from neutral to 
>> "Use Windows, we will never support Linux, there is no audience for 
>> this OS" to downright hostile "Windows is the way to go and Linux is 
>> basically SHIT (sorry folks, but is a direct quote from one of the 
>> sites that I asked for Mozilla/Netscape support for Linux.)
>>
>> Third:
>>
>> I've figured out the problem is the lpr command used by Netscape 
>> which is:
>>
>> lpr ${MOZ_PRINTER_NAME:+'-P'}${MOZ_PRINTER_NAME}
>>
>> I've modified just about every location for this command to:
>>
>> lpr '-P '${MOZ_PRINTER_NAME}
>>
>> However, when I restart Netscape, the lpr command changes back to the 
>> version that does not work.
>>
>> If I set the postscript/default printer to lpr -P <printer_name> 
>> everything prints ok.  I know that permentantly fixing the lpr 
>> command will fix the problem.
>>
>> It appears that I'm missing a location to reset the lpr commands.  
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> BTW, the problem was NOT cups related, but I found the above fix on 
>> the CUPS site.
>>
>> James McKenzie
>>
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