[ltp] More on Problems Printing from Netscape

[James McKenzie]

The saga gets more interesting:

I edited the prefs.js file and changed the settings for the 
XR_Printer1@localhost.localdomain:33 and Postscipt/default printer to 
MATCH!  The setting is as follows:

lpr -P XR_Printer1
which matches that in the CUPS system.

When I print to the XR_Printer1, no dialog box comes up and nothing is 
printed. If I select the Postscript/default printer, I get the dialog 
box and the job is spooled through to CUPS and shows on the CUPS printer 
administration web page.

The same thing happens if I change the settings to print to 
Canon_Bubblejet printer.

I will send the prefs.js file as I see no problem in doing so. However, 
I will not 'spam' the list with this file, so request if you want it.  I 
suspect something is wrong with the xprint server between Netscape and CUPS.

James McKenzie


James McKenzie wrote:

> 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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