118156 - Need per printer name print commands for PostScript module

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: Printing: Output, defect)

Description

[Eric Vaandering (no email)]

Right now all printers default on linux to using lpr as the print command. This
should be configurable for each print defined. For instance, I may want to
define gv as a "printer" and I definitely want to define kprinter as a "printer"
which gives me lots of other options, like Fax, E-mail PDF, etc.

Comment 1

[Roland Mainz]

Accepting...
Setting milestone 0.9.9 for now, but I'll try to implement this earlier ...

Comment 2

[Con Kolivas]

Changing the "print command" under printer properties in linux only
works for the current session also, with the command returning to the default
command on restarting mozilla (lpr...). The relationship with this enhancement
request is that the default printer should be stored in the profile.

Comment 3

[Austin Donnelly]

Previous versions of mozilla (0.9.6?) used to store the printer command between
invokations in:
  user_pref("print.print_command", "lpr");
Newer versions (Build ID 2002020415) no longer re-write this user-pref.
I discovered this because I'd previously changed the print command using the 
UI to "lpr -Pyew" to use another printer temporarilly.  It correctly got
memorised because I was using the older mozilla, but now I've upgraded to
0.9.8: changing the print command in the UI does not update the prefs file.

Manually editing the files solved the problem for me, but I'd also like to
change the paper size to A4 by default.

Comment 4

[Con Kolivas]

Seems it doesnt store the printer page settings (letter/a4 etc.) either.

Comment 5

[Roland Mainz]

Bug 125078 ("Implement InitPrintSettingsFromPrinter for GTK+/Xlib") will allow
to populate the print dialog with per-printer print commands, too...

Comment 6

[Roland Mainz]

Fixed by patch for bug 125078 ("Implement InitPrintSettingsFromPrinter for
GTK+/Xlib").

"print_command" can now be set in a per printer-specific manner, e.g.
|pref("print.postscript.printer_foobar.print_command", "psview /dev/stdin");|
sets the print command for the printer "foobar" only to "psview /dev/stdin",
overriding the default in unix.js

Marking bug as FIXED.

Comment 7

[sujay]

Eric/Roland,

can you please verify this bug