11958 - [PP] Mac OS - Error printing when default printer deleted

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Printing: Output, defect, P3)

Description

[cpratt]

Build ID: 1999070614 (August 15, 1999 build)
Platform: Mac OS 8.6 (Desktop printers are unique to Mac OS)

To reproduce:
[Note: these are instructions specific to Netscape's internal facilities.]
- Use the Chooser to select a printer to print to (I used MACKEREL).
- Launch apprunner
- Go to (say) yahoo.com and print
- Switch back to the Finder
- Use the Apple printer utility to create a new desktop printer (you might be
able to just select a different printer using the Chooser; this is merely what I
did to reproduce the problem) using lpr (to mackerel.mcom.com)
- Delete the current default printer (MACKEREL; via AppleTalk)
- Note that the lpr version of mackerel now becomes the desktop printer
- Switch back to apprunner and print again

Result: "An unknown error has occured. ID = -1"

Expected result: You should be able to print correctly to the new default
printer. This works as expected using Communicator 4.7.

Comment 1

[Chris Petersen]

I talked with Mr.Pratt to get more info on this problem. Based on the conversion,
I was ran through the steps but was not able to reproduce this problem under Mac
OS 8.6. Tested the Oct 11 build (1999101108) build of Apprunner.

Comment 2

[Chris Petersen]

I talked with Mr.Pratt to get more info on this problem. Based on the conversion,

I was ran through the steps but was not able to reproduce this problem under Mac

OS 8.6. Tested the Oct 11 build (1999101108) build of Apprunner.

Comment 3

[cpratt]

Using the 1999101114 build under Mac OS 8.5, I don't see this any longer. So...
I'm marking it WFM.

Comment 4

[Chris Petersen]

Marking verified works for me.