134854 - [user docs] Linux printing system needs documentation

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(support.mozilla.org :: Knowledge Base Articles, task)

Description

[Graham]

The release notes (for 0.9.9) do not cover PostScript printing under Linux.

At the very least I would like to see a mention of the
MOZILLA_POSTSCRIPT_PRINTER_LIST environment variable, described in bug 123270.

I'm not sure what else would be worthwhile to document; Roland can likely offer
some input in this area.

Comment 1

[rudman]

Reassigning to Jatin.

Comment 2

[Jatin Billimoria]

CCing Sujay:

Sujay can you confirm whether Bug 123270 is an appropriate workaround to the
PostScript printing under Linux problem noted above?

If so, can you add a description of this bug and workaround to the Mozilla 1.0
release notes tracking bug: Bug 133795

Comment 3

[sujay]

Roland/Don, can one of you comment on whether this is the appropriate
workaround? thanks.

Comment 4

[dcone (gone)]

I think the reporter just wants the part of the discussion in bug 123270 put 
into the release notes.  I am not familiar with Linux enviornment variables.. so 
it would be inappropriate for me to document this variable.  But someone who is 
can just mention this variable and that it holds a list of printers that will be 
used to get the printers a user can select in the printer dialog box and where 
the default printer goes in this list.  I think Roland is the man who needs to 
write this release note.

Comment 5

[Roland Mainz]

Taking per dcone's request.

Should the release notes be written in HTML or ASCII ?

Comment 6

[sujay]

Roland, simply look at the format in bug 133795 and make your
addition..basically add the bug number, the problem and the workaround.

look at how others have done it in that bug...

Comment 7

[Roland Mainz]

Which kind of format is preferred - HTML or plain ascii text ?

Comment 8

[Roland Mainz]

Attachment: Release notes, 1st attempt

Comment 9

[Roland Mainz]

Another item:
-- snip --
** i18n configuration for the PostScript module
Descriptions how to configure the PostScript module to print non-iso-8859-1
languages can be found in bug 76433 ("Document how to enable Linux
Chinese/Korean printing")
-- snip --

Comment 10

[Roland Mainz]

Comment on attachment 83995 [details]
Release notes, 1st attempt

bug 139110 ("Final page in browser fails to print") is another
PostScript-module-only bug...

Comment 11

[rods (gone)]

Looks fine. I think the printing prefs for the "edge gap" should be mentioned.
What they are and how to set them.

Comment 12

[Roland Mainz]

rods wrote:
> Looks fine. I think the printing prefs for the "edge gap" should be mentioned.
> What they are and how to set them.

Can I paste the current information to the 1.0 release notes tracker bug and add
the missing entry later, please ?

Comment 13

[Roland Mainz]

Attachment: Release notes, 2nd attempt

Per discussion with jatin we should create a seperate documentation with all
the in-depth details...

Comment 14

[Roland Mainz]

*** Bug 169936 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 15

[David Boswell]

The www.mozilla.org site no longer hosts documentation.  If there is still a need for this it should be added to MDC.  Moving to Mozilla Developer Center product for discussion.

Comment 16

[John Karahalis [:openjck]]

Automatically closing all bugs that have not been updated in a while. Please reopen if this is still important to you and has not yet been corrected.

Comment 17

[John Karahalis [:openjck]]

Reopening for review by Sheppy.

Comment 18

[Eric Shepherd [:sheppy]]

This is not a developer documentation issue.

Comment 19

[Verdi [:verdi] Best to slack me]

Printing instructions for Linux are covered in this article: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-print-websites 

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