135118 - Multiple printer support broken

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Core :: Printing: Output, defect)

Description

[David Favor]

Selecting from multiple printers defined on system does not work and
documentation is either wrong or broken. If lp, lp8 and lp8c are defined
on system, there should be a clear way to either discover or input each
of these printers and the associated print command required by each. The var
$MOZILLA_PRINTER_LIST is ignored. In prefs.js the entry for multiple printers
'user_pref("print.printer_list", "lp lp8 lp8c");' does pop up each printer in
the print dialog, for selection, however printing defaults to the entry for
'user_pref("print.print_command","...");' and there appears to be no way to
associate a unique print_comand with each printer.

Comment 1

[Roland Mainz]

Confirming...
... the docs are not up-to-date.

1. The "MOZILLA_PRINTER_LIST" env var has been renamed to
"MOZILLA_POSTSCRIPT_PRINTER_LIST" (I renamed it to avoid confusion with the 2nd
print module in Mozilla (Xprint) which uses some env vars, too)
2. |user_pref("print.printer_list", "lp lp8 lp8c");| works for me when I put it
in my profile's prefs.js - but be sure to use a whitespace for seperation of the
names (the parser is picky).
3. You can set per-printer print commands via
|user_pref("print.printer_PostScript/myprinter.print_command", "my_lpr");|
("myprinter" is the name of the printer, "my_lpr" is the spooler command which
is fed with the data).

Finally - if you have Linux, Solaris or HP-UX (AIX may follow soon) you may use
the Xprint module (details on demand) ...

Comment 2

[Eric Vaandering (no email)]

Regarding point 2. below, the printers appear, but the print command sends them
all to the default printer. (Very non-intuitive.)

Comment 3

[Roland Mainz]

Eric Vaandering wrote:
> Regarding point 2. below, the printers appear, but the print command sends 
> them all to the default printer. (Very non-intuitive.)

AFAIK I fixed this issue recently for the PostScript module. Please get a
nightly from http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/nightly/latest/ and test it - it
should work...

Alternatively you may use the Xprint module which has multiple-printer support
since eternity...

Comment 4

[Eric Vaandering (no email)]

This is fixed in a personal CVS build from this morning. Print commands entered
into the dialog are saved as well. 

Thanks Roland

Comment 5

[sujay]

David/Eric, can you verify this and mark verified-fixed ? thanks.

Comment 6

[sujay]

verified per Eric's last comments.