270152 - 'Print to file' not working correctly when printing silently

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Core :: Printing: Output, defect)

Description

[F.J. Olthuis]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
Build Identifier: Mozilla 1.7

I'm using Mozilla 1.7 embedded in a Microsoft Win32 application.

My application supports several document types, each associated with its own 
print settings. This requires me to show a print dialog only once for each 
document type. After that, the printSilent setting is set to true. This works 
fine when printing to a printer, but not when 'print to file' is specified. 
I believe this has to do with two problems:

1. nsDeviceContextSpecWin::CheckForPrintToFile ignores the 'print to file' 
setting as well as the return value of nsIPrintSettings::GetToFileName. 
Instead, it uses the printer name to determine whether printing to file is 
wanted, which I believe to be incorrect.

2. nsPrintSettings::CheckForPrinters fills in a valid printer name. So even if 
I fill in a filename instead of a printer name to satisfy 
nsDeviceContextSpecWin::CheckForPrintToFile, this still doesn't work because 
it is overruled by nsPrintSettings::CheckForPrinters.

I haven't tested this, but I guess the user might be able to print to file if 
the 'print silent' setting is off, because this causes a print dialog to be 
shown not until after nsPrintSettings::CheckForPrinters has done its job. 
Clearing the 'print silent' setting is not an option for me though, so I 
currently have no workaround.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
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Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

reporter is gone - support at oclcpica.org writes "we are no longer interesested in these bugs, since it is such a long time ago. But thanks annyway. Yours sincerely, Servicedesk"