Closed Bug 324539 Opened 18 years ago Closed 18 years ago

Firefox sends a bogus print job to the printer asking for preprocessing

Categories

(Firefox :: General, defect)

x86
Linux
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

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RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 189884

People

(Reporter: bugs, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20051010 Galeon/1.3.21 (Debian package 1.3.21-6ubuntu3) (Ubuntu package 1.0.7)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20051010 Firefox/1.0.7 (Ubuntu package 1.0.7)

Firefox sent a job to our HP Color LaserJet 4500 saying:

The Postscript interpreter in your printer is 2014.200
This printout requires at least version 2015 or greater.

with some additional instructions on how to convert the job with ghostscript. If Mozilla knew this might happen, it should have done the processing itself.

Also, by printing the bogus job instead of throwing up an alert dialog, it wasted resources, in this case, transparencies.

Asking desktop users to type in obscure ghostscript commands to get web pages to print is a huge regression.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Send job to printer.
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Actual Results:  
Document with ghostscript instructions comes out.

Expected Results:  
The user's web page should have been printed with all processing done by Mozilla, not the user.
Duplicate of Core bug 189884?
(In reply to comment #1)
> Duplicate of Core bug 189884?

Yes, thanks. I tried searching before filing, but didn't spot that one.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 189884 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 18 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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