334419 - linux/KDE/CUPS no longer able to change printing to KDE print utility

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 312583

(Firefox :: Shell Integration, defect)

Description

[myjunketc]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.8.0.2) Gecko/20060308 Firefox/1.5.0.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.8.0.2) Gecko/20060308 Firefox/1.5.0.2

* no longer able to change print command in print>properties to redirect to KDE print dialog with firefox 1.5.x *  - in firefox v1.0.x one could change the default print command "lpr ${MOZ_PRINTER_NAME:+'-P'}${MOZ_PRINTER_NAME}" to "kprinter" which allows user to take advantage of full range of KDE print options, including print to file (PDF), mail PDF, send to FAX, etc. Print to PDF is preferrable to print to postscript. Please put this capability back!

PLUS - when will the LINUX version have the ability to print directly from page preview as in the WINDOWS version. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.file > print >
2.click on properties button
3.only page sizes are available in the dropdown of the printer properties dialog - in v1.0.x, there was an additional modifiable text box that displayed the actual print command




reported in MozillaZine Forum Index ->  Mozilla Firefox Support on Mar Tue 21st 2006 see http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=369726

Comment 1

[Steve Garcia]

With Firefox 1.0.x, the printer properties dialog was fairly crude. You couldn't set many options, but one thing you could do was type any command line arguments into a box and get pretty much any print-time option you knew the command flag for.

Under Firefox 1.5 printer properities dialog is a lot cleaner -- and a lot barer. I can now choose paper size, margins, and between grayscale and color. That's it. No command line box, no stretch, no tray selection. If I want to use duplex printing, for example, I'm out of luck. 

It's probably a lot to ask to request that the print dialog box have provision for every possible option that a printer might have (as a Windows dialog might have, or OpenOffice, or Acrobat or...)

But that's ok.  If we can just have the command line box back, you can take your time getting us printer specific options.

Please?

Comment 2

[aa]

For me, the main reason to use "kprinter" is to print into PDF files. Because LPD daemon, I consider it, is obsolete, and CUPS comes to replace it.

I found CUPS-PDF (http://www.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de/~vrbehr/cups-pdf) a good option to my proposes. If I configure a new pdf-printer, futher by the default, the pdf-file resulted is located in my the KDE's Desktop.

If I need a some special print options I configure a new printer in CUPS. Maybe it's the bad part.

I think that firefox should print directly into PDF format also. Are there legal complications?

Comment 3

[Wolfgang Rosenauer [:wolfiR]]

Reporter, there is a Postscript/Default printer in the printer list.
Can you change the print command for that one? And if so, is the setting persistent?

Comment 4

[Wolfgang Rosenauer [:wolfiR]]

this is a duplicate to bug 312583.


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 312583 ***

Comment 5

[myjunketc]

(In reply to comment #3)
> Reporter, there is a Postscript/Default printer in the printer list.
> [1] Can you change the print command for that one? 
> [2] if so, is the setting persistent?
> 
In response to [1] - YES I can change the print command. Using Postscript/Default I can change the print command to "kprinter" and if I print *immediately* the kprinter dialog appears

In response to [2] - NO the setting does NOT PERSIST. If I attempt to print (the same or a different page) again using Postscript/Default the print command *has been reset by FF* to the lpr command. 

REPRODUCABLE - ALWAYS

Comment 6

[Wolfgang Rosenauer [:wolfiR]]

then it's fixed with bug 324072 and will be fixed with Firefox 2 at least

Comment 7

[myjunketc]

SUCCESSFUL WORKAROUND

In about:config, change value for print.postscript.print_command FROM (default) lpr command - lpr ${MOZ_PRINTER_NAME:+'-P'}${MOZ_PRINTER_NAME} - TO kprinter

After this change, when printing, I notice

> if Postscript/default is chosen, the kprinter dialog always appears
> physical printers and printer queues on the print dialog print through CUPS to designated printer (as expected)

This workaround is stable, even when browser is closed and then reloaded.

Tested using Firfox 1.5.0.2