87727 - Need to display an error dialog when we can't open a postscript file to write to during printing on Linux

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 97907

(Core :: Printing: Output, defect)

Description

[Kevin McCluskey (gone)]

If thePostScript begin_document fails because the user enters a filename which
can not be opened we need to notify the user.  filenames with relative paths,
non-existent directories, and trying to open a file in directory that the user
doesn't have write permissions to are examples where Mozilla fails silently.

Comment 1

[dcone (gone)]

*** Bug 94307 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2

[Roland Mainz]

Some more items where printing may fail:
- PostScript module:
  - printer command not found
  - printer command returned an error (what about stdout/stderr of print cmd ?)
- Xprint module:
 - no printer found
 - given printer name not found
 - access error (access to printer denied)
 - invalid printer attribute combination

Comment 3

[Roland Mainz]

dcone:
Can I overtake this bug, please ?
There is a "extern "C" void ShowOSAlert(char* aMessage);" in Mozilla which may
be misused for this task...

Comment 4

[dcone (gone)]

All yours.. thanks

Comment 5

[Roland Mainz]

I am going to fix this as part of bug 97907

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 97907 ***

Comment 6

[sujay]

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