Re: [opensuse] Firefox 3.x will not print

Hi Felix,
as I said, I had the same problem with firefox. When trying to print
to the default printer (lanier 5635), I had no output. The printer did
not send error messages. I switched to another printer (hp). Again no
output, however a warning from the printer asking me to load A4 sized
paper instead of the letter sized one, not available here. After
accepting the suggestion I had the output. The new firefox print
dialog does not allow to set the page size, for this reason I tried to
change the default paper size through "about:config". I replaced any
occurrence of US-letter with iso-a4.This workaround worked for me, I
applied it to all our machines with success. I think that most of the
problems come from the new print dialog, that I do not like, however I
had no time for investigating. I tried to bypass it without success.
Francesco



On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 9:10 PM, Felix Miata <mrmazda@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 2009/08/21 13:08 (GMT-0400) Felix Miata composed:

On 2009/08/21 11:02 (GMT+0200) Francesco Teodori composed:

I had the same problem with firefox. It was due to the fact that firefox
 tried to print to letter paper size instead of A4, the only available to my
 printers. The printer dialog does not allow to change the paper size. I
 found two solutions. The first was to "ask" for the print preview and to set
 the correct page size before printing. The second was to go to about:config,
 to look for the "print" related items and set everywhere A4 as default. I
 hope this my help you. For me, it worked.

I remember often in pre-FF3 times that an A4 paper size caused printer
failure in various apps. I never thought to try about:config to find paper
size, but it seems this is probably the problem. A search on A4 in
about:config got me one instance, which I changed to letter. Unfortunately,
it didn't help. Print still fails, and on return to about:config after
attempting to print, A4 again shows up. Print preview doesn't help either.
Paper format is already set to US Letter there.

In my KDE3 settings for Country/Region, Paper format is set to US Letter.
Where else could FF3 be picking up A4 from?

I took another look at *paper* in about:config, and don't believe any paper
size pref is an issue. I see:

1-print.postscript.paper_size defaults to letter
2-A4 needs to be listed once as an available type, along with A3, A5 &
others, as in print.tmp.printerfeatures.*.paper.*.name -> e.g.
print.tmp.printerfeatures.lj4m.paper.1.name
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