Bug#353643: Bug#352220: firefox: Multiple printing problems
Mike Hommey
mh at glandium.org
Mon Dec 21 12:14:41 UTC 2009
Hi John,
Could you check whether the issues below still apply to either iceweasel
3.0.6 in Lenny or 3.5.x in squeeze ?
Thanks
Mike
On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 08:21:53AM -0600, John Goerzen wrote:
> Package: firefox
> Version: 1.5.dfsg-4
> Severity: normal
>
> There are several problems with printing in Firefox:
>
> 1. There is no way to make the default printer "stick" between sessions.
>
> 2. Each printer is listed twice. Once with "@:64" after the name, and
> once as CUPS/name. It's completely undocumented in the help system what
> the difference between these is. There are also xp_ps_spooldir and
> xp_pdf_spooldir, which also are completely undocumented.
>
> 3. None of the CUPS printers work; when I try to print, I get a Printer
> Error box that says "There was a problem printing because the paper size
> you specified is not supported by your printer."
>
> 4. The Page Setup box takes margins only in millimeters. It should also
> be able to accept margins in inches.
>
> 5. The na-letter paper size in the Printer Properties box is confusingly
> located in the middle of a bunch of ISO options, and is difficult to
> find there.
>
> 6. It's unclear what the "Gap from edge of paper to Margin" in Printer
> Properties means, or how it relates to the margins in Page Setup, or
> even what units it is given in. I see 0.4 on my screen. 0.4 what?
> Inches? Centimeters? Millimeters?
>
> 7. Under Colorspace, I see "TrueColor/24bit" listed four times, with no
> apparent difference between them. It's also unclear what the difference
> between GrayScale and StaticGray is.
>
> 8. The Resolution/Quality box maxes out at 600DPI. Quite a few printers
> are capable of more than that these days.
>
>
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: testing/unstable
> APT prefers unstable
> APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.13.3
> Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
>
> Versions of packages firefox depends on:
> ii debianutils 2.15.2 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
> ii fontconfig 2.3.2-1.1 generic font configuration library
> ii libatk1.0-0 1.10.3-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit
> ii libc6 2.3.5-12.1 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
> ii libcairo2 1.0.2-3 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
> ii libfontconfig1 2.3.2-1.1 generic font configuration library
> ii libfreetype6 2.1.10-1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
> ii libgcc1 1:4.0.2-8 GCC support library
> ii libglib2.0-0 2.8.6-1 The GLib library of C routines
> ii libgtk2.0-0 2.8.10-1 The GTK+ graphical user interface
> ii libidl0 0.8.5-1 library for parsing CORBA IDL file
> ii libjpeg62 6b-11 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
> ii libpango1.0-0 1.10.2-1 Layout and rendering of internatio
> ii libpng12-0 1.2.8rel-5 PNG library - runtime
> ii libstdc++6 4.0.2-8 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
> ii libx11-6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System protocol client li
> ii libxcursor1 1.1.3-1 X cursor management library
> ii libxext6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System miscellaneous exte
> ii libxft2 2.1.8.2-2 FreeType-based font drawing librar
> ii libxi6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System Input extension li
> ii libxinerama1 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System multi-head display
> ii libxp6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System printing extension
> ii libxrandr2 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System Resize, Rotate and
> ii libxrender1 1:0.9.0.2-1 X Rendering Extension client libra
> ii libxt6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Toolkit Intrinsics
> ii psmisc 22.1-1 Utilities that use the proc filesy
> ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-9 compression library - runtime
>
> firefox recommends no packages.
>
> -- no debconf information
>
>
On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 05:51:06PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote:
> There were 6 issues reported:
>
> #1 apepars to persist
>
> #2 persists as well
>
> #3 is fixed
>
> #4 exists, only now it takes margins only in inches
>
> #5 exists
>
> #6 exists
>
> #7 exists
>
> #8 exists
>
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