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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