On 2009/08/17 11:45 (GMT+0200) Wolfgang Rosenauer composed:

Am 17.08.2009 11:31, schrieb Felix Miata:

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[I posted this more than 48 hours ago on the SUSE Usenet groups and Mozilla's Firefox support group, all with no responses other than suggesting to ask elsewhere. :-( ]

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Firefox 2.0.0.20 from Mozilla.org, SeaMonkey 1.1.17, Konqueror & Opera all print http://fm.no-ip.com/auth/Font/fonts-ptdemo.html as expected or nearly so.

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Firefox 3.5.2 from Mozilla.org and Firefox 3.0.11 from 11.0 light up the printer's busy and form feed lights for a time, but the printer never prints anything. When I check KJobViewer after the print lights go out, there's nothing there.

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The printer dialogs for the others all permit me to choose the postscript version of the printer instead of the CUPS version, while I can find no option to do the same in FF 3.x.

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My printer is a Postscript LaserJet 4M connected via IP address only.

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How can I get FF 3.x to print to my printer?

The print dialogs were changed in FF3 and up. Interesting is that your printer reacts to something so a print job is most likely created. So that might need debugging on the postscript/cups side where I have not really a deep insight. I'm curious though if printing from other Gnome applications works? If so it _could_ be that Firefox' postscript output doesn't work on your printer for some reason. Can you print to a file and print that file afterwards? If you print into a PDF can you print that PDF afterwards using some PDF viewer?

After reading your reply I did 'zypper ref; zypper in MozillaFirefox' which replaced 3.0.11 with 3.5.2. Nothing changed in the fresh 3.5.2, which uses a separate profile from the mozilla.org 3.5.2. I tried to print it to a file http://fm.no-ip.com/tmp/SUSE/110/mozilla.ps loading it in KGhostView 3.5.x. That made the printer lights blink for over 30 minutes before I checked KJobViewer to see no jobs listed, and cycled the power on the printer to cancel the obviously broken job. Then I successfullly printed the same page as in my OP with Epiphany 2.22.1.1. AFAIK, Epiphany, SeaMonkey, Firefox & GIMP are my only installed Gnome/GTK apps. Next I tried a different computer running 11.1. Konq prints fine, but FF 3.0.10 won't print either. Selected driver is 'HP LaserJet 4M Foomatic/Postscript (recommended)[HP/LaserJet_4M-Postscript.ppd.gz]'. YaST2 on 11.0 printer settings printer driver options showed A4 paper. I changed it to US Letter, which is what it should have been in the first place (as in KDE3 country/region settings), then restarted Firefox 3.5.2 and tried to print again, but got same failure. Selected driver is 'HP LaserJet 4M Foomatic/Postscript (recommended)[HP/LaserJet_4M-Postscript.ppd.gz]' -- How much better to get wisdom than gold, to choose understanding rather than silver. Proverbs 16:16 NKJV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

* Felix Miata [08-18-09 02:14]:

FF 3.x will not print on any of my 11.0, 11.1 or Factory 11.2 systems (4 machines tried so far), while everything I've tried except FF 3.x has no problem printing.

You definitely have something amiss locally. I have no problem printing: MozillaFirefox-3.5.2-2.3 x86_64 Factory/M5 cups-1.3.11-19.1 gutenprint-5.0.2-7.3 kdebase4-4.3.0-104.1 -- Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA HOG # US1244711 http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://counter.li.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

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. Francesco On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 6:07 PM, Felix Miata wrote:

On 2009/08/18 10:42 (GMT-0400) Patrick Shanahan composed:

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* Felix Miata [08-18-09 02:14]:

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FF 3.x will not print on any of my 11.0, 11.1 or Factory 11.2 systems (4 machines tried so far), while everything I've tried except FF 3.x has no problem printing.

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You definitely have something amiss locally.  I have no problem printing:

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MozillaFirefox-3.5.2-2.3 x86_64 Factory/M5 cups-1.3.11-19.1 gutenprint-5.0.2-7.3 kdebase4-4.3.0-104.1

I only tried 11.1 & Factory to see if the same problem exists there also. I have on 32 bit 11.0 where it needs to work: MozillaFirefox-3.5.2-1.2 cups-1.3.7-25.8 gutenprint-5.0.2-13.1 kdebase3-3.5.9-65.2

Like I wrote, Firefox 3.5.2 on Windows and other openSUSE apps and printer test page work. My printing problem is unique to Linux FF3. -- How much better to get wisdom than gold, to choose understanding rather than silver. Proverbs 16:16 NKJV

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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? -- How much better to get wisdom than gold, to choose understanding rather than silver. Proverbs 16:16 NKJV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

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

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

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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 -- How much better to get wisdom than gold, to choose understanding rather than silver. Proverbs 16:16 NKJV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Hello, On Aug 17 12:46 Felix Miata wrote (shortened):

Next I tried a different computer running 11.1. Konq prints fine, but FF 3.0.10 won't print either. Selected driver is 'HP LaserJet 4M Foomatic/Postscript (recommended)[HP/LaserJet_4M-Postscript.ppd.gz]'.

Perhaps Firefox produces a bit awkward PostScript which your particular printer doesn't like. Therefore you may use your printer in PCL5e mode via the driver/PPD HP LaserJet 4M Foomatic/ljet4 [HP/LaserJet_4M-ljet4.ppd.gz] for more reliable printing, compare http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Purchasing_a_Printer_and_Compatibility Set up a second print queue for PCL5e mode and use this queue if it doesn't work via the primary queue in PostScript mode. Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstrasse 5, 90409 Nuernberg, Germany AG Nuernberg, HRB 16746, GF: Markus Rex -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org