Printing in Mozilla

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DB Troll

1 Nov 2002 1 Nov '02

15:27

I have been trying to use mozilla but when I print out an e-mail the print comes out extremely large. By this I mean that for example the RE: is 7mm high while when I use netscape this same prints at 3mm. Has anyone else had rhis problem and if so can it be fixed to print smaller. Thanks David

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zentara

1 Nov 1 Nov

17:06

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On Fri, 01 Nov 2002 09:27:39 -0600 DB Troll wrote:

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I have been trying to use mozilla but when I print out an e-mail the print comes out extremely large. By this I mean that for example the RE: is 7mm high while when I use netscape this same prints at 3mm. Has anyone else had rhis problem and if so can it be fixed to print smaller.

I've seen this, and what I did was choose a smaller font size from the preferences. I know it's a pain to have to switch fonts just to print, but it works. Maybe there is a better solution by editing some obscure entry in 1 of the .js files. I need 3 new buttons on my mozilla toolbar, font-size, turn-off-images, and background-color. I change them so much, it's a pain to have to open the edit->preferences everytime. :-) -- use Perl; #powerful programmable prestidigitation

Richard Bos

2 Nov 2 Nov

07:17

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Op vrijdag 1 november 2002 16:27, schreef DB Troll:

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I have been trying to use mozilla but when I print out an e-mail the print comes out extremely large. By this I mean that for example the RE: is 7mm high while when I use netscape this same prints at 3mm. Has anyone else had rhis problem and if so can it be fixed to print smaller.

Check out: http://apps.kde.com/rf/2/info/vid/8038?sid=8a7f5ef8b494f8fc2557a48b72752502 What happens if you change postscript to lpr in mozilla? -- Richard

DB Troll

17:11

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Richard Bos wrote:

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Op vrijdag 1 november 2002 16:27, schreef DB Troll:

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I have been trying to use mozilla but when I print out an e-mail the print comes out extremely large. By this I mean that for example the RE: is 7mm high while when I use netscape this same prints at 3mm. Has anyone else had rhis problem and if so can it be fixed to print smaller.

Check out: http://apps.kde.com/rf/2/info/vid/8038?sid=8a7f5ef8b494f8fc2557a48b72752502

What happens if you change postscript to lpr in mozilla?

How do you change it from Postscript/default to lpr. David

Richard Bos

18:29

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Op zaterdag 2 november 2002 18:11, schreef DB Troll:

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Richard Bos wrote:

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Op vrijdag 1 november 2002 16:27, schreef DB Troll:

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I have been trying to use mozilla but when I print out an e-mail the print comes out extremely large. By this I mean that for example the RE: is 7mm high while when I use netscape this same prints at 3mm. Has anyone else had rhis problem and if so can it be fixed to print smaller.

Check out: http://apps.kde.com/rf/2/info/vid/8038?sid=8a7f5ef8b494f8fc2557a48b7275250 2

What happens if you change postscript to lpr in mozilla?

How do you change it from Postscript/default to lpr. David

File -> Print -> Properties -> Now change the print command. Unfortenately mozilla-1.1 forgets its print configuration, so you have to adopt it each time you start Mozilla. -- Richard Bos Without a home the journey is endless

zentara

23:21

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On Sat, 2 Nov 2002 19:29:05 +0100 Richard Bos wrote:

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What happens if you change postscript to lpr in mozilla?

How do you change it from Postscript/default to lpr. David

File -> Print -> Properties -> Now change the print command. Unfortenately mozilla-1.1 forgets its print configuration, so you have to adopt it each time you start Mozilla.

What happens is Mozilla saves the preferences it started up with. So what you need to do is close mozilla down, then go into /mozilla/default/pref/unix.js Add something like this to the entries: pref("print.print_command", "lpr ${MOZ_PRINTER_NAME:+'-P'}${MOZ_PRINTER_NAME}"); pref("print.printer_list", "lp lp1 lp2 lp3 lp4 lp5 lp6 lp7"); // list of printers, seperarated by spaces Then the next time you start mozilla you will get a list of printers. You leave the postscript part in there, because the postscript output will get sent to the ghostscript filter for each printer listed. -- use Perl; #powerful programmable prestidigitation

DB Troll

3 Nov 3 Nov

05:03

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zentara wrote:

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On Sat, 2 Nov 2002 19:29:05 +0100 Richard Bos wrote:

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What happens if you change postscript to lpr in mozilla?

How do you change it from Postscript/default to lpr. David

File -> Print -> Properties -> Now change the print command. Unfortenately mozilla-1.1 forgets its print configuration, so you have to adopt it each time you start Mozilla.

What happens is Mozilla saves the preferences it started up with. So what you need to do is close mozilla down, then go into

/mozilla/default/pref/unix.js

Add something like this to the entries: pref("print.print_command", "lpr ${MOZ_PRINTER_NAME:+'-P'}${MOZ_PRINTER_NAME}"); pref("print.printer_list", "lp lp1 lp2 lp3 lp4 lp5 lp6 lp7"); // list of printers, seperarated by spaces

Then the next time you start mozilla you will get a list of printers. You leave the postscript part in there, because the postscript output will get sent to the ghostscript filter for each printer listed.

Hello Zentara,

Ok I followed your instructions but it still prints large, I printed this message from netscape and it used just a bit over half page on mozilla it used over three-fourts page. Where elde do I look. Thanks David

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zentara

11:30

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On Sat, 02 Nov 2002 23:03:11 -0600 DB Troll wrote:

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How do you change it from Postscript/default to lpr. David

File -> Print -> Properties -> Now change the print command. Unfortenately mozilla-1.1 forgets its print configuration, so you have to adopt it each time you start Mozilla.

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What happens is Mozilla saves the preferences it started up with. So what you need to do is close mozilla down, then go into

/mozilla/default/pref/unix.js

Add something like this to the entries: pref("print.print_command", "lpr ${MOZ_PRINTER_NAME:+'-P'}${MOZ_PRINTER_NAME}"); pref("print.printer_list", "lp lp1 lp2 lp3 lp4 lp5 lp6 lp7"); // list of printers, seperarated by spaces

Then the next time you start mozilla you will get a list of printers. You leave the postscript part in there, because the postscript output will get sent to the ghostscript filter for each printer listed.

Hello Zentara,

Ok I followed your instructions but it still prints large, I printed this message from netscape and it used just a bit over half page on mozilla it used over three-fourts page. Where elde do I look.

Like I said in an earlier reply, mozilla seems to be a WYSIWYG printer, what ever is on the screen, is the font size that will get printed. The next time you try to print, edit the preferences first, and change the fonts, and minimum font size to a lower value. It's clunky, but it works for me. It's probably a bug in mozilla, which we will have to wait to be fixed. -- use Perl; #powerful programmable prestidigitation

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