On 2009/08/17 11:45 (GMT+0200) Wolfgang Rosenauer composed:
Am 17.08.2009 11:31, schrieb Felix Miata:
[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. :-( ]
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.
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.
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.
My printer is a Postscript LaserJet 4M connected via IP address only.
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