Printing on solaris (sysv/lp) with 20030217 nightly

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bremner
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Printing on solaris (sysv/lp) with 20030217 nightly

Post by bremner »

I have downloaded the nightly buiild for Solaris SPARC from mozilla.org
I am running under SunOS 5.8 with the sysv/lp print system.

When I try to print from the file menu I get


"There was a problem printing. No printer could be found"

I tried adding some lines to ~/.phoenix/default/blahblah.slt/user.js

pref("print.postscript.print_command", "lp ${MOZ_PRINTER_NAME:+'-d'}${MOZ_PRINTER_NAME}");
pref("print.print_command", "lp ${MOZ_PRINTER_NAME:+'-d'}${MOZ_PRINTER_NAME}");
pref("print.printer_list", "a4"); // list of printers, seperated by spaces

but this did not help

Under Mozillla 1.2.1, I get a preferences box where I can edit the printer properties to use the lp command,
but I have the feeling the problem is at some higher level, selecting a printer system or some such thing.
gisburn
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Joined: February 7th, 2003, 8:38 pm

Re: Printing on solaris (sysv/lp) with 20030217 nightly

Post by gisburn »

bremner wrote:I have downloaded the nightly buiild for Solaris SPARC from mozilla.org
I am running under SunOS 5.8 with the sysv/lp print system.

When I try to print from the file menu I get

"There was a problem printing. No printer could be found"


Does installing Xprint (see http://www.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla ... tml#xprint and/or http://xprint.mozdev.org/) help ?
For Solaris there is the drop-in "GISWxprintglue" package (current snapshot is http://puck.informatik.med.uni-giessen. ... unk.tar.gz) which should solve the problem...
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