Re: Printing level 1 PostScript from FireFox 1.5?

In article <[email protected]>,
Carl G. Ponder <[email protected]> wrote:
>I just upgraded to FireFox 1.5 and I can't print any more. (1) The
>printer properties menu no longer allows me to insert a Unix pipe
>command like
>
>	| convert_ps1.firefox | lpr -P localps

When printing to a CUPS printer (one with a name of the form
"CUPS/foo"), Firefox doesn't run an external command to print, so
there's no way to run the output through an additional filter.

When printing to a printer whose name begins with "PostScript/", firefox
still runs an external command like it always did, and you should be
able to edit the command through the printer properties dialog like you
used to. However, you may be experiencing bug 312582 here. Basically,
the printer properties dialog displays properties for whatever printer
you printed to last, instead of your currently selected printer. If
your last print job was to a CUPS printer, then there's no print command
to display in the properties dialog.

The workaround for bug 312582 is to print once to the PostScript/foo
printer--you could select print-to-file if you want--so that the
last-selected-printer setting contains the printer you want to use.
Then, when you open the print dialog again and select printer
properties, it should display the correct properties including the print
command. Alternately, you could load about:config and edit the relevent
prefs directly.
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