Thank you very much for the advise. I'll print this out and see if I can't
come up with a solution that will work. I don't recall this being a problem
in earlier releases. Maybe I'm just forgetting.
On Saturday 15 February 2003 07:05 am, Guy Van Sanden wrote:
> The difference betweek kmail and mozilla is that all KDE applications
> use the KDE printing system (located in the KDE control center).
> This detected my CUPS server (running FreeBSD) out of the box, without
> any hassles.
>
> Mozilla and other apps (like OpenOffice) use the default Unix commands
> to print (which interface with CUPS).
> So what you need to do is configure that serperately using the Mandrake
> Control Center.
>
> If you already have your printers configured there, make sure that you
> have a default printer. This will be used when doing lpr <file> on the
> command line.
>
> There's always the workarround to always print with the KDE printer
> system (which has additional options).
> Just print to a ps (postscript) file in Mozilla, OO, ... then open a
> terminal window and type 'kprinter <file>'.
>
> Good luck
>
> Guy
>
> On Sat, 2003-02-15 at 00:56, Rolf Pedersen wrote:
> > Lorne wrote:
> > > Okay,
> > >
> > > I was sure this was discussed here before, but I can't find it. I use
> > > 9.0 and mozilla. I am using cups printing. From Kmail I can print just
> > > fine. But from within Mozilla I can not. It has a funky lpr syntax and
> > > I don't know how to configure this so I can print to my remote smb
> > > printer. Any help appreciated. here is the default syntax:
> > > PostScript/default. Then in properties it is: lpr
> > > ${MOZ_PRINTER_NAME:+'-P'}${MOZ_PRINTER_NAME}
> > >
> > >>From within Kmail it is simply name: HP4 and print system currently in
> > >> use:
> > >
> > > Cups
> >
> > What I know about the mozilla print command is that you can change it to
> > what you want but it won't be saved for the next session, so you have to
> > change it each sesssion. There is a bug about this at mozilla bugzilla.
> > For instance, I can change this to kprinter --stdin and get the
> > kprinter dialog to choose printers and parameters. I don't know about
> > printing to a remote smb printer but maybe that is accessible in
> > kprinter for you or maybe it is a matter of adding --stdin to the end of
> > the print command that works for you on the command line.
> >
> >
> >
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