On Wed, 5 Nov 2008, [log in to unmask] wrote:

> Printing from firefox 3 for us is not reading in
> customisations users have made to their printer
> settings stored in their $HOME/.cups/lpoptions (or
> $HOME/.lpoptions) file. This is not the case for firefox 2.
> You can pick the options you desire from the firefox
> print dialogue box, but you have to do it everytime
> you go to print which for us is particularly annoying as
> everyone has their own photocopier printing code.
>
> It's the same behavior with the firefox 3 download from
> the mozilla site as well as the SL firefox rpm.

I don't know if many people here set options in lpoptions but I've seen no 
complaints so far.

> In the terminal window when choosing to print we get
> the error message:-
>    (Gecko:20184): Gtk-WARNING **: Unknown paper size A4

We get those all the time, I guess that at least one of the Gecko authors 
didn't believe in 'A' sizes...  The A4 output seems fine - at least once 
we hacked the bottom-margin:

// Try to set the gap at the bottom margin to a sane value
defaultPref("print.print_unwriteable_margin_bottom", 20)

> I'm just wondering if others are experiencing this?
>
> cheers,
> Ronnie

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