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Firefox GTK+ Integration

Firefox GTK+ Integration

Posted May 28, 2008 13:09 UTC (Wed) by dskoll (subscriber, #1630)
In reply to: Firefox GTK+ Integration by Los__D
Parent article: Fsyncers and curveballs (the Firefox 3 fsync() problem)

REGRESSIONNOTAFEATUREREQUEST. :-)

FF 2.0 will produce PostScript even if it doesn't detect printers, AFAIK.


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Firefox GTK+ Integration

Posted May 29, 2008 0:07 UTC (Thu) by roc (subscriber, #30627) [Link]

Sure, because FF2 had its own print dialog with its own CUPS integration etc. But there were a
lot of problems with that, so we switched to the GTK+ print support.

Now you will say that to ensure things keep working for all users, we need to ship support for
the old print code as well as the GTK+ integration code. Of course, if we did that, people
would complain about bloat.

Can't win.

Firefox GTK+ Integration

Posted May 29, 2008 2:53 UTC (Thu) by dskoll (subscriber, #1630) [Link]

I don't care if you only ship a print dialog with gtk+ print dialog support providing you have a way to generate Postscript to a file. Surely the Postscript rendering code needs to be built into Firefox anyway?

Firefox GTK+ Integration

Posted May 29, 2008 5:53 UTC (Thu) by roc (subscriber, #30627) [Link]

We wouldn't want to provide "available by default" UI for a feature that only people with
broken print setups would use.

Someone could write an extension though. This PDF output extension might work for you if you
can post-process the PDF. It probably only needs slight tweaks to make it output PS instead.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5971

Firefox GTK+ Integration

Posted May 29, 2008 12:45 UTC (Thu) by dskoll (subscriber, #1630) [Link]

Print-to-PDF extension is perfect.  Thank you!

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