Bug 131502 - Unable to print from FireFox
Summary: Unable to print from FireFox
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: SUSE LINUX 10.0
Classification: openSUSE
Component: Printing (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: i686 SuSE Linux 10.0
: P5 - None : Normal
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Assignee: Johannes Meixner
QA Contact: Johannes Meixner
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Reported: 2005-10-30 07:22 UTC by Robert Thomas
Modified: 2006-02-06 14:52 UTC (History)
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Description Robert Thomas 2005-10-30 07:22:46 UTC 
I'm unabled to print from FireFox.  All KDE apps seem to print: konqueror,OpenOffice, etc.  I can force postscript printing by modifying the variables in about:config.  But then I get a:

D [30/Oct/2005:01:08:50 -0600] [Job 16] ESP Ghostscript 8.15.0: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
E [30/Oct/2005:01:08:50 -0600] [Job 16] Cannot Process Raster

and the print job aborts.  In fact, I'm unable to get any gtk app to print.  The printer shows up CUPS/Printer, but nothing prints out.  It goes to some unknown electron abyss.
Comment 1 Johannes Meixner 2005-10-31 09:22:11 UTC 
The "Ghostscript ... Unrecoverable error" shows that Ghostscript
fails to process the PostScript which is produced by the applications
(i.e. Firefox and any other GTK application).

As it is Ghostscript which converts the PostScript form the applications
into printer specific data it doesn't print.

As it works from non-GTK applications this indicates that it is no
error in Ghostscript but an error in the applications which produce
the PostScript (i.e. that the applications produce broken PostScript).

To provide more info:

1.
Print a small HTML page from Firefox into a (PostScript) file
e.g. "firefox.ps".

2.
View the file directly with Ghostscript:
gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE firefox.ps 2>&1 | tee /tmp/gs.log

3.
Attach /tmp/gs.log to this bug.
Select the attachment mime type explicitely as "text/plain".
Comment 2 Robert Thomas 2005-10-31 22:14:12 UTC 
I upgraded my ghostscript and cups to the OSS-edge version.  I can print from Firefox now.

Regards,

Rob
Comment 3 Johannes Meixner 2006-02-06 14:51:46 UTC 
No feedback received, closing it as WORKSFORME.
Feel free to reopen this bug again with the needed information added.
Comment 4 Johannes Meixner 2006-02-06 14:52:09 UTC 
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