[PLUG] Re: Firefox printing

[Tom Diehl <tdiehl@rogueind.com>]

On Wed, 1 Dec 2004, W. Chris Shank wrote:

> Does anyone know if it's possible to get Firefox to show a LIST of your
> printers so that you can choose a printer to send the job to? With KDE
> systems I used to replace the lpr string with kdeprint which was a nice
> little wrapper that intercepted all your print jobs to a central place.
> >From there you could choose where to send it. Does Gnome have a similar
> feature? It appears that Evolution 2 has something like this -but it is
> the only app I've found that actually calls the wrapper.

Yes, FireFox has hidden and in my experience a lot of undocumented
configuration parameters. To access them goto about:config and then search
for print.printer_list. add your printers to the list and you should be
all set.

Regards,

Tom
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