[sylpheed:30645] Re: printing does not work (2.3.0)

Oliver Lehmann lehmann at ans-netz.de
Thu Dec 28 21:19:01 JST 2006


Oliver Lehmann wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> 1st thing:
> ‎tried the new printing stuff in 2.3.0 but when I click "Print" in the
> new printing dialog, nothing happens on the printers side. I can say for
> sure that "lpr" works w/o problems on printing stuff from STDIN.
> When I put placing "cat > /tmp/log" into the command box instead of
> "lpr", a errorbox saying "Broken pipe" appears. So nothing was sent via
> STDIN to cat. Why no STDIN?

The bug got resolved:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=390159

> 2nd thing:
> I then tried printing to a File (PostScript) and the resulted PS file
> (named output.pdf - strange extension for a PS file or?) looks mangled.
> The mail-header is displayed crunched to 2 all overwriting themselve in
> the document. Same happens when I print as File, PDF.

Any idea if my patch will make it into sylpheed to fix this? I'll go and
include it into FreeBSDs sylpheed port to fix printing.


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