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Re: [LUG] Mozilla Printers





Mark Evans wrote:

Hi List

Does anyone know how to define printers in Mozilla, I have only got 
access to the default postscript printer. We have 4 Printers in 
different offices which I need to be able to print to from Mozilla?

Can anyone Help.
   


The usual unix way is to configure the printer queue to accept
postscript and change it into whatever the printer wants. Typically
PCL or ESC. There are a couple of packages which make things easier
than trying to work out the correct paramaters to ghostscript; 
"magicfilter" and "apsfilter". IIRC RedHat uses apsfilter and has
a GUI config tool to set it up.

Not quite what I'm looking for. I have no probs sending to the printer. 
I Just want to configure more than one printer in Mozilla so I can pick 
one from the drop down menu. I can't find out how to do it.

Possibly http://www.mozilla.org/projects/xprint will be of some help,
but this dosn't appear to be documented anywhere obvious.


When you are running VNC is there any way in which the session
can tell which terminal is in use? (This is quite simple with
LTSP.) That way, instead of expecting the user to know which printer
they should use, the computer can automatically select the appropriate
one.

Each VNC session, Connects onto an individual port, I guess if you were 
really clever you could use this. But if you fire up VNC through Xinetd 
then forget it, as Xinetd will allocate the next available port.
<In a Nutshell> No. </In a Nutshell>

More useful is the peer IP address, which can probably be found
out from /proc/net/tcp.

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