[plug] Mozilla printing woes

[Craig Ringer]

> Has anyone managed to get Mozilla to print properly with Debian and
> Cups?

Yes, but its a pain. You need to export an environment varible telling 
it what the available printers are, because it's too dumb to read 
/etc/printcap.

export MOZILLA_POSTSCRIPT_PRINTER_LIST="xerox typeset"

Put this in /etc/profile, ~/.bash_profile, or define the environment 
variable in /etc/security/pam_env.conf . I use the latter personally, as 
I really like the way pam_env handles everything, but you'll need to 
make sure pam_env is being used in your PAM config (/etc/pam.d/*) for it 
to work.

Once that env var is set, you should be able to set it to A4 once in the 
Mozilla print window (click "properties" once you select the printer) 
and have it remember the setting correctly for each printer.

> Printing works fine from KDE and OpenOffice.

Becuse they can read the printcap, like any other app except Mozilla 
written since 1970-something.

> So: what have I done wrong here?

Nothing, this is mozilla braindeadness. The developers answer it with 
"use xprint" which isn't IMHO overly helpful.

Craig Ringer