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List:       gentoo-desktop
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-desktop] This printing problem has bugged me for YEARS!
From:       Lindsay Haisley <fmouse-gentoo () fmp ! com>
Date:       2005-01-29 1:06:13
Message-ID: 20050129010613.GD17129 () fmp ! com
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OK, here's a fix for Galeon.  Edit ~/.galeon/mozilla/galeon/prefs.js and
insert as many of the following quatrains as necessary - one for each
printer:

user_pref("print.printer_PostScript/<printer_name>.print_edge_bottom", 25);
user_pref("print.printer_PostScript/<printer_name>.print_edge_left", 25);
user_pref("print.printer_PostScript/<printer_name>.print_edge_right", 25);
user_pref("print.printer_PostScript/<printer_name>.print_edge_top", 25);

where <printer_name> is the name of your printer, e.g. "hpljiii" or
"BRN_38C8EF" (Brother HL-5170DN name based on the mac address).  I copied
these from prefs.js in Firefox, where the problem can be addressed in the
printer properties UI.

Galeon already has a lot of lines in prefs.js which look like ...

user_pref("print.tmp.printerfeatures.PostScript/<printer_name>.etc...);

but lines of this form doesn't work for setting the print_edge vars, and get
deleted on each run of the program.  Mozilla has both forms, and the former
is used for setting the explicit printer hw margins, as in Firefox.

This ought to be a bug, or at least a feature request, on Galeon, which is
otherwise a fine browser.

Thus spake Lindsay Haisley on Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 06:22:36PM CST
> The settings for galeon are print.print_edge_bottom, left, right and top.
> These are gconf settings, apparently, and don't seem to affect the hw margin
> issue.  Firefox and Mozilla both use prefs.js for this and the settings are
> per-printer and work as expected, and solve my problem for these browsers
> (re-emerging mozilla gave me back print dialogs for it).
> 
> The Galeon printing UI is kind of wonky anyway, and I expect the use of the
> underlying API may be equally confused.  I have no idea why Galeon insists
> on presenting both a Printer drop-down and a Command text input field in the
> Print dialog.  The Printer drop-down seems to be overridden by the Command
> text input, which has to be an lpr command (e.g. "lpr -Phpljiii").  It's
> kinda like tits on a bull.
> 
> I'm going to try copying prefs.js settings from mozilla to the galeon
> prefs.js and see if that has any effect.
> 
> Thus spake Paul de Vrieze on Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 03:43:48PM CST
> > On Friday 28 January 2005 19:58, Shawn Wilson wrote:
> > > Lindsay,
> > >
> > > I had this same problem and I *was* able to fix it through Mozilla, but
> > > not in the location Paul suggested.
> > >
> > > First open the File->Print dialog. Next to the printer drop-down click
> > > the "properties" button. In this printer properties dialog there is a
> > > section at the bottom labeled "gap from edge of paper to margin
> > > (inches). These are the values that I needed to adjust. By default they
> > > were 0.04 on my box which is way too slim.
> > >
> > > I first printed a test page through cups which tells me (in the
> > > "imageable area" section) exactly what my printer's margins are. I
> > > simply took the "lower-left" figures and used the first value for
> > > left/right and the second value for top/bottom. Make sure you're using
> > > the values for inches.
> > 
> > Alternatively you can use "about:config" as url. Then set the filter to 
> > "print_edge" then you get a number of quads with values. The default is 4, 
> > there can also be printer specific settings. The greatest thing is that it 
> > works in all gecko-based browsers that actually use gecko for their settings.
> > 
> > Paul
> > 
> > -- 
> > Paul de Vrieze
> > Gentoo Developer
> > Mail: pauldv@gentoo.org
> > Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net
> 
> 
> 
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