Bug#295813: [moz-bonobo-list] Bug#295813: mozilla-bonobo: fails to print .ps and .pdf files

[Christian Glodt]

On Fri, 2005-02-18 at 10:38 +0100, Jose Antonio Jimenez Madrid wrote:
> Package: mozilla-bonobo
> Version: 0.4.1-4
> Severity: normal
> 
> 
> When I open a .ps or .pdf file with mozilla, then the plugin
> of mozilla-bonobo show the file. If I try to print the file (with
> icon or using the print option in file menu), then nothing happens :( .

Printing support is a functionality that was planned for mozilla-bonobo.
When I tried to implement it, I encountered some major difficulties.
In short, it is very hard to integrate the bonobo printing functions
with the netscape plugin printing interface. These bonobo functions have
never been used fully by any program (to my knowledge), so there is not
any guarantee that they will even work.

Since bonobo is going to be deprecated, and will be retired from GNOME
soon, I will not add new functionalities to mozilla-bonobo now. I'm
sorry if the lack of printing support inconveniences you, but there
is just no justification for investing huge amounts of time into this
right now.

> I must to save the file, and open with gv or xpdf to print it.

I don't think there is any better work-around than this.

> Mozilla work fine when I print web pages. 
> To solve it, I can use gv in helper-applications, but I need to 
> uninstall mozilla-bonobo.

Hope this helps,

Christian Glodt