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Date:	Wed, 4 Dec 2002 21:48:19 PST7
From:	"J. R. Fox" <jr_fox@pacbell.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: Printing issues

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Sandy wrote:

> I have been using Mozilla 1.2 beta for many weeks now without any
> difficulty.
>
> Now, all of a sudden I can't print. When I click on the Print icon,
> everything freezes. I can only recover by hitting control-escape a few
> times and then closing Mozilla.
> . . .
> I don't have this problem with Netscape.

I've been using Mozilla 1.1.a, and have not seen this problem myself. However, I
have seen a couple other printing-from-browser problems.

1) In Netscape 4.61, for some time I have found that when I do a print job from NS
-- the current web page or some document -- I get the waiting clock icon until the
job has fully printed. All keyboard or mouse response becomes to no avail: can't
look at an alternate page, switch to another app., etc. while printing is in
progress. Which printer has the print job does not seem to matter. I don't recall
for sure, but think this was very likely not always the case. If that is true,
there must be some tuning / settings issue involved. Suggestions welcome.

Oh, one other thing: if there are two or more Netscape windows loaded, I can't even
bring up the window from which printing is requested. This also was probably not
always the case. Re this situation, I'm mostly running W4 @FP-9, with the next to
last drop of NS 4.61.

2) Just like I cannot seem to arrange a cache behavior for Mozilla duplicating the
one in NS 4.61 (*discrete* saving of sound or graphics files), I also really don't
like the divergent printing behavior of Mozilla. This is particularly true in
regard to Frames, which print in a lousy and haphazard fashion. You get a nonstop
string of *page elements* rather than pages. Most graphics print out as solid
black shapes. Folks, this really bites, and sends me right back to 4.61 for print
jobs ! Also, I find the discrete saving of many page elements in various places --
out of which a re-displayed file is apparently re-assembled on the fly, to be
exceedingly lame !!

Is there no way to force a "Do Like 4.61" behavior upon Mozilla, for these things ?

You're probably going to send me to the Mozilla List(s), or somesuch . . . . If
necessary, I'll take it up there.

Jordan

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