![]() ![]() Which was caused by invalid printing prefs where we used to set a page size unit of millimetres, but left in the old inches dimensions in some cases when using specific page size codes in print_paper_data. Yes this looks like a resurfacing of bug 1276717. > the problem here that many TB user see lots of blank pages in the print > Bob and Jim, can you see any connection between the small tweak you did and (In reply to Jorg K (GMT+2) from comment #58) That made a total of 9 "printers" banked up in my about:config! The ghosts of the printers I've used in the past Operating Systems lives numbered 4 and there were 3 print to PDF files printers and printing to the Officejet's Fax print. So that's what happens behind the scenes! The line print.printer_HP_Officejet_Pro_8600_(Network).print_paper_height shows that -1.00 as discussed by others as did the one for width. Next I clicked print preview of the above message emailed from Bugzilla (as a sample to print) and voila it presented correctly (and not a vertical string of little pages)! When I clicked to actually print it, it printed correctly (as expected) but about:config immediately displayed my current printer print.printer_HP_Officejet_Pro_8600_(Network).print_bgcolor false and 36 other related lines. When I re-opened TB and looked at about:config it showed all those print.printer_.x were gone (as expected). > You need to be very careful not to make any other undesired changes. > Edit the file with an editor and remove those 280 lines. > In TB, open Help > Troubleshooting information and then open your profile > I'm not going to "Reset" 280 lines one line at a time! > (In reply to Victor Bien from comment #47) (In reply to Jorg K (GMT+2) from comment #48) My computer has been ported over from older operating systems more than once and my printers have changed but TB remembers them all!! Is that part of my problem? If so how am going to fix that - I'm not going to "Reset" 280 lines one line at a time! OK thanks for the link to the British dictionary - never had time to chase that up on my own steam.Ĭlicking "Reset" to remove a line? I have 280 lines relating to many printers clicking Reset for each one will be too hard. ![]() > How so? Yon can install an en-GB dictionary: > to put up with the American English spell checker when we use UK English > (In reply to Victor Bien from comment #45) > "Reset" will delete non-standard settings, they will be gone after a restart > (In reply to Victor Bien from comment #44) (In reply to Jorg K (GMT+2) from comment #46) I would appreciate if this could fixed in a future update such that this issues disappears without manual edit in about:config. there is print.printer_.* and printer_.* with the first appearing to be the active one. ![]() Worked for three profiles in total, all rather old ones that gathered a lot of print* settings over time and that show also that the structure of the settings changed at least once in the past, e.g. As being located in Germany, such a format was most likely never configured for the printer. When later looking at the changed settings, values are displayed as "-1,00".įormer values while the issue existed were "11,00" and "8,50", obviously the dimensions of the "US letter" format measured in inches (25,4 mm). Change value of print.printer_.print_paper_width to "-1"Įither immediately or latest after restart of Thunderbird, issue is gone. Change value of print.printer_.print_paper_height to "-1"ĥ. ![]() Replace spaces by underscore for further reference, so example becomes "HP_LaserJet_5L".Ĥ. Look at setting print.printer to find of selected printer, example value is "HP LaserJet 5L".ģ. ![]()
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