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Bug 710746 - Firefox Print Dialog: Default Settings for "Print to File" fail silently
Firefox Print Dialog: Default Settings for "Print to File" fail silently
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 711177
Product: gtk+
Classification: Platform
Component: Printing
2.24.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gtk-bugs
gtk-bugs
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2013-10-23 19:00 UTC by Dominique Leuenberger
Modified: 2013-10-31 20:49 UTC
See Also:
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Description Dominique Leuenberger 2013-10-23 19:00:53 UTC 
In the print dialog (File/Print...), after choosing "Print to File" Firefox
suggests to print to the file "mozilla.pdf" in my home directory.  Clicking
"OK" shows the progress bar for a moment, but no file "mozilla.pdf" is created
anywhere.


Obviously, some data did not make it through to the 'right' location.
If one chooses the directory to place the file in, all works just fine.

This entire thing seems to be a regression 'somewhere' between 2.24.14 and 2.24.18

(see https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=839089 for a downstream bug report)
Comment 1 Timothy Arceri 2013-10-29 21:50:23 UTC 
Rather than trying to fix this bug my suggestion would be to backport the file selection changes in the GTK+3 print dialog to to GTK+2. This will likely fix the issue (as a side affect) and should probably be done for consistency between GTK apps anyway.

See: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=554712

Maybe you could suggest this downstream.
Comment 2 Dominique Leuenberger 2013-10-31 08:56:49 UTC 
Bug 711177 seems to address the same, and comes with a simple patch.
Comment 3 Timothy Arceri 2013-10-31 20:49:32 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 711177 ***