Printing Ledger/Tabloid paper from FireFox 1.5?

[Carl G. Ponder]

When I print from FireFox 1.5, or ThunderBird 1.07 for that matter,
I have the option of using Letter, Legal, Executive, A3, A4, and A5
paper sizes, but not Ledger or Tabloid (11x17). I use this kind of
paper a *lot*, usually for large nspreadsheets or tables, and it
would be good to be able to use it with web-pages.

Is there a way for me to add it in, via the preferences etc.? I
imagine it wouldn't be that hard to for the developers to add it,
just another entry in the list of paper-size parameters, but don't
think I could figure it out from the sources.

[Ken Herron]

Unfortunately, with the postscript printing support for unix, the list
of paper sizes is hardcoded. The file in question is
<http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/gfx/src/psshared/nsPaperPS.cpp>.
You could file a bug to add new paper sizes to that list, but it'd be a
while before any change made it into a release version. Of course, it'd
be nice to have a mechanism to let the user support custom paper sizes,
but we already have an RFE for that; see
<https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=230220>.

[Carl G. Ponder]

Post by Ken Herron
Unfortunately, with the postscript printing support for unix, the list
of paper sizes is hardcoded. The file in question is
<http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/gfx/src/psshared/nsPaperPS.cpp>.
You could file a bug to add new paper sizes to that list, but it'd be a
while before any change made it into a release version.

Why don't you go ahead and start the process of adding the Ledger/Tabloid
to the hardcoded list? If you make a mistake, would it break the other
paper types? If not, just hack it into the next minor release, and I'll
deal with testing it.

I don't expect there to be any more paper types any time soon, so why not
finish the job? I'm more suprised there are all these other paper types
in the list...
Thanks,

Carl

[Ken Herron]

Post by Carl G. Ponder
Why don't you go ahead and start the process of adding the Ledger/Tabloid
to the hardcoded list?

Carl,

If you want to see this change made, the best approach is to go ahead
and file an RFE in bugzilla requesting it.