Bug 107306

Summary: Print preview doesnt show preview - shows blank box
Product: [Applications] konqueror Reporter: Bob Renstrom <res079kp>
Component: khtml printingAssignee: Konqueror Developers <konq-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME    
Severity: normal CC: gassauer
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: unspecified   
OS: Linux   
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Attachments: snap shot of screen showing bug

Description Bob Renstrom 2005-06-13 00:52:20 UTC 
Version:           unknown (using KDE 3.4.0 Level "b" , SUSE 9.3)
Compiler:          gcc version 3.3.5 20050117 (prerelease) (SUSE Linux)
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.11.4-21.7-default

I'm using a Dell inspiron 5000e with Suse 9.3 - full install - and am not able to get a print preview when printing to my HP Colorjet 1120c.  The install is a stock install with no plugins.  The print preview screen appears with the "print and cancel" icons and, what appears to be, the bottom pixels of a line of text in the middle of the screen surrounded by the box that would normally hold the preview.  The background of the preview screen is the same color as the rest of the print preview screen borders.  Hope this helps - and thank you for the wonderful product!
Comment 1 Bob Renstrom 2005-06-13 01:00:32 UTC 
Created attachment 11419 [details]
snap shot of screen showing bug
Comment 2 Dik Takken 2005-06-13 15:59:05 UTC 
That looks scary.

Does printing work from other KDE applications, like KMail or KWord?
Comment 3 Bob Renstrom 2005-06-21 03:55:16 UTC 
On Monday 13 June 2005 06:59, Dik Takken wrote:
Yes 
[bugs.kde.org quoted mail]
Comment 4 Reinhold Kainhofer 2005-08-07 16:06:37 UTC 
The screenshot indicates that the postscript viewer part could not be created and embedded into the printing dialog...

Anyway, this is not a problem of kontact, but or konqueror (according to your screenshot).

Cheers,
Reinhold
Comment 5 Bob Renstrom 2005-08-10 14:20:26 UTC 
Reinhold Kainhofer wrote:

[bugs.kde.org quoted mail]
Thanks for your response.  I guess I have to wait for kde to be fixed?

Regards,

Bob
Comment 6 Sebastian Reitenbach 2005-09-27 08:43:45 UTC 
Hi,
I have the same problem, my print preview looks the same like the sreenshot above. I am also using SuSE 9.3 but with KDE 3.4.2 rpm packages.

Sebastian
Comment 7 Matthias Theiß 2005-10-27 09:00:40 UTC 
Hallo,

its the same problem with Suse 10.0, KDE 3,4.2 Level B.

Matthias
Comment 8 Sebastian Reitenbach 2005-10-27 09:08:01 UTC 
I think the nsplunginviewer might cause the problem. replacing the file associations for application/postscript from the nspluginviewer to kghostview, then it will show the print preview.
Comment 9 Matthias Theiß 2005-11-01 22:26:54 UTC 
Aus dem linux-club.de Forum:

Hi, 
 
 setze mal bitte im Konqueror für den Dateityp .ps (postscript) den eingebetteten Betrachter auf KghostView (einfach die Reihenfolge ändern und Kghostview an 1. Stelle setzen. 
 
 Dann klappts auch wieder ... Smile 

Bei mir hat das funktioniert.

Matthias
Comment 10 Marc Collin 2005-11-16 21:21:23 UTC 
i have this bug too (with konqueror, kate...)

the file associations for application/postscript was always setting to KghostView
Comment 11 Marc Collin 2005-11-30 08:10:26 UTC 
i have the same problem with kde 3.5
Comment 12 Guido Pinkernell 2006-01-18 16:13:26 UTC 
@ Marc (Comment #11): You need to to change the file association for the _embedded_ previewer, where you probably find nspluginviewer.

Comment #9 from Matthias did help. The preview facility disappeared as described by the original poster here after deinstalling nspluginviewer. Obviously the file associations in KDE 3.5 didn't change automatically, i.e. the nspluginviewer was still listed.
Comment 13 Kurt Pfeifle 2007-01-07 02:24:58 UTC 
Problem seems fixed; please follow the advices in comment 9 and comment 12
Comment 14 Kurt Pfeifle 2007-01-09 05:12:44 UTC 
*** Bug 126340 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***