Closed Bug 5702 Opened 26 years ago Closed 21 years ago

Command line "-print" option: print the page

Categories

(Core Graveyard :: Cmd-line Features, enhancement, P3)

enhancement

Tracking

(Not tracked)

VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 100571
Future

People

(Reporter: mcmullen, Unassigned)

References

Details

(Keywords: helpwanted)

The option should take a URL and should print the page at that URL (preferably, but not necessarily, without opening a browser window) Example: apprunner -print http://www.apple.com
Assignee: don → mcmullen
Priority: P3 → P2
Target Milestone: M7
Can you do this by M7? Or should someone else do it? Or should we do it even later?
Accepting
Assignee: mcmullen → radha
Severity: normal → enhancement
Status: ASSIGNED → NEW
Priority: P2 → P3
Target Milestone: M7 → M9
Radha, what we need is -print command line support for all platforms ...
Am I suppose to provide the cmd line option or implement this feature? If it is former, then, there is nothing I need to do. The command line processor just caches all the arguments. Just process the argument in your code and provide it while running. Look at nsApprunner.cpp or nsBrowserAppcore.cpp for example.
Radha, I think we were hoping you would implement it. apprunner -print foo.html should print the page without opening a window, and then quit. This will enable the macintosh to support the last of the four required appleevents. The Macintosh wiring is in already to use your excellent command-line repository thingummy, but no -print option has been implemented.
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
Target Milestone: M9 → M7
Alright, shll consider for M7
Component: Apprunner → Printing
QA Contact: leger → petersen
I think a -print option should be added for *ALL* platforms, not just the Mac... I would find the option pretty handy here on Linux whenever I wanted to print something from the commandline (which, being a Unix person, I often want to do).
Assignee: radha → dcone
Status: ASSIGNED → NEW
Summary: Macintosh requires a -print command-line option → [PP]Macintosh requires a -print command-line option
Assignee: dcone → radha
I dont think this belongs to me, I am giving it back to you... radha
Assignee: radha → don
Component: Printing → XPApps
Summary: [PP]Macintosh requires a -print command-line option → [RFE] Command-line -print option
Target Milestone: M7 → M14
This really isn't a Mac-sopecific issue. Let's move this out to M14 for consideration with the other RFEs.
It's important on Mac because Print is one of the 4 required AppleEvents, and -print is how that would be implemented (I imagine).
Summary: [RFE] Command-line -print option → [RFE] Command line "-print" option
Blocks: 11275
Target Milestone: M14 → M15
Move to M15 for later evaluation.
Move to M16 for now ...
Target Milestone: M15 → M16
*** Bug 31603 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 31603 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Bug 31603 was indeed a duplicate but I'd like to add something from 31603 that has not been mentioned here. It would be nice if the -print commandline optionally took the printer queue name as an arguement. Example: apprunner -print hp8100n-downstairs http://www.mozilla.org Under UNIX, the printer queue would default to 'lp' and under Windows, it would default to whatever printer is chosen as the system default.
Target Milestone: M16 → Future
Component: XP Apps → XP Apps: Cmd-line Features
Since Don has left, Vishy is taking his bugs in bulk, pending reassignment. thanks, Vishy
Assignee: don → vishy
Netscape Nav triage team: this is not a Netscape beta stopper.
Keywords: helpwanted, nsbeta1-
taking from vishy
Assignee: vishy → mcafee
QA Contact: petersen → sairuh
See also bug 68721, [rfe] print to postscript from command line.
->sujay, who tests printing.
QA Contact: sairuh → sujay
over to nobody
Assignee: mcafee → nobody
Summary: [RFE] Command line "-print" option → [RFE] Command line "-print" option: print the page
*** Bug 123185 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Summary: [RFE] Command line "-print" option: print the page → Command line "-print" option: print the page
why is this assigned to nobody? i'm sure that many people would appreciate this feature (including me). it would enable automatic conversions of webpages to ps, pds an grafic-formats on servers with no X.
I would really like this feature, too.
Isn't this a dupicate of bug 100571 ?
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 100571 ***
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 21 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Product: Core → Core Graveyard
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