Thunderbird Printing problems

[Bernhard]

Jack Jackson schrieb:
> squareyes wrote:
>> Jack Jackson wrote:
>>> squareyes wrote:
>>>> Hi all,
>>>> am having problems printing out emails from Thunderbird.
>>>> Printer is HP Laserjet 1100, works fine from OpenOffice, gedit etc.
>>>> Will not print from the "print" in the file menu, and only sometimes
>>>> will
>>>> it print from the "print" icon.When clicking on either it shows that
>>>> it is printing,
>>>> but does not show any print dialog, only shuts down Thunderbird.
>>>> Does anyone have any ideas as to what I am doing wrong?
>>>> Thanks in advance,
>>>> Take Care,
>>>> Winton
>>>>
>>> THis is going to sound weird but try this:
>>>
>>> When you open Thunderbird, select File -> Page Setup. WHen that
>>> dialog opens, click OK. Then try printing.
>>>
>>> Let us know if it works
>>>
>> Hi Jack,
>> thanks a lot, that works. Hope I haven't broken anything to cause
>> this. :-)
>> Take Care
>> Winton
>>
> 
> Isn't that the weirdest thing? I was so grateful when someone else
> pointed out the "fix" to this bug. I do hope the actuall bug gets fixed
> soon, but it's a nice workaround.
> 
> JJ

There is actually another quite nasty bug open in the thunderbird
bugzilla for a long time. It's not possible to print a selection of an
email. You can work-around this by editing the message, though, however
it seems that this bug probably won't be fixed ever, not even in 1.5.