Bug 2828 - PrintDocument.Print on Lion causes a stay on hold until authorization is provided each time
Summary: PrintDocument.Print on Lion causes a stay on hold until authorization is prov...
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: Class Libraries
Classification: Mono
Component: System.Drawing ()
Version: 2.10.x
Hardware: Macintosh Mac OS
: Lowest normal
Target Milestone: Untriaged
Assignee: Bugzilla
URL:
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2012-01-10 05:38 UTC by Dimitar Dobrev
Modified: 2012-01-24 08:24 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Is this bug a regression?: ---
Last known good build:

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A test case (4.44 KB, application/x-zip)
2012-01-10 05:38 UTC, Dimitar Dobrev 		Details

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Description Dimitar Dobrev 2012-01-10 05:38:53 UTC 
Created attachment 1155 [details]
A test case

Steps to reproduce:
1. Have a printer connected to a Windows network;
2. Add the printer to a mac (through System Preferences -> Print & Fax -> etc.) - this will require a Windows user with his password to be entered once;
3. Run the attached sample with a Mono between 2.10.5 and 2.10.6 included.

Expected results:
An empty page is immediately printed.

Actual results:
The document stays indefinitely in the printing queue with a text "On hold (authentication required)". To print, each time the document must be selected in the printing queue, then clicking "Resume" will show a dialogue for the user and password used when adding the Windows printer and after confirmation printing will complete.


As hinted above, version 2.10.4 and less (excluding, of course, versions that do not work at all on Lion) work fine. I cannot check 2.10.8 because there PrintDocument.Print causes a crash, as described in http://bugzilla.xamarin.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2734.
Comment 1 Miguel de Icaza [MSFT] 2012-01-13 18:55:09 UTC 
Currently Windows.Forms on the Mac has no maintainer.

We encourage the community to submit patches to it.
Comment 2 Dimitar Dobrev 2012-01-13 20:54:00 UTC 
It's not a Windows Forms application, it's a GTK# one but which uses System.Drawing.Printing. Sorry for not clearing that up initially.
Comment 3 Miguel de Icaza [MSFT] 2012-01-14 15:39:05 UTC 
We consider System.Drawing part of the Winforms stack, so we really hope someone in the community looks for the fix and provides a patch.
Comment 4 Dimitar Dobrev 2012-01-24 03:19:41 UTC 
Are there alternatives for printing on the mac then? Or do you have a guess where could the problem be? This is a blocker issue for us.
Comment 5 Miguel de Icaza [MSFT] 2012-01-24 08:24:26 UTC 
Hello Dimitar,

There are a few options:

* Engage a consultant that can develop/fix the existing code base to ensure that it works and submit the code to us for distribution.

* Use MonoMac's APIs to print.

* Generate a PDF file, and then use Applescript to load the PDF into the Preview program and instruct it to print it.

Miguel