123552 - printing black&white pattern over text incl. text position problem

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 103145

(Core :: Printing: Output, defect)

Description

[Harald Weis]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:0.9.7) Gecko/20020130
BuildID:    0000000000

Platform FreeBSD 4.4-Stable
The problem occurs with web pages from the Mac OS world.
Netscape Communicator 4.78 perfectly OK.
Mozilla 0.9.7 does print a mixture of text and sort of chessboard-type graphics
randomly distributed instead of the corresponding images.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.go to the page
2.print it (I am using a2ps)
3.

Actual Results:  The prints are practically not usable

Comment 1

[sujay]

I just tried on Windows and Linux and I get all the text
and the graphic at the top and bottom printed out fine..
I don't see any overlapping stuff you are talking about.

Please retry on latest Linux build.

Comment 2

[sujay]

Boris/Roland, can you reproduce this problem ?

Comment 3

[Harald Weis]

If it works on native Linux, then the port to FreeBSD 4.4-Stable does not work.
I tried both ports of 0.9.8, the `mozilla' port from source and the binary
`linux-mozilla' port. Exactly the same behaviour:

1. URL = http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/releases/mozilla0.9.8/src/
The problem has in fact nothing to with MacOS web pages

2. Print Preview is fine except for a Tab problem for the
`Last modified' , `Size' and `Description' columns.
All headers and footers are there, but on the very edge,
so that they will not be printed by the HP LaserJet 2100TN
except those bits you see on the attached mozilla.ps file.

HOW COULD I ATTACH THIS FILE ?
(I'll send it seperately to [e-mail])

3. The worst is obviously the black-and-white pattern over the main text area.

4. The Printer Properties for Paper Size and Color
    as well as Page Setup for Orientation are not saved
    on exit of mozilla.

Comment 4

[rods (gone)]

Where is the src for the FreeBSD port?

For item #2 you should be able to adjust the edge of the page gap via the
"Properties" dialog.

For item #4 we don't save them on exit anymore.

Comment 5

[Harald Weis]

The source was taken from
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/releases/mozilla0.9.8/linux-xpi/
as you can see from the "upgrade.log_www::linux-mozilla" file
which shows the whole story and which I must send you again separately
in a minute.

Comment 6

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

>  HOW COULD I ATTACH THIS FILE ?

Use the "Create a New Attachment" link on this page.  It's right under the
"keywords" section.

Comment 7

[Harald Weis]

Attachment: ps file showing the print output

Comment 8

[Harald Weis]

Thank you, Boris, here is the mozilla.ps attachment which shows the basic
printing bug on FreeBSD. I'm not sure whether it is useful to attach also the
upgrade logfile?

As to item #2 of my last comment, I cannot find how to shift the headers/footers
from the edge of the page: Neither the "Page Setup" dialog nor the "Printer
Properties" dialog seem to allow it. While searching for this I found a new item #5:

5. In the "Page Setup" dialog, the six header/footer fields (Left, Center,
Right) cannot be modified from the keyboard, the keyboard can only clear the
fields. You need the mouse to move e.g. "&T" from "Left" to "Center". Bizzare.
The fields do only accept figures 0 to 9 from the keyboard.

  
 

Comment 9

[Niels Weber]

I've got the same problem in Linux.
It's on every page that has pictures on it.
It seems as if one of the pictures is printed really big over the first page,
the following pages are not affected.
The print preview looks right.

Comment 10

[Harald Weis]

I've removed all references to linux-mozilla and then reinstalled the
linux-mozilla port (version 0.9.8, distfiles are taken from the
mozilla/releases/mozilla${PORTVERSION}/linux-xpi/ directories).
Installation went smoothly. The big bug with the GIF images has gone.
But here is the list of old and new bugs I have found:
1. On print output: title text partly overlapping and text columns not in line
(e.g. on ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub), both being a bit worse on Print Preview
2. /usr/local/lib/linux-mozilla/defaults/pref/unix.js:
Mozilla does accept
``pref("print.print_command", "a2ps -d");'' and
``pref("print.print_headerfooter_gap", 400); // twips'' (I need `400')
But Mozilla does not accept
``pref("print.print_paper_size", 3); // A4'' (I want `A4' as default)
3. the new big bug comes with the mail client:
the IMAP server does not get the correct user password (as if the password were
encrypted). There is no problem with POP servers.
4. and finally it occurs frequently, but not systematically, that Mozilla
suddenly exits when I jump from one page to the other (please note that I didn't
try other websites than ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/et cetera)

I fear I will give up and wait for version 0.9.9 

Comment 11

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

This bug as originally reported is fixed as of two days ago.  It only appeared
on Unix when printing and the screen resolution is set to 71, 72, or 73dpi.  The
fix is _not_ in 0.9.9, so you'll have to either wait for 1.0 or set your dpi to
something smaller than 71 or something larger than 73.

Marking duplicate, please file separate bugs on other problems you may have.

Thanks for trying Mozilla and reporting bugs!

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 103145 ***

Comment 12

[sujay]

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