200861 - Several lines near the bottom of the article text are missing when printed

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Printing: Output, defect)

Description

[cheljuba]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312

If this article remains as it is currently, it contains a paragraph beginning
"Highs on Saturday ..."  When printed, a big chunk of text is missing from mid
sentence.  I've noticed this happens with many CNN articles, and with Netscape
7.02 as well.

I'm printing to an HP laserjet 2100.  It doesn't matter which driver (PCL 5, PCL
6, Postscript) I use -- all exhibit the problem.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.load and print the page
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
Partial printout of the article

Expected Results:  
Complete printout

This is a fresh, initial install of Mozilla.  I was hoping it would not exhibit
the same problem I had seen (and reported weeks ago) in Netscape.

Comment 1

[Jason Barnabe (np)]

WFM, WinXP 2003040504 HP Deskjet 600

Comment 2

[Jeffrey Knauth]

I have seen a similar lost-lines problem on Moz 1.4 and have just
recreated it on Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5b)
Gecko/20030812.

When I printed http://www.february-7.com/features/conan.htm, a line was
lost after the breaks between the second to third page and the third to
fourth page.  No lines were lost between the first and second pages.
The print preview was missing lines in exactly the same two places.

I ran the tests using two different printers, an IBM 4029 laser printer
and an HP DeskJet 722C.  Although the pages were formatted differently
for the two, causing a different number of lines per page, in each case
the results were the same:  No lines lost between pages 1->2, but lines
were lost between pages 2->3 and 3->4.  Different lines were lost for
each printer because the breaks were at different places in the text.   

Comment 3

[Alex Eng]

The URL given in this report is no longer valid.  Can you give another example
URL, or better yet a test case, that demonstrates this bug?  Need to see if this
could be related in any way to bug 216195 or bug 220102

Comment 4

[James Napolitano]

Since there's been no response to comment 3, and since the issue in comment 2 is
now being covered in bug 216195, I am closing this bug.  Feel free to reopen it
if you merely provide another CNN URL where this bug occurs.