238415 - Overlapping text in Print Preview when using tables

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Core :: Print Preview, defect)

Description

[Mary Hoetzel]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4.1) Gecko/20031008
Build Identifier: Problem occurs in various versions (1.4, 1.7b)

The redbook pages are arranged in 3 columns defined as tables with the actual
redbook text in the column in the middle. In Print Preview, the text in the
center column occasionally overlaps the right column.

I tried this on 
1) Windows with Mozilla 1.4 and 1.7b with proportional font size=13 in
Preferences. Here, increasing the proportional font size to 16 shows almost no
overlapping, and increasing the size to 18 shows no overlapping.
2) Redhat Fedora Linux: Problem exists and gets worse with increasing
proportional font size. If font size is small enough, problem is not visible.
3) AIX: Problem exists no matter what proportional font size.

This might be related to bug 109970 but I'm not sure because of the table structure.
   

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Goto http://www.redbooks.ibm.com
2. Select one of the redbook links on the right side
3. Open Print Preview

Comment 1

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

*** Bug 238416 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2

[Mary Hoetzel]

Attachment: Screen Shot of Print Preview that shows the problem

Comment 3

[Christopher Nehren]

Moving to NEW / OS: All. Confirmed with Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386;
en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040323 Firefox/0.8.0+.

Comment 4

[Max Alekseyev]

I see similar problem with Print Preview at
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-osmig1.html

Interestingly, despite the overlaping text in Print Preview, the actual printout
does not have the problem.

Comment 5

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Everything at redbooks is reorganized, so I don't see a useful testcase there