429638 - Printing errors: overlaping characters in Firefox 2.0.0.13

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 403513

(Core :: Printing: Output, defect)

Description

[Matěj Cepl]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9b5) Gecko/2008041301 Fedora/3.0-0.54.beta5.fc9 Firefox/3.0b5
Build Identifier: Firefox 2.0.0.13 on Fedora 8/x86_64

(originally filed as Fedora bug# 442669 -- http://bugzilla.redhat.com/442669)

Printing and printing to file with Firefox-2.0.0.13, causes "compressed words
and pharases". I'm not sure what the problem is exactly. Thus far I've seen it
in i386 and x86_64 Firefox; and on Fedora 7 and 8. I thought I had reported this
problem another time with Firefox and printing (and printing to file) and
apparently the consensus was that this was an upstream problem on how did
Firefox handled the PostScript conversion of the data or something along those
lines. At any rate, I've come across this problem again, and I'm not sure if it
was fixed "the first" time. By the way what I see in the print-to-file and print
to paper "print-outs" is the same.

This doesn't happen with Konqueror, but does happen with other Gecko-based browsers (Galeon and Epiphany), the difference seems to be the degree of "deformation" they produce in the print-out. Also firefox and Gecko based browsers in F8 seem to deform only certain parts of the documents, but instead of still being legible, some lines are but a black stain.

Could be well illustrated by printing of the URL to file.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.print the page with URL given
2.
3.
Actual Results:  
on the page 2 and following text is absolutely unreadable

Expected Results:  
nice printout

Comment 1

[Matěj Cepl]

Attachment: Printout from the original reporter

Comment 2

[Matěj Cepl]

Attachment: Attempt to reproduce with Firefox 3

With Firefox 3 on Fedora Rawhide the result is still not perfect although miles better than the case in question.

Comment 3

[Martin Stránský [:stransky] (ni? me)]

Looks like another dupe of 403513