640449 - Save as PDF produces incorrect page size (6.67 x 11.11)

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Patrick Wood]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110303 Firefox/3.6.15
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Android; Linux amv7; rv:2.0b13pre) Gecko/20110309 Firefox/4.0b13pre Fennec/4.0b6pre

Save as PDF on Android Fennec generates the wrong page size (6.67 x 11.11 inches according to Acrobat Reader).  The size should be 8.5 x 11 (letter).  Linux and Windows desktop Fennec emulator produces 8.5 x 11 pages.

printSettings.paperWidth and printSettings.paperHeight) are correct prior to calling webBrowserPrint.print(printSettings, listener); in chrome/content/content.js.

Observed in beta 4, beta 5, and latest nightly build.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to any page (about:home is fine).
2. Select "Save as PDF"
3. Pull file to host (adb -d pull /sdcard/download/"Fennec Start.pdf" .
4. Open file in acrobat reader, check page size.
Actual Results:  
Acrobat reader reports page size as 6.67x11.11 instead of 8.5x11.

Expected Results:  
Acrobat reader should report page size as 8.5x11.

Desktop Fennec simulator produces 8.5x11 inch page as expected.

Comment 1

[Patrick Wood]

Attachment: Android screen capture of msnbc.com site

Screen capture of msnbc.com web site from Dell Streak (480x800); see also msnbc.pdf file, which shows the PDF saved from this site with clipped right-hand side of the page.  Observed in latest nightly build (fennec-6.0a1.en-US.eabi-arm.apk 21-Apr-2011 04:58).

Comment 2

[Patrick Wood]

Attachment: Saved PDF from msnbc.com

See description of msnbc.png attachment.

Comment 3

[Catalin Suciu [:csuciu]]

I was able to reproduce the "page size" issue on: 
Mozilla/5.0 (Android;Linux armv7l;rv:9.0a1)Gecko/20110902 Firefox/9.0a1 Fennec/9.0a1
Device: HTC Desire
OS: Android 2.2

I cannot reproduce the "clipped page" issue mentioned in comment #2.

Comment 4

[Patrick Wood]

I believe that the two problems I originally reported are interrelated: the PDF page size corresponds to the screen size on the two Android devices I used for testing (480x800); however, it should probably be either letter or A4.  Several printers balked when I tried to print the page, requiring manual intervention.

Clipped pages only occur on some web sites, perhaps those that perform some kind of automagic scaling to the screen width.

Comment 5

[Michelle Luna]

A Motorola Xoom user reported the "right side clipped" page issue on SUMO this week, see https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/questions/885674

Comment 6

[contacto]

firefox18.0 on Android
When we save to PDF the size reported by evince is 169 × 282 mm

Comment 7

[jscher2000]

In Firefox 45.0:

I still get 6.67" x 11.11" with Page > Save as PDF (DownloadPDFSaver.execute in DownloadCore.jsm)

I also get 6.67" x 11.11" with Page > Print (new generatePDF function in PrintHelper.js)

The main differences between the two appears to be:

(1) These two properties are true for Save as PDF and false for Print: printSettings.printBGImages, printSettings.printBGColors

(2) Save as PDF clears the headers and footers.

Neither function sets an output paperHeight, paperWidth, or paperSizeUnit. However, I don't know whether that would make any difference -- setting the equivalent preferences in about:config doesn't appear to have any effect.

Comment 8

[BMO Automation]

Closing all opened bug in a graveyard component