103203 - Problems printing FrontPage quote character

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Printing: Output, defect)

Description

[Grant Bowman]

I intend to create a test case later for this unless someone beats me to it.

" characters print fine.  When a real quote character comes along, there is
a box and the next few words are omitted.  This makes printouts with Mozilla
useless since it's missing data.

Comment 1

[Grant Bowman]

Attachment: Reproducable HTML test case

Comment 2

[Grant Bowman]

This is reproducable in both quirks and standard mode.  My example comes
from a FrontPage created file I cut down to size.  It's actually not happening
with real quotes, just the ~T that shows up in my VIM editor.  Konqueror printed
it OK and due to the high likelihood of encountering similar files I think this
is something that is worth fixing.

Comment 3

[Keith Briscoe]

This is a dupe of bug#92189.

FYI--overview: Mozilla corrects FrontPage's "smart quotes" for display, but
doesn't correct them for printing.  Mozilla's behavior is technically correct
because it's FrontPage's problem (broken font encoding), but I think the
consensus so far is that we're gonna work around this rather than make MS fix
their fonts.

Comment 4

[Grant Bowman]

Ah, yeah, I see some of the issues.  However the difference between your
92189 and the real problem I was trying to describe is data loss during
printing.  It's not just the character itself, but several words after
the bad quote thing that do not show up.
 
So I see what you mean by duplicate and I realize it's Microsoft being
stupid, but this bug will bite users on the ass when they try to print
something that looks fine on the screen and get ****.  For me this makes
printing with Mozilla unreliable and unusable due to data loss.
 
Just my $.02, thanks for looking into this.

Comment 5

[Keith Briscoe]

Sorry, I'm a fellow volunteer with no real authority and I clearly didn't
examine your bug closely enough.  Looks like this really is a different bug, so
have at it, Mozilla crew!

Comment 6

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

Bugs targeted at mozilla1.0 without the mozilla1.0 keyword moved to mozilla1.0.1 
(you can query for this string to delete spam or retrieve the list of bugs I've 
moved)

Comment 7

[Pete Zha]

Can not see this bug on recently trunk and release 1.0.

Comment 8

[Pete Zha]

Attachment: output for first testcase (.ps.gz)

Comment 9

[Pete Zha]

dup of bug 68373?

Comment 10

[Pete Zha]

Sorry, I meant dup of bug 67338.

Comment 11

[Vedran Miletic]

retargeting

Comment 12

[Kenneth Herron]

I can't reproduce this problem, and it's not visible in the postscript sample
from comment #8. I have no doubt this was a valid issue when reported but it
doesn't seem to be any more. Resolving WFM.