Open Bug 106332 Opened 23 years ago Updated 2 years ago

[meta] [UX] Option to scale webpage content to fit a user specified number of pages

Categories

(Core :: Printing: Output, enhancement)

enhancement

Tracking

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Future

People

(Reporter: trudelle, Unassigned)

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Details

(Keywords: meta)

This is a feature tracking bug for:
bility to force a web page to fit on a specified number of printed pages (and
preview this)
    * Ability to force oversize pages (such as tables) to not have content cut
off/printed on separate page (by default)


Have plan , depends on new print preview feature above.
*** Bug 106333 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
er/ 3x posted

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 106335 ***
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 23 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Summary: Fit to Page print option → Fit to Page print option
verified...In the future please mark the newer bug a DUP of the older one.
not the other way around...thanks.
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
sujay: I do it with the most dupes (10633-> 106332) but in this case, bug 106355
contains more information (URL etc.) and then i decided to dupe this way...
This is a bug for tracking new feature work, not a dup of 106355.
Status: VERIFIED → REOPENED
Resolution: DUPLICATE → ---
THat was the wrong DUP...I'll DUP 106335 a dUP of this one...

adding URL from that bug in this bug...
*** Bug 106335 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Depends on: 110529
Blocks: 113701
Nominating for nsbeta1 per the MachV PRD requirements.
Keywords: meta, nsbeta1
Blocks: 102472
*** Bug 113702 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
what's the priority and target for this one? are we still planning to get this
in for MachV?
->law
Assignee: pchen → law
Status: REOPENED → NEW
We are not going to have "fit to page" in MachV.

We will support the "print scaling" capability so the user can change the
scaling to achieve fitting the output to whatever number of pages they desire.

Resetting target milestone and removing some blockers.
No longer blocks: 102472, 113701
Target Milestone: --- → Future
Marking as nsbeta1- for MachV per law's comment.
Keywords: nsbeta1nsbeta1-
*** Bug 126884 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Blocks: 125824
Keywords: nsbeta1-nsbeta1
adt: please nominate individual bugs.  
Keywords: nsbeta1
*** Bug 224493 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Is this bug really assigned to anyone?
no, shall i assign it to you?
Fit to Page was implemented in bug 100967 about two years ago.    Is this bug actually tracking 
anything at this point?
I had once requested (bug 224493) an option to fit the *LENGTH* of the document,
not the *WIDTH* of the document, to a fixed number of pages. My bug was supposed
to be rolled into this one, which reads about the same.

Again, the request is to fit the *length* of the document to a fixed amount of
pages. You can do this by repeatedly changing the scaling and previewing the
document until it comes out right, but this takes a *long* time, and sometimes
print-preview doesn't work.

Fitting the width of the document is not the same thing.
Please look at the options available for printing from OpenOffice: one option is to scale from the default size (which mozilla does), while another is to select the number of pages to expand or compress the document to.

FireFox has a lot of advanced features like tabbing (which I'm told will show up in the new version of Internet Explorer), and it's ironic that this usefule print feature got lost after Netscape 4....
This is still an issue with 

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071105 (CK-IBM) Firefox/2.0.0.9

Assignee: law → nobody
QA Contact: sujay → printing
No longer blocks: 84223
(In reply to comment #23)
> This is still an issue with 
> 
> Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071105 (CK-IBM)
> Firefox/2.0.0.9

there are no blocking bugs here, so is this tracking bug really needed?
or, is this really an issue, but doesn't need or deserve to be a meta?
This request has been hanging around to 10 years now.
At most, I see some confusion about fitting the printed page to the paper width, which is supported already, versus fitting to a fixed number of pages, which is the issue here.
Again, OpenOffice is a good example of how to do this. Also the old Netscape browser was able to do this.
Summary: Fit to Page print option → [UX] Option to scale webpage content to fit a user specified number of pages
Severity: normal → S3
Summary: [UX] Option to scale webpage content to fit a user specified number of pages → [meta] [UX] Option to scale webpage content to fit a user specified number of pages
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