117072 - [REPRO]Screen and scrollbar gets messed up in print preview

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Core :: Printing: Output, defect)

Description

[Joonas Paalasmaa]

Screen gets messed up in print preview. It can be reproduced with any page.

Comment 1

[Joonas Paalasmaa]

Attachment: Picture of the messed up screen.

Comment 2

[Jerome Lacoste]

Adding info from attachment (screenshot of 'about:'): 

Mozilla 0.9.7
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:0.9.7) Gecko/20011221

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

This was also mentioned in bug 116343.  Confirming.

Comment 4

[sujay]

confirming..I see the problem also...

Comment 5

[sujay]

*** Bug 117083 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6

[sujay]

scrollbar also gets messed up...

nominating nsbeta1

Comment 7

[Waheed Islam]

*** Bug 117095 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8

[Jens Müller (:tessarakt)]

Confirmed for Build 2001122611.

The scrollbars are completely messed up, but also the margins.

Comment 9

[Colin Blake]

How the heck did M0.9.7 manage to ship with this bug???

Comment 10

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Colin, print preview currently has no functioning keyboard shortcuts and broken 
scrolling.  The browser UI is effectively severely crippled in this mode...  I 
think it's being treated as an experimental feature for milestone testing 
purposes...

Comment 11

[Colin Blake]

Boris, I understand that this feature is still under development, but this is a 
major regression in M0.9.6 where it worked pretty well.

Comment 12

[Roland Mainz]

... and I cannot select/copy text in print preview mode ...

Comment 13

[rods (gone)]

I am not sure why this is all screwed up......

Roland, you won't ever be able to select and copy text in PP

Comment 14

[Roland Mainz]

[e-mail] wrote:
> Roland, you won't ever be able to select and copy text in PP

Why ? Why isn't "print preview" just another browser "mode" ?

Comment 15

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

*** Bug 117333 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 16

[rods (gone)]

Roland, are there other apps that you can select/copy while in Print Preview?
Although, I see that it would be useful I don't think there is much of a
precedent for it. And right now selection and the rendering of selection just
doesn't work at all in PP. Feel free to file RFE, but it won't get looked at for
a very long time.

Comment 17

[rods (gone)]

Is this reproducable onWin98 with a specific page. I haven't see it do this.

Comment 18

[sujay]

*** Bug 117860 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 19

[sujay]

Rod, happens with any page...

Comment 20

[sujay]

*** Bug 117969 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 21

[Dom Incollingo]

Using Mozilla build ID 2002010303 on Windows 2000, I get very inconsistent
results with Print Preview.

On page http://java.sun.com/, the screen image is completely distored when Print
Preview is selected, and the browser freezes completely.  (Windows Task Manager
indicates Mozilla is 'not responding'.)   It is necessary to terminate Mozilla
via Task Manager.

On page http://www.visitor.calgary.ab.ca/, the screen image appears normal when
Print Preview is selected, and Windows Task Manager indicates that Mozilla is
'running'.   However, neither the Refresh button nor the Back button work
properly after Print Preview is selected.   Refresh does not return the screen
image to its normal state; Back does not go back to a prior page.   The only way
to leave the Print Preview mode is to terminate Mozilla in Windows Task Manager.

On page http://www.netscape.com/, Print Preview appears to work normally.   
Both the Back and Reload buttons work properly following the selection of Print
Preview.

Comment 22

[dcone (gone)]

Taking

Comment 23

[dcone (gone)]

Attachment: Small patch to set the background paint to true before painting.

Patch to fix all the blackness in PrintPreview when the background painting is
turned off.

Comment 24

[rods (gone)]

PLEASE check this in!!!!!
r=rods

Comment 25

[dcone (gone)]

Attachment: fixed some small.. problems from the last patch.

Comment 26

[sujay]

*** Bug 118519 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 27

[Marc Attinasi]

Comment on attachment 63818 [details] [diff] [review]
fixed some small.. problems from the last patch.

sr=attinasi

Comment 28

[dcone (gone)]

*** Bug 118888 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 29

[Martin Poirier]

related to comment #16,

> Roland, are there other apps that you can select/copy while in Print Preview?

WordPerfect 9 and 10, and maybe even wordperfect 8

I agree though that this behaviour isn't common, a "print preview" is usually to
show what your print would look like, not to manipulate the content.

Comment 30

[dcone (gone)]

Attachment: Temporary fix for print peview.. will make sure print preview always has backgrounds turned on.

Comment 31

[rods (gone)]

compiled and test - look good r=rods

Comment 32

[Marc Attinasi]

Comment on attachment 65069 [details] [diff] [review]
Temporary fix for print peview.. will make sure print preview always has backgrounds turned on.

sr=attinasi

Fix the comment though, it is incomplete and has a typo: 
+  // only turn of background printing if its a

Also, won't this turn on backgrounds for printing to printer as well? Is that
what you want?

Comment 33

[Chu Alan #2]

it seems that the patch worked ... :)
not seeing this bug anymore (up to now).

+Adding myself to CC

Comment 34

[dcone (gone)]

fixed.. and checked in.. actually before the close.

Comment 35

[sujay]

looks fine to me now...

marking verified-fixed..

Joonas, REOPEN if you still see a problem...shoud work now in latest build.