132712 - Print comes out blank printing asp document.

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Printing: Output, defect)

Description

[Steve]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020311
BuildID:    2002031104

This page from a online newspaper is probably not accessable, since it is
changed daily withe the publication of each issue of the print edition. 
http://www.havasunews.com/havasunews/myarticles.asp?P=501798&S=463&PubID=8811&EC=0

However, when I printed it on my postscript printer, it printed mostly blank,
with the exception of the .gif headline logo and the statement about subscribing
to the print edition at the top. 

Admittedly that document has some problems, it prints wrong (though not blank)
with netscape 4.7, (some lines of text missing in the article). 

It prints correctly with IE. 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open page
2.Select print from file menu
3.Page prints, with most of the contents blank. Only the .gif logo at the top
and the top line print. 
4.Print preview has the same defect, it indicates what will print, which is
incorrect. So the problem is then NOT in the printer. 

Actual Results:  Page prints without most contents. 

Expected Results:  Page should print like on the screen, which IS correct. 
Screen renders fine.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Dup of one of the floater printing bugs...

Comment 2

[sujay]

do we have a dup on this ?

Comment 3

[sujay]

confirming....I only get the banner printed out...remaining content
does not print out. using 3/22 trunk build on win 98

Comment 4

[rods (gone)]

Really need a testcase, futuring until I get one

Comment 5

[Steve]

What test case do you need? 

http://www.havasunews.com/
has the same problem today. 

Comment 6

[Steve]

>What test case do you need? 
>
>http://www.havasunews.com/
>has the same problem today. 

And you don't even need to print it, it previews incorrectly. 

Comment 7

[Steve]

This may be related to the printer bug that I reported long ago. 
Version
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.2) Gecko/20021126

This page
http://www.virtualcities.com/ons/tx/gov/txgvkh1.htm
views correctly, however prints incorrectly. 
The print preview is also incorrect, The printer formfeeds after the line
Kay's Shadywood Showdown Chili. 

Also, you will notice the menu on the left does not appear on the print preview.
This seems related. 

http://www.virtualcities.com/ons/wy/gov/wygvme10.htm
prints and previews correctly. 

http://www.virtualcities.com/ons/ne/gov/negov95.htm
Prints and previews incorrectly.  
It may have a missing </td> table tag.  Heh. 

Which may be the problem.  The browser works fine with the missing tag, the
printer has a problem. 

From the page source. 

===========================================================================
http://www.virtualcities.com/ons/ne/gov/negov95.htm
      <tr>
        <td WIDTH="100%" VALIGN="TOP" COLSPAN="3" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF">

        <table WIDTH="100%">
          <tr>
            <td> <img SRC="/ons/ne/gov/negov9a.jpg" ALIGN="LEFT" ALT="photo of
the Honorable Benjamin Nelson, Senator from Nebraska" WIDTH="204" HEIGHT="269">
              </td>
            <td>
            
            <h1 ALIGN="CENTER"><b>The Honorable



===========================================================================

http://www.virtualcities.com/ons/wy/gov/wygvme10.htm

</tr>
      <tr>
        <td WIDTH="100%" VALIGN="TOP" COLSPAN="3" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF">

        <table WIDTH="100%">
          <tr>
            <td>
            
            <h1 ALIGN="CENTER"><b>The Honorable Michael B. Enzi</b></h1>

Comment 8

[Andrew Schultz]

the URL is 404
with linux trunk 2005032305, www.havasunews.com print previews fine as do a
couple URLs from comment 7

Steve: is the still a problem with recent builds?

Comment 9

[Steve]

I think the printing problem has been resolved.  It is not clear whether the
problem was solved in Mozilla or was solved by the site in the test case, though
my opinion is that the site cleaned up their HTML.  At any rate the original
site is no longer online.  The ones in #7 seem correct now, so the problem may
have been solved in Mozilla though I doubt it.  It is hard to say for sure.  Sorry. 

Comment 10

[Kevin Brosnan]

Worksforme per the previous comment in this bug.