153332 - Printing only renders single page

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 154892

(Core :: Printing: Output, defect, P3)

Description

[Rob Adams]

Both Print preview and Printing of the page reported results in only 1 page
being printed, instead of what should most likely be 3 or 4

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

All the content on this site is absolutely positioned.  Given that CSS, the only
really viable option per spec is to lay it out in the print medium like we do, I
think...  Nevertheless this sucks.  Ian?  David?  Ideas?

Comment 2

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

Interesting. Very interesting.

We should print overflowing content. The question is, what page number do we
give overflow pages? And how much overflow do we consider worth printing? (Does
a box positioned at top:500000cm get all the in between pages?)

Comment 3

[Eric A. Meyer (dead account)]

This one reminds me of the "floated elements get cut off" report (bug 85768). 
One suggestion for the original reporter: try giving your content 'position:
static' in a print-media stylesheet.  This will let you work around the problem
while the engineers work on a fix for these problems.

Comment 4

[Michael Lefevre]

don't think is strictly a dupe of that, so I guess this should be confirmed. right?

Comment 5

[Patrick]

*** Bug 186897 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6

[Andreas Lange]

Seems the original testpage is gone. Here is another with the same kind of
absolute div that breaks printing and print preview (tested with 1.6b)...
http://barbapapqa.dyndsl.com/svenska.shtml


If anyone cares, OS/hardware could be changed to all.

Comment 7

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

dupping to bug with more info.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 154892 ***