1867256 - [Needs Google fix] Blank pages are displayed in Print Preview for GDocs

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Core :: Print Preview, defect)

Description

[Vlad Lucaci, Thunderbird QA (:vlucaci)]

Attachment: Blank pages in print preview.gif

Found in

• 122.0a1(20231129050021)

Affected versions

• 122.0a1(20231129050021)

Tested platforms

• Affected platforms: macOS 14, Ubuntu 22, Windows 11

Steps to reproduce

1. Open the following links : Link 1, Link 2
2. Open Print Preview.

Expected result

• The pages are correctly displayed without any blank pages or visual artefacts

Actual result

• The pages are displayed incorrectly with multiple blank pages in between content pages.

Additional notes

• This issue also occurs with the actual print output.
• This issue occurs regardless of selected page size, margins, color mode, etc

Comment 1

[Jonathan Watt [:jwatt]]

Going into File > Page setup and checking the page settings that apply to the whole document, both these documents are set to A4.

Non-Letter sizes are currently expected to have issues due to Google using .size instead of .setProperty(). They've changed to the latter, and that should be live around the 12th December. I expect that to fix this along with a bunch of the other bugs blocking our meta bug.

Comment 2

[Jonathan Watt [:jwatt]]

Google has fixed up their code to use setProperty (working around bug 1867106), which appears to have fixed this.

Comment 3

[Vlad Lucaci, Thunderbird QA (:vlucaci)]

Confirming this issue as verified fixed and no longer reproducible on Ubuntu 22, Windows11 and macOS 14.