191892 - RFE: print selected/boxed region/area

Status: NEW

(Core :: Printing: Output, enhancement, P5)

Description

[patrick]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212

It would be nice to have a printed boxed area menu option. Selecting this option
would allow you to selected a boxed region with the mouse and print just that.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Jesiah S]

Actually Mozilla has this feature.
All you have to do is
1. highlight some text
2. File->Print
3. Select Selection in print range
4. Click print 

Is this what you are looking for?

Comment 2

[patrick]

The print selected text is quite good but does not work well all the time, you
can only select text properly and the selection follows the sequential DOM
structure of the document which isn't always what you need since some HTML is
structured in a very weird manner.

What would be nice is if you could create a box, like in a draw program, for
example in the print preview page and just print that content.
 

Comment 3

[Roland Mainz]

Nice idea - and AFAIK easy to implement via rectangular clipping... :)

Comment 4

[Robert]

Attachment: print-section feature mockup

I was going to file this very bug, I guess I can't say that I thought of it first.

(mockup attached) / got my vote

would solve / workaround a few other outstanding bugs

bug#184152 easier/faster print selections
bug#234581 which frame to print
bug#202931 can't print textarea contents