194626 - Invariably, Print Preview shows more pages of output than results from actual printing on an HP 960c. Page breaks are not correct. Using hp deskjet v4.3 printer driver.

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core :: Print Preview, defect)

Description

[Critz George]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130

This is a simple bug to reproduce.  It happens on virtually every, if not every
web page I try to print.  The URL above demonstrates the problem, plus a
variant.   If you go through the step-by-step procedure below and then return to
the web page and ask again for a "print preview" the number of pages of expected
output increases form 8 to 15.

The whole print preview facility needs reworking, we need the ability to block
images or background color (to save ink) and to reduce text size independent of
images.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Pick any lengthy web page
2. Do Browser "Print Preview" & note number of pages expected
3. Select "Print" with hp deskjet 960c
4a. On printer dialog box click "preview" and count pages to be printed, OR
4b. On printer dialog box click "OK" and count number of pages actually printed.
5. Compare actual resulting page breaks with Browser Print Preview.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Mac classic builds are "dead"