208861 - printouts of web pages distorted, clipped on right side

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 84223

(Core :: Printing: Output, defect)

Description

[Chris Griffith]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030529
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030529

Starting with Mozilla 1.4a, I get distorted printouts from certain web pages. 
On-screen display is fine. The printed page looks "cut off" on the right-hand
side, as if Mozilla thought the page was wider than the actual print media.

Something like this:
<pre>
|                                |
|first line, not clipped         | 
|this line gets clipped. like thi|
|this line is also clipped becaus|
|                                |
</pre>

Also, on Mac OS X only, HTML form elements (text input boxes, dropdown menus,
submit buttons, etc) appear disproportionately large on printout as compared
with on-screen.  

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go the the example URL
2. Print the page to a printer, or click the "Save as PDF" button (Mac OS X
10.2) and save the page as a PDF file and view it.
Actual Results:  
(See Details section)

Expected Results:  
What it did in 1.3.1 and earlier -- e.g. not clip the right side or distort the
size of form controls.

Comment 1

[Chris Griffith]

Test URL was briefly broken, now fixed. Also added a PDF showing the print
distortion. See: <http://web.mit.edu/cggriffi/www/testcase.pdf>

Verified that this behavior still continues in Mozilla 1.4-final.

Comment 2

[Bill McGonigle (not currently reading bugmail; please contact directly)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 84223 ***