214654 - Items sized with specific layout (i.e. 6.5in) print larger when printed with Mozilla 1.4 (used to work in earlier version)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 211092

(Core :: Printing: Output, defect)

Description

[Lee Strayer]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624

This page uses CSS to size the page elements with absolute sizing in inches.
Prints under earlier version fine, but prints much larger with 1.4. Width is
easily off by 1 - 1.5 inches from what should print.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Go to the listed URL.
2. Print the page.
3. Measure it. Page elements should be 5.5in (14cm) wide. 

Actual Results:  
Elements printed slightly over 6.5in (16.8cm).

Expected Results:  
Should have printed elements 5.5in (14cm) wide, according to the CSS file.

Comment 1

[Michael B. Venezia]

Attachment: Testcase showing problem

This file will display correctly in IE 6, Mozilla/Firebird (windows, linux)
(haven't tested it on others) in the normal browser, however when you go to
print preview in the windows versions of Mozilla/Firebird it will no longer
display correctly.

The attempt is to print quarter sheet boxes.

I have noticed that this happened sometime after Mozilla 1.3 (pretty sure, its
1.3, know that it worked <= Mozilla 1.2.

One should also turn off all headers & footers, and make page margins all 0.

Comment 2

[Michael B. Venezia]

Actually in my testcase I made a small typo and forgot a colon after size
(size:) for the @page rule, but correcting this doesn't appear to make a difference.

the HTML & CSS check through w3's validators.

Further, while linux Mozilla doesn't display it correctly (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U;
Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030804 Mozilla Firebird/0.6.1) -- there
appears to be an indentation across the entire third page, windows mozilla is a
trainwreck.

Comment 3

[Manko]

Seems this isn't a dependency of bug 211092 but only a dupe of it.

Comment 4

[Malcolm Rowe]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 211092 ***