215397 - Sized HTML elements with absolute units (cm, pt...) are "zoomed" on print

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 211092

(Core :: Printing: Output, defect)

Description

[Mathieu CARTOIXA]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 4.0)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; fr-FR; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624

If I design a page containing sized elements with absolute units (cm, pt...), 
the print rendering is scaled by a factor ~1.25. For instance, a table which 
width is set to 2cm will be printed with a width ~2.5cm. This appear to occur 
with every elements on the page. Text, for instance : 7pt Arial with Mozilla is 
printed bigger than 8pt Arial with Word...
Note that the print rendering seems to be coherent with the print preview 
rendering.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a page with fixed sized elements (in cm)
2. Print the page
Actual Results:  
The printed elements are bigger (* ~1.25) than what you expected



OS : Windows NT 4.0 (SP6) French
Paper size : A4

Comment 1

[Mathieu CARTOIXA]

Attachment: Test page

In this quite simple HTML page, a table is defined, with its width set to 19cm.
But it wouldn't fit in an A4 page (21cm large) ! The first column is set to 2cm
large, but the printed version is 2.5cm large, etc...

Comment 2

[Jim Davis]

Is this a duplicate of bug 211092?

Comment 3

[Mathieu CARTOIXA]

It is a duplicate indeed... Sorry for the inconvenience.

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