231212 - printing or print preview of pages from msnbc.com causes large amount of bad output

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 212984

(Core :: Printing: Output, defect)

Description

[Bernie Borenstein]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113

I installed Mozilla 1.6 on a Winxp system, a Win2000 system and a linux system
(running Fedora Core 1).
When printing from the MSNBC website (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3980466/),
selecting print preview creates a 320 page print preview with just a header and
footer. Same thing when printing, it just grinds and creates an output with a
large number of messed up pages. My printer with the Winxp machines is a HP 1200
and the printer used with the other machines is an HP 8100DN. I really like the
new mozilla, but this is a killer on the MSNBC site. If anyone can shed light on
this problem, I would appreciate it.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Bring up page www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3980466/
2.Select print preview
3.It will produce a print preview with 320 pages.
4.Exit print preview and select print.  It will grind (the progess bar counts
very slowly (1%,2%,etc) and then will eventually start printing 320 pages with a
header and footer only.
Actual Results:  
Print Preview : 320 pages of just header and footer
Printing : 320 pages of just header and footer.

Expected Results:  
Mozilla should have printed the few pages correctly.

Comment 1

[Bogdan Stroe]

Confirming this using Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7a)
Gecko/20040121

Print Preview shows 316 pages, most of them empty. The actual text is on the
last 3 pages, and a part of it is not positioned correctly.

Reporter: do you see this problem on Linux?

Moving to Browser -> Printing

Comment 2

[Bernie Borenstein]

(In reply to comment #0)

Reporting that Mozilla 1.6 exhibits exactly the same behavior on Fedora Core linux.

Comment 3

[Bogdan Stroe]

Setting OS --> All

Comment 4

[Richard Hurt]

I can confirm this happens with almost any MSNBC article (at least all of the
ones on Slashdot :) from both Firefox 0.8 and Mozilla 1.6 & 1.7b.  

      OS: Windows XP / IBM ThinkPad R32
     RAM: 1GB
 PRINTER: Several different network printers (HPLJ4, HPLJ4000, HPLJ5, etc.)

Comment 5

[Richard Hurt]

Dupe of 212984

Comment 6

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

yep. dupe of bug 212984

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 212984 ***