239755 - Print Selection shouldn't highlight text on printout

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 90434

(Core :: Printing: Output, defect)

Description

[Bartosz Wucke]

I just printed the part of the page given in URL, trying to save on paper I
decided to strip the header and footer.

Steps to reproduce:
1. Select content of the page given in the URL, without header and footer.
2. Select "file>print...", "print selection", "OK."

Expected result:
The printout is text from the highlighted range, black on white background, as
originally rendered without selection.

Actual results:
Background of the letters is grey on the printout, just like on the screen at
the moment of pressing "print" - that is with all the selection I had used to
mark part to be printed.

Printing out the selection highlight could make sense while printing
all/selected pages, so the user could highlight interesting pieces of the whole
text. Printing the highlight itself when everything to be printed is highlighted
and the highlight is only marking the printout boundaries definitely misses its
point.
Note if I click on the page to remove the selection highlight, and print page
ranges, the text appears without the grey background - the origin of the grey
background is selection of the text, as rendered on screen.


Config: Linux 2.6.1-gentoo-r1, CUPS 1.1, filter Foomatic/hpijs, printer:
hpdj845c, USB.
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040210

Comment 1

[Max Alekseyev]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 90434 ***