252263 - transparent elements (css3 opacity) not visible in print or print preview

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 262019

(Core :: Printing: Output, defect)

Description

[Vincent de Phily]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8a3) Gecko/20040719
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8a3) Gecko/20040719

Any element with the "opacity" css3 property set to a (legal) value lower than
1.0 renders properly on screen but is invisible on print or print preview.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
<span style="opacity:0.5">print me !</span>
Actual Results:  
Invisible item when printing.

Expected Results:  
Same rendering as on screen.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Adding testcase to URL field.

On Linux, this may be due to Postscript not handling transparency, but why does
it break on Windows?

Comment 2

[Jesiah S]

I see the text printed using the testcase.  It is not transparent but it did
print. LInux 20041005006

Comment 3

[Adam Guthrie]

*** Bug 306595 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[s.marshall]

Yes, this still happens, a user of our system just reported it as a bug. I am
working around by using

@media "screen"
{
}

for the opacity rule.

Comment 5

[Andrew Schultz]

Duping to a later bug with a bit more info

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 262019 ***