258780 - System crashes when I'm using the composer and print to a file (PDF) rather than to the printer using a program called Win2PDF. This occurs ONLY if the text contains "http://" at the start of a URL,

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Core :: Printing: Output, defect)

Description

[Pete Petrakis]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803

If I print from the Composer to an Adobe PDF file (using a program called
Win2PDF)  and the text contains a URL in the form "http://www.someplace.com,"
Windows XP system crashes every time and the PDF I tried to create has zero
length. If I remove "http://" from the URL, leaving only "www.someplace.com,"
printing to PDF goes without a hitch, but then the link doesn't work in the PDF
file. Before making Mozilla 1.7.x my default browser I used Netscape 7.1 and did
not have this problem. Files in the form "http://www.someplace.com" ended up in
the PDF without a crash and the links were functional.

Oddly, however, if I put a space between "http://" and "www.someplace.com," I
can print to PDF without a crash, and despite the space, the link in the PDF is
functional.

On automatic rebooting after these crashes I get a message saying "The system
has recovered from a serious error" and giving me the option to report it to
Microsoft. Using this option automatically loads my browser and takes me to a
Microsoft page that says crashes of this type are usually caused by a driver.
That's not very helpful to me, because it doesn't tell me which driver is
causing the problem. It might be helpful to you, however.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Load the Composer.
2.Type in a URL in the form "http://www.someplace.com.
3.Print from Composer to PDF file using the program Win2Pdf.exe

Actual Results:  
System crashes every time, unless I remove "http://" from the URL or separate it
from the rest with a space, thus: http:// www.someplace.com.

Expected Results:  
It should have printed with no problem, just as it always did with the composer
in Netscape 7.1.

Comment 1

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

Does this also happen when you save the file and print it in Mozilla Navigator?
What about IE?

Comment 2

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

*** Bug 288805 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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