260069 - long document printed improperly as one page without page break

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 154892

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Mark Gordon]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040831 Firefox/0.9.1+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040831 Firefox/0.9.1+

The URL above, which should print as at least a two-page document, prints as one
page with as much as will fit on that one page.  The rest of the document
effectively falls off the bottom of the page.  It seems to be failing to
introduce a page break at the appropriate point.

Both print preview and actual hard-copy printing show the same erroneous behavior.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Visit http://www.tech9.net/rml/kernel_book/errata-1e.html
2. File -> Print Preview

Actual Results:  
The text is flowing off the bottom of the page.

Expected Results:  
Whatever doesn't fit on one page should go on the next page.

I tried editing the document to see what would make it work.  Removing the <div>
tags made the page printable (at the expense of the relevant formatting getting
ignored).

Comment 1

[zug_treno]

The .main class in ../rml.css has {position: absolute;...}, related to bug 154892?

Comment 2

[Henrik Ræder Clausen]

Attachment: Here as printed to a PDF file. One very, very long page.

This bug just bit me. I want to print this page: 
http://www.od.dk/undervisning/roma/Artikler/Peter_ravn2.htm
and get only the first page out. Printing to PDF gives me a strange PDF file
with the same problem - thus the attachment. 
Printing from Opera works fine, IE probably also.
This is from Windows XP Danish, SP2, to a HP LaserJet 6 Postscript printer.

Comment 3

[Henrik Ræder Clausen]

See this was originally filed for Linux. Applies to WinXP, too. Would be setting
'All OS', but don't have permission to do so.

Comment 4

[mjs]

Attachment: HTML file that prints as one continuous page instead of several.

Comment 5

[mjs]

Comment on attachment 174032 [details]
HTML file that prints as one continuous page instead of several.

The attached file exhibits the described behavior (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux
i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041111 Firefox/1.0)

Comment 6

[Xin Zhang]

could this be a dup of 75213?

Comment 7

[Henrik Ræder Clausen]

Yes, looks much like it. 

75213 is itself a dup of 154892, and that looks like the behaviour I'm getting. 

I notice that 'Nobody is working on it' at the moment...

Comment 8

[Xin Zhang]

Could this also be a dup of 270827?
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=270827

Comment 9

[Henrik Ræder Clausen]

Yes, I'm confident it is. Which one is the root bug for this report. Seems I
don't have the access level to set 260069 and 270827 as dupes of 154892. Someone
please do this, it'll clarify the significance of getting this fixed.

Comment 10

[Xin Zhang]

271096 could also be a dup. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=271096
192129, https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=192129
267709, https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=267709
267745, https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=267745
260024, https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=260024

Comment 11

[Henrik Ræder Clausen]

Yes and no (!). It behaves in the same manner that only one page is printed -
that's the bug behaviour. But the reporter seems to complain about something
else that also happens here - the margins are being truncated. It's the first
time I see this with Firefox, which usually behaves much better than IE in this
respect.

Comment 12

[Xin Zhang]

I think these bugs may be able to be labeled as duplicate of
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=270827, as 270827 has a "critical"
severity.

Comment 13

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 14

[Henrik Ræder Clausen]

It's a dupe of bug 154892, which has had much activity. But I don't have the
priviledges myself to resolve it. Is the reporter around to do it?

Comment 15

[Mark Gordon]

Yes, I'm still around.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 154892 ***