267571 - Prints certain web page improperly by splitting it into 3 pages and has missing right side of printed page.

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Core :: Printing: Output, defect)

Description

[Paul Boylan]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910

The web page listed is a one page aviation weather report and displays properly
on screen but when printed it is split into 3 pages with about 1/4" to 3/8" of
the right side of each page missing.  The first page is about 95% comple from
top to bottom with the 2nd page having one line of print and the 3rd line has
the last line of print.  This occurs in Mozilla, Firefox and Camino.  It prints
correctly in Internet Explorer with the exception of some font substitution
problems.  The web site is a Windows based site.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Select print from the tools menu
2.Select print from the print window
3.Check printed result

Actual Results:  
See details above.

Expected Results:  
See deails above

None

Comment 1

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

I *cannot* reproduce the "3 page" issue with 2004103108 (v0.8+), so that must
have been fixed on the trunk in the meantime.  I get one complete page followed
by the last line of the document on the second page, as expected (though still
cut off on the right).

However, Camino seems to be ignoring the "Shrink to fit page width" setting in
its print dialogue "pane," perhaps because the page specifies a set width for
the table or because Camino seems to insist on 1" margins (my printer's
default/minimum margins are 0.17"), or a combination thereof?  This particular
interaction is causing the missing right edge.

Note also that when I set scaling in Page Setup to 80%, the page still breaks at
the same place (the last line of the document is on a second page), even though
there's plenty of room on the first page!  Very bizarre printing code :-)  (See
following attachment.)

Comment 2

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

Attachment: PDF generated with 80% scale in Page Setup

Here is a PDF of the page generated with scaling in Page Setup set to 80%  Note
the page breaks oddly when not necessary...and at the very same point it broke
at 100%

This may be a separate bug from the "ignoring shrink to page width"/"cut off
right edge" issue, but I don't know enough to tell.

Comment 3

[Mike Pinkerton (not reading bugmail)]

if it occurs in mozilla, it ain't a camino bug.

Comment 4

[Paul Boylan]

(In reply to comment #3)
> if it occurs in mozilla, it ain't a camino bug.

Since Camino, Mozilla, and Firefox are all Mozilla products and they all print that web 
page exactly the same and Internet Explorer, Omniweb, and Safari don't have that 
printing problem, I assumed that it was an issue will all the Mozilla browsers.  

Does that seem reasonable?

Comment 5

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Testcase needed

Comment 6

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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