272080 - font size used for preview/printing does NOT match display

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Printing: Output, defect)

Description

[Jim Scott]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20021120 Netscape/7.01
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20021120 Netscape/7.01

Surprized that this gecko engine error still exists. It is in later Netscape
products, the Mozilla products, and I see it is in FireFox as well. The
preview/print engine is just plain incapable of properly handling the font size.
Please refer to the specified URL for a rather obvious example. Fire this puppy
up in [ugh!] IE6 or NS4 and compare the preview/print results with Netscape 7.00
or Mozilla (whatever version I installed on the system upstairs last year) or
FireFox 1.0 (installed upstairs yesterday)*. IE6 / NS4 preview/print the page
properly with sentences and last line of page exactly as they appear on the
displayed page. The others ... well ... the text is slightly larger so the ends
of sentences change (as text is "bumped" to the next line) and the bottom line
(which should appear as a nice little line of size 1 text) is now forced to
occupy two lines and is ugly indeed. All browsers are set to display text at
actual size (not shrunken or expanded or whatever). The effect is the same on
all systems here (three different Dell families, three different MS OS's, six
different printers). I guess that is why I am so amazed that this is still
around! Oh well. I will continue to preview my work in NS4 and IE5 / IE6 until
y'all can work this out. cheers.

*the upstairs system is my web page development system ... it is completely
isolated from the Internet (no connections = no bugs, eh!)



Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. load the specified URL
2. select Preview Page, or
3. print the page

Actual Results:  
please see notes above

Expected Results:  
please see notes above

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Testcase worksforme in a current Linux build, if I disable the minimal font size
preference I usually have set....

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This is an automated message, with ID "auto-resolve01".

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Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
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Comment 4

[Jim Scott]

Attachment: screen print of subject site as displayed by NS701

Comment 5

[Jim Scott]

Attachment: screen print of subject site as print previewed by NS701

Comment 6

[Jim Scott]

Attachment: actual print of web page to PDF file (Win2PDF) by NS701

Comment 7

[Jim Scott]

Attachment: screen print of subject site as displayed by IE60

Comment 8

[Jim Scott]

Attachment: screen print of subject site as print previewed by IE60

Comment 9

[Jim Scott]

Attachment: actual print of web page to PDF file (Win2PDF) by IE60

Comment 10

[Jim Scott]

Check the paragraph text arrangement (ie, "Here you will find ... any way we
can.") IE 60 seems to keep the font pretty uniform; ie, content of each line
uniform from display through preview and into print stays the same. However, in
NS701, the preview function does something with the font size or kerning or
spacing or whatever and the text arrangement changes (ie, some words end up on
different lines). Displayed or printed pages seem to be true to the actual file.
That is pretty much it in a nutshell. I don't have a lot of time for
troubleshooting or program loading/unloading/reloading/etc. so I just throw this
out for folks that do. This was all done tonight on my surfing system: Dell
2300, 756MB RAM, XP SP1 Home, NS701 primary browser, IE60 backup browser. On my
web development system (which is intentionally kept off-line and does not have
an Internet connection), Firefox, and Mozilla seem to have the same problem. NS
408 and IE5 do not have the problem. I guess that is why I assume this is a
gecko engine problem. I could be wrong ... and would appreciate knowing the
exact problem is anyone happens upon it. regards,

Comment 11

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Frist, no printing fixes will be forthcoming for NS or any of the "older" releases of FF or mozilla. Print fixes are mostly coming out only on the newest versions currently in development.

http://www.cnywesleyan.com 

WFM, EPSON CX5400 printer, Trunk builds of FF and SM which use the newer Gecko and also have printing fixes. Even FF 1.0.4 prints fine. Therefore closing WFM.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20050917 SeaMonkey/1.1a

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

If you can reproduce with *trunk* build as mentioned in comment 2 then please reopen the bug with new information, and for specificity, always include the build string of items you cite are or are not working - just saying "firefox" is not enough information for a good bug report.