273515 - Text color in printed selection is taken from image border above text

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core Graveyard :: Printing: Xprint, defect)

Description

[Peter Weilbacher]

If I select the text in the above URL from the title of the page down to "at a
later date." (including the whole description of the image) and print it to file
using one of the Xprint queues, the text color of the selected text below the
image takes the color of the border of the image. That means the text is blue
when the image link was not visited and dark lilac when I had looked at the
linked image. This happens with all the APOD pages from their archive, but only
when printing selected text not when printing everything. Printing to the normal
queue PostScript/default does not show this problem.

I will shortly attach the resulting PS file.

I don't know if this is caused by the Xprint support code in Mozilla or Xprint
itself, so I report this bug here.

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8a6) Gecko/20041129
Xprint Release 8

Comment 1

[Peter Weilbacher]

Argh, I cannot attach such large files. The resulting gzipped PS file can now be
found at <http://weilbacher.org/temp/APOD_print.ps.gz>.

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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

This bug has had no comments for a long time. Statistically, we have found that
bug reports that have not been confirmed by a second user after three months are
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Comment 3

[Peter Weilbacher]

Well, that nobody confirmed this is probably just because nobody is interested
in working on Mozilla printing problems (just my impression).

I cannot install Xprint any more, it is not activated by default, either, and I
do not see this problem in the normal printing mode, I just resolve this WFM.