281722 - firefox doesn't collapse body & printed page margins

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Jack Bates [:nottheoilrig]]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux ppc; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20050207 Firefox/1.0 (Debian package 1.0+dfsg.1-5)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux ppc; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20050207 Firefox/1.0 (Debian package 1.0+dfsg.1-5)

I gave the body of this page a .5in margin, to keep the contents .5in away from
the edge of the printed page - but Firefox adds an additional .5in margin.

http://cgi.sfu.ca/~jdbates/tmp/resume/200502080/resume.xhtml

Consequently, to print correctly, I must set Firefox' margins to 0.

It would be convenient if Firefox collapsed the body & printed page margins
according to the CSS recomendation - taking their maximum, instead of their sum.

Thanks!

Jack

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. open http://cgi.sfu.ca/~jdbates/tmp/resume/200502080/resume.xhtml in Firefox
2. print, or print preview
Actual Results:  
The printed page had margins of > 1in

Expected Results:  
The printed page had margins of .5in, as specified by the CSS

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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