285304 - Print preview forces all calendar frames to be printed individually

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: Toolbars and Customization, defect)

Description

[Jim Wilson]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050225 Firefox/1.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050225 Firefox/1.0.1

When I print preview the Groupwise WebAccess calendar in IE, the toolbar
displays an option to print "as laid out on screen" (in 1 page). Firefox does
not give that option, but gives two others: ("shrink to fit" and
portrait/landscape). The result is that Firefox prints out all calendar frames
individually, so it takes 4-5 pages to print a 1-page calendar. Not so good.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Since Firefox doesn't give an option to print "as laid out on screen" (1 page)
2.each frame is printed separately
3.

Actual Results:  
Each frame of the calendar (toolbars, buttons, etc.) prints separately, so the
calendar is printed as several pages instead of as one page

Expected Results:  
The calendar should print as one page. I think the intention of Firefox was to
have the "shrink to fit" command form the calendar to one page and print one
page but, using Groupwise Web Access, the calendar extends to 2 pages and prints
as multiple pages. It should perform as IE does using its print "as laid out on
screen" option

Comment 1

[Maggy]

I've reported this same bug years ago. There are several identical bug reports (search print AND frames). I use Windows XP SP2. When I preview a page that contains frames, it looks good on screen. When I click Print button on top of preview window, the print frames part of the dialog is greyed out.
When I close the preview and select Print from the menu, I do get the print frames dialog but it defaults to each frame on a seperate page.
The major problem is that in general pages with frames do not have a warning notice THIS PAGE CONTAINS FRAMES!
I print web pages less than once a week, less than once in two months I accidentally start printing a page with frames without setting the correct option in in the print frames dialog. This most likely happens on a web form that has a scroll down list for Country, with each country in a frame. My printer can spit out about 50 pages, each with a single country name printed on it before I'm able to flush the print job.
IMHO any half decent programmer should be able to fix this in less than an hour.
So I really do not understand why this bug is still "unconfirmed" just like all the duplicate reports and why this bug is still alive and kicking in every new version of Firefox.
A nice testcase:
go to http://www.boekwinkeltjes.nl/
click the middle menu item Rollende Deelnemers
click any of the bookshops that scroll by
print the next page with the default settings
preferrably use a fast laserprinter with a huge paper stock installed
try to end the print job before printing 50 almost white pages
If you succeed, I buy you a drink
If you remove this bug, I buy you a meal

Comment 2

[Steve England [:stevee]]

Reporter, do you still see this problem with the latest Firefox 2? If not, can you please close this bug as WORKSFORME. Thanks!

Comment 3

[u279076]

Due to lack of reporter feedback and the inability to reproduce this bug, it is being resolved as INCOMPLETE.  Reporter, feel free to reopen this bug if you still are experiencing this issue and wish to provide us with more information so that we can help.