287946 - Pages with frames are not printed correctly

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Core :: Printing: Output, defect)

Description

[Crispin Flowerday (not receiving bug mail)]

Originally raised as http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=170914

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You want to print a HTML-page which is divided into several columns - e.g. like
http://www.spiegel.de/
Let's consider the HTML-page needs several pages of A4/US-Letter to be printed.
If the columns contain a different amount of content, the latter pages (should)
contain empty columns/an empty column.

But in this case the latter pages are treated as if they would contain less
columns: The space for the empty columns is not kept free.
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I'll attach the result of the galeon users print of this page, I have
successfully reproduced his behaviour using this site with mozilla 1.7.6

Comment 1

[Crispin Flowerday (not receiving bug mail)]

Ok, I can't attach the reporters ps file, but you can get it from
http://schubbe.org/galeon-print/1.ps.gz.

The reporter says the following about the print:

Concerning the columns only the 1. + the 3. page seem to be correct.
The 2. page lacks content in the 2. column.
The 4. + the 5. page lack (empty) space for the 1. column; the remaining
columns appear too much left.

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 3

[Crispin Flowerday (not receiving bug mail)]

This still happens, printing http://www.spiegel.de/ results in the last page
being shifted left by the width of the left column.

Comment 4

[Tony Mechelynck [:tonymec]]

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9pre) Gecko/2008060701 SeaMonkey/2.0a1pre

That Spiegel page is printed "strangely" here too, I suspect the use of frames is responsible:
Page 1 is only the top banner.
Page 2 is one printer page's worth of the web page: top part of the left column and the equivalent depth of the left half of the right sidebar.
Pages 3 to 8 are the 2nd and following page-depths of the sidebar, shifted to the left.
Page 9 is only the footer.
The rest of the left column and the right half of the first page-depth of the sidebar are not printed.

Comment 5

[Tony Mechelynck [:tonymec]]

P.S. My paper size is A4.

Comment 6

[Axel Maier]

This problem still exists in Firefox 3.5.1.

It seems that every frame of the http://www.spiegel.de/ webpage is printed on a new paper. Currently, this webpage will be printed on 6 DIN A4 papers.