290269 - "Print Address Book..." output not in alphabetical order

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 118900

(Thunderbird :: Address Book, defect)

Description

[Sebastian]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2

PROBLEM
1/ "Print Address Book..." selected, and document is printed, perhaps 2/3rds of
the outputed document is in alphabetical order (using "Name" to aphabetize) and
the remaining are out of order. 

2/ Interesting to note: the remaining names, towards the end of the outputted
document document, are Addresses I have most recently added to my Address book.

3/ Also in the printed document: special characters, such as curly brackets {}
and bullets ••• are not alphabetized as they appear in Address book (i.e. they
are organized so curly brackets and bullets show up BEFORE the letter "A"; this
is not the case in the printed doc).

RECOMMENDATIONS:
Formatting the printed Address book document

Why make changes? In my case, I print out all my contact info and stick it in my
day timer. The doc that is printed 16 pages. Now I copy paste that info into
MSWord,  do a bit of jigging, and get it down to 8 pages (running 1 column). If
I could figure out how to make it run 2 columns, I could get it down to 4 pages.
That's a 400% savings on paper. Now here's my suggestions how to improve this
printed doc:

1/ Remove "Card" in front of the Name of the Addressee.

2/ Increase the font size of the Name by 1 point larger than the rest of the info. 

3/ Remove 50% of the white space. Perhaps remove the line breaks, separate the
indivdual contacts by 1 blank space (what ever is more space saving)

4/ Perhaps reduce the font size by 1 or 2 points. Depending on legibility, hey.

5/ condense the info to run in 2 columns.

6/ Perhaps remove the repeating header/footer "Address Book" and the time/date
stamp, and just have it as a bolded title on the first page.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1."Print Address Book..."
2.View printed doc
3.See that the printed page is coming out wonky

Actual Results:  
Printed the document that was not entirely in alphabetical order

Expected Results:  
Should print doc that is in alphabetical order

You guys rock! Keep up the outstanding work!


Peace,
S

Comment 1

[zug_treno]

Related to bug 136254?

Comment 2

[costsubs]

Likewise

Choosing "View/Show Name As/Last, First" redisplays address book in ascending 
order of Last Names.  When printing the address book, would like to print in 
this order also, not in the unsorted output currently printed.

Comment 3

[Orest Lewinter]

The Print Preview of the Address Book shows my huge list of addresses way out 
of alphabetical order.  I formatted it to print out last name first.  All the 
individual address entries are formatted the same way (not with a comma) 
under "display."  Because my Address Book is so large, this is a major problem 
for me.  Please let me know when you plan to have this problem fixed.  I can't 
print out until you do.

Thanks,
Orest Lewinter
518-489-0654

Comment 4

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

duping to bug 118900, as done in bug 286359

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 118900 ***