294165 - print transparent gif background failed

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 141656

(Core :: Printing: Output, defect)

Description

[Tomasz Helenowski]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050319
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050319

The gif with a transparent background renders properly in browser.

This fails when printed on a printer in Win XP using a Xerox Phaser. The
background of the gif is solid and covers the general background of the web page.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. open page
2.print page with background
3.

Actual Results:  
page prints with the gif background not being tranparent as in the browser
rendering. (white rectange around graphic image rather than page background)

Expected Results:  
printed image with transparent background to show page background behind it.

Comment 1

[Hermann Schwab]

Is Print Preview also showing the problem?

Comment 2

[Tomasz Helenowski]

Print preview looks fine, just the hard copy has the error.

Comment 3

[Justin Wood (:Callek)]

Reporter, would you please create a minimized testcase of this bug, as in just a
(smaller) gif if you can, and attach both the gif[s] and the testcase in the bug
for "us" to try, [me personally being a college student; I value my ink]

Comment 4

[Tomasz Helenowski]

(In reply to comment #3)
> Reporter, would you please create a minimized testcase of this bug, as in just a
> (smaller) gif if you can, and attach both the gif[s] and the testcase in the bug
> for "us" to try, [me personally being a college student; I value my ink]

can I email to you directly? I'll create a web page with small graphic. It would
still print out a whole page of the background and probably not wave ink.

If you like, I can snail mail a printout of screen capture of the page as well
as the actual printout. This may be the best. Please let me know.

Thanks (my direct email is [e-mail])

Comment 5

[Tomasz Helenowski]

see http://www.tkh.com/test.html

If you are printing on an ink jet, you can save ink by stopping the printout
after the first inch or so of the page is printed.

I do not know of a way to save ink on a laser, since it prints the whole page at
once.

Comment 6

[Justin Wood (:Callek)]

Confirming based on linked testcase.

Comment 7

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Note that print to file will never use any ink (and if used with an Apple
LaserWriter or similar PostScript printer will produce a file viewable in any
PostScript viewer).

Comment 8

[Tomasz Helenowski]

Tried this, you are right. Shows the bug without using ink.

Comment 9

[Justin Wood (:Callek)]

Attachment: image1 for coming testcase

Comment 10

[Justin Wood (:Callek)]

Attachment: image2

Comment 11

[Justin Wood (:Callek)]

Attachment: testcase

This is no different than the url posted above, just a permanent attachment.

Comment 12

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 141656 ***