295946 - When printing selection, justified text is covered with black blocks

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Printing: Output, defect)

Description

[Christophe Jacquet]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050523 Firefox/1.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050523 Firefox/1.0+

When printing the selected text on a page, text with CSS property "text-align:
justify" is covered with black blocks.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. open a page, and select some text having the CSS property "text-align: justify"
2. select File > Print, and check "Print Range: Selection"


Actual Results:  
The text that has the CSS property "text-align: justify" is covered with black
rectangles.

Expected Results:  
There should not be any black rectangle.

The problem arises regardless of the selected printer, when printing to a file
as well as an actual printer, and whatever the value of
"font.Freetype2.printing" is.

Comment 1

[Christophe Jacquet]

Attachment: Testcase for the problem.

A very simple HTML file with a p element whose CSS property "text-align" is set
to "justify". It is covered with a black rectangle when printing selection.

Comment 2

[Christophe Jacquet]

Attachment: Postscript file obtained when printing a selection covering all of the proposed testcase.

Comment 3

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

related to bug 183688 ?

Comment 4

[Charles Evans]

Not sure if this is related, but FFOX 1.02 on WinXPsp1 printing PCL to HPLJ1200
often prints the highlight so text is black on dark gray background -
nearly unreadable. 
It does this with print-background both on and off. Test url:
http://www.namesys.com/v4/v4.html
Should this be a new bug?

Comment 5

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 6

[Christophe Jacquet]

The bug still arises with Firefox 1.4.1 (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; fr;
rv:1.8b5) Gecko/20051003 Firefox/1.4.1), as shown in the Postscript file
attached on 2005-05-30.

Comment 7

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

Christophe, do you still see this bug using a recent trunk nightly?

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/

Comment 8

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

Closing this bug as WORKSFORME. This works for me using a recent trunk nightly on Ubuntu 6.10.