296170 - Printing is too large

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Sebastien Celles]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; fr; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050517 Firefox/1.0.4 (Debian package 1.0.4-2)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; fr; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050517 Firefox/1.0.4 (Debian package 1.0.4-2)

When I try to print any web page with Firefox on Debian Sarge.
It's too large.

To understand the problem
I tryed to print (with the same printer) in a PostScript file.
I open the file with gv.
I looks ok (good paper size : A4)
I click on gv print
The print is too large too

I convert mozilla.ps to mozilla.pdf (using pstopdf or ps2pdf...)
I open mozilla.pdf using xpdf
It looks good.
I print with xpdf it works.

So I think the problem is with PS file send to printer

I hope this problem will be solved before Sarge beeing Stable !

Regards

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Kenneth Herron]

Sebastien, could you test this with the new deer park alpha release
(http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/) or a recent firefox nightly release?
Firefox 1.0.x is only receiving security fixes, so this is only an issue if it
happens with a current release.

Comment 2

[Sebastien Celles]

I'm sorry because I'm using Firefox 1.0.4 but I only install software on my
Debian system when they are packaged ;-)

I don't want to break my system because I'm *working* with it (I teach Physic) !

I see that you leave my bug as unconfirmed... but I can contact a friend of I
who use Debian Sarge too and who has the same problem...

Regards

Comment 3

[Sebastien Celles]

ok I have converted the tgz to deb (using alien)
launch the installer (in fact I shouldn't make a deb... or Moz should provide deb)

The problem is know a little bit different
I using french paper (A4 21cm x 29,9 cm)

I tryed to print the page
http://www.google.fr

It's better but

try to preview

Top left : Google
Top right : http://www.google.fr
Bottom left : 1 of 1
Bottom right : date


This is much better for what is inside the page
Google logo is a the good size, good position

but

 I don't see top left : Google but oogle
 I don't see top right : http://www.google.fr but http://www.google.f
 I don't see bottom (left and right)

Page setup is
Portrait
Shrink to fit
Magin top=12.7 left=12.7 right=12.7 bottom=12.7

So the problem is now with headers and footers despite margins.


I tryed now to print in a ps file
gv mozilla.ps
I print it but... the scale is not good !
I only see Goo logo instead of the full Google logo


Sorry

Comment 4

[Rakotomandimby Mihamina]

I confirm I have the same problem. I tried to print this page:
http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/column/libpkg-guide/libpkg-guide.html but
alwasy had only the half of the width of the page (for the height too). Although
I selected shrink to fit. It was with a 1.0 Firefox. My ink cartidge is empty
for the moment I cannot try to reproduce it. I still have to wait.

Comment 5

[Fabio Frumento]

Yes i'm having the same problem too, ANY page I try to print come out very big,
print preview is working fine, one of my friend is using ubuntu linux and he
doesn't have any problem, i think it's a configuration issue of debian.

(In reply to comment #4)
> I confirm I have the same problem. I tried to print this page:
> http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/column/libpkg-guide/libpkg-guide.html but
> alwasy had only the half of the width of the page (for the height too). Although
> I selected shrink to fit. It was with a 1.0 Firefox. My ink cartidge is empty
> for the moment I cannot try to reproduce it. I still have to wait.

Comment 6

[Sebastien Celles]

I don't think so because

why a
$ lpr mozilla.ps
printing is too large
when the same print in FireFox is *nearly* good ?

Comment 7

[Dave Belfer-Shevett]

I am having the same issue, and have for the last 1-2 versions of firefox.  My
current platform is Debian Sarge with Firefox 1.0.4.  I print via CUPS to either
an HP printer or a laser printer out on the net.  I don't have pstopdf here, so
I can't test that part, but I'm guessing there's an issue in the finalized
postscript output that's messing up scaling.

To confirm I went to 'http://www.google.com/' and simply hit 'print'.  The
resulting page was poster-scaled, with only 'Go' and part of the next 'o'
visible at the edge.  It was a full sheet of paper, just scaled up amazingly.

I print to both these printers from a2ps, gimp, Evolution, and OpenOffice on a
regular basis.  Firefox is the only application having a problem.

Comment 8

[Dave Belfer-Shevett]

To double-check this, I downloaded the deerpark-alpha-2 nightly build today
(August 2nd) and this behaviour did NOT happen in the new build.  I ran with a
clean profile, printed several pages, they all scaled properly.

So this looks like it'll be fixed in the 1.5 release.  

Comment 9

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

Dave, can you or Sebastien, can you confirm that this bug is indeed fixed in Firefox 2.0.0.3 or later?

Comment 10

[Sebastien Celles]

I'm sorry I can't confirm it because I'm running Mac OS X on a MacBook Intel now
(I still have Ubuntu but not here)

Comment 11

[shayde]

I've tested this under 2.0.0.3 on Feisty Fawn, and it's now sizing correctly (Yay!).  I don't know when the actual fix happened, but somewhere it did.

Comment 12

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

Great! Thanks for reporting back. Closing this bug as WORKSFORME.

Sebastian, if you see this bug again, please file a new bug with details. Thanks.