301711 - print layout is completely broken for tables

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 294991

(Core :: Printing: Output, defect)

Description

[Martin Jespersen]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.9) Gecko/20050711 Firefox/1.0.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.9) Gecko/20050711 Firefox/1.0.5

When printing a page that is valid xhtml1.0 with a valid css stylesheet, which
renders perfectly in the browser, it goews horribly wrong.
paddings and margins are not being rendered as they should, text gets jumbled on
top of otehr text etc.
bottom line: printing is useless in firefox unless the webpage has a completely
flat layout without tables.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
check the webpage i specified
Actual Results:  
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Expected Results:  
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Comment 1

[zug_treno]

Related to Core bug 238415 or Core bug 109970?

Comment 2

[Julian D. A. Wiseman]

Tables using <TD ROWSPAN=...> are particularly mangled when printed, with the
second line of some such cells being forced onto a new page, even if there are
several rows of cells to the right on the same page. In particular,
http://www.jdawiseman.com/papers/games/bugzilla-20050906.html prints terribly
(please, the 1NT convention on this page is not yet complete: don't use it, a
more recent version is at
http://www.jdawiseman.com/papers/games/1nt-transfers.html thought that might not
be complete). 

Comment 3

[Julian D. A. Wiseman]

Also see bug 301378: 1.5RC3 still doesn't print tables well. 

Comment 4

[Boris 'pi' Piwinger]

There are many similar bug reports and in fact the bug is as old as I can think about it. Essentially, some table data is lost when printing. Duping this to a confirmed bug which is rather general. If you are sure that it is different, please undo.

pi