315390 - SVG printing preview differs from output

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: SVG, defect)

Description

[Andrea Lombardoni]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051025 Firefox/1.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051025 Firefox/1.5

When printing the attached page, that contains an SVG element, the print output (postscript to file) differs heavily from the print preview (and the print preview matches the on-screen representation).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. load the included file
2. print preview
3. print to .ps
4. compare print preview with .ps output

Actual Results:  
the generates postscript output does not match the print preview

Expected Results:  
the generated postscript output should match the print preview

Comment 1

[Andrea Lombardoni]

Attachment: The file that generates the wrong print output - can be opened directly on firefox

Comment 2

[Andrea Lombardoni]

Attachment: A simpler test-case

This is a much simpler test case. It shows that the problem is only in the background, which is shown white in the print preview, but in the printed version it is black.

Comment 3

[Andrea Lombardoni]

Attachment: A test case with a work-around

This file contains a workaround.
It simply adds a white rectangle, covering the whole SVG area, as the first child of the svg element.

This makes the print preview and printed version match.

It seems the problem is only in the background color, which for the print preview is white, while for the print is black.

Comment 4

[Andrea Lombardoni]

This problem is present under Linux also in Firefox 1.5 RC3.

It does not appear under Firefox 1.5 RC3 win32 build (using a PDF printer driver, PDFCreator).

Comment 5

[Albert Weichselbraun]

i can reproducte this bug with "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5" (cups 1.1.23).
-> if svg-graphics with a size smaller than the paper size are printed, the
   background gets printed in black.

Comment 6

[Victor Engmark]

Confirmed on FF 1.5.0.1 (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1)

Test case coming up.

Comment 7

[Victor Engmark]

Attachment: XHTML with inline SVG

Only a few elements are printed wrongly. These are the ones I believe to be the wrong ones: #outer-border1, all "text" elements, and #psb-ring.

For #psb-ring, the only difference between it and the other rings is the center. Nothing except the color seems to distinguish #outer-border1 from the other rectangles.

Comment 8

[zug_treno]

*** Bug 332573 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9

[Daniel Vanesse]

- workaround attached to comment #3 only works if no "viewBox" is set

- SVG 1.1 specification says that the SVG canvas background is initilaaly set to TRANSPARENT BLACK ( see attribute "enable-background" for more details ). 

That make me think that the tranparency is not properly managed when PRINTING the canvas background image.

Comment 10

[Vincent H.]

This bug always appears in firefox 2.0

Comment 11

[Leonardo Morelli]

I get this in "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070725 Firefox/2.0.0.6", printing directly to printer as well.

Comment 12

[jonathan chetwynd]

is this fixed in the latest nightlies?

Comment 13

[Robert Longson [:longsonr]]

I'm completely confused about what this bug actually is since each commenter seems to be reporting different issues. I'd suggest closing it as INVALID and let everybody raise new bugs if there are still trunk issue with printing.

Comment 14

[Robert Longson [:longsonr]]

Printing was redone as vectors for Firefox 3. Feel free to reopen this if you are still having issues with Firefox 3.6.x or preferably Firefox 4 beta. The example files print preview as expected for me.