324001 - Print Preview of PDF shows blank page

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect)

Description

[Phil Endecott]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5

I visit a PDF URL.  It is displayed using the Acrobat plugin inside a Firefox window.

Choosing "File->Print" from the menus starts what I presume to be an Acrobat print dialog.

On the other hand, "File->Print Preview" starts the regular Firefox print preview window, which doesn't know what to do with a PDF document and shows a page that is blank apart from its headers and footers.

Ideally the user would be able to print-preview PDF URLs.  If this is not possible, the menu entry should be removed or greyed-out.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Visit a PDF URL (e.g. http://www.copyright.gov/legislation/dmca.pdf).
2. Select "File -> Print Preview" from the menus.

Actual Results:  
A page is displayed that is blank apart from its headers


Expected Results:  
The PDF file, as it would be printed, should be displayed.
Or it the menu item should not be selectable.

Comment 1

[Nickolay_Ponomarev]

dupe of bug 248936 / bug 134002?

Comment 2

[Phil Endecott]

Yes, I think bug 134002 covers this.  Marking as a dupe.  Will post a followup comment there.


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 134002 ***

Comment 4

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

Reopening this bug, see bug 134002, comment 25:
"
(In reply to comment #24)
> See my comment #17; in the case of PDF (and presumably other formats) printing
> is handled by the plugin itself (and works), but preview isn't.  So for
> full-page plugins I feel that print preview should be disabled in the UI.

Full-page plugins are a completely different codepath; please file another bug.
"

Comment 5

[Benjamin Smedberg]

I'm going to WONTFIX this in favor of bug 838763.