331426 - Constant-widths font not printed as constant width (on paper), and also a DL rendering problem.

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Lloyd ALLISON]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050925 Firefox/1.0.4 (Debian package 1.0.4-2sarge5)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050925 Firefox/1.0.4 (Debian package 1.0.4-2sarge5)

1: constant-width fonts, in PRE TT and CODE tags,
are rendered correctly on the screen but, for PRE and TT,
are printed as proportional-width fonts on paper --
thus destroying "ascii-art" layout. However, CODE text does
print as constant-width!  See
http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~lloyd/test.html

--

2: DL DT DD tag layout is not rendered correctly if the
font size is changed from the default -- same URL gives an example
http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~lloyd/test.html

--

I would not be surprised if the first problem was something
to do with the environment, rather than firefox as such,
but I do not know that and I cannot think what on earth it would be.
Neither problem occurs with Mozilla 4.79 on Solaris.


-Lloyd

Reproducible: Always

Actual Results:  
1: Any PRE ... /PRE text that needs constant width font; click on 'print'.

2: Rather than
  DT
      DD
  DT
      DD
say, a DL DT DD set is rendered as
  DT  DD
  DT  DD
when the font size is changed from the default.


Expected Results:  
1: Constant-width text rendered on the screen,
proportional-width font printed.

Comment 1

[siimo]

don't have a printer handy here but have you tried this with latest release 1.5.0.1 ? 

Comment 2

[Philip Withnall (unavailable)]

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060324 Firefox/1.6a1 - Build ID: 0000000000
Works fine for me. Can you please try to reproduce this with the latest version of Firefox?

Comment 3

[Steve England [:stevee]]

Reporter, do you still see this problem with the latest Firefox 2? If not, can you please close this bug as WORKSFORME. Thanks!

Comment 4

[[:Aleksej]]

On Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9a6pre) Gecko/20070623 Minefield/3.0a6pre here, it doesn't even display correctly, because of bug 379886.
WFM with Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.5pre) Gecko/20070623 BonEcho/2.0.0.5pre

In case this bug can be reproduced on trunk, it should depend on bug 379886.

Comment 5

[[:Aleksej]]

(In reply to comment #4)
PS: I used Print Preview to check.

Comment 6

[Kevin Brosnan]

On a Windows trunk build the testcase looks fine. I'll try and check the Linux trunk soon.

Comment 7

[Kevin Brosnan]

Looks fine in Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9b3pre) Gecko/2007121204 Minefield/3.0b3pre

Resolving works for me based on comments

Comment 8

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

WFM, 20081230 Minefield/3.2a1pre on Linux.

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