413786 - Lots of text, links, missing from printed page, printing is useless

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 413024

(Core :: Printing: Output, defect)

Description

[Nelson Bolyard (seldom reads bugmail)]

Gecko/2008010203  on WinXP Home SP2

Go to http://www.walgreens.com/default.jsp and print the page.
The page looks good in print preview, but on the printed page,
lots of text is missing.  It's mostly the text of links  
(the contents of anchor tags) that is missing, but some heading
text is missing too.  One frequently sees a line that should
appear beneath the text of a link.  The text is gone, but the line
in present.

Of course, when printed from IE, all the text is present.

So much text is missing that the page is not usable for business 
purposes.  A printout of an order placed with a merchant is likely
to be missing vital information, such as order numbers.  
A list of medicines ordered on Walgreens is likely to be missing the
names of all the medicines and the doctors.  
A list of items purchased at FTD.com is likely to be missing many 
items.
Buying tickets at home through Fandango is pretty risky if you can't
print them out.  

It's a real shame to have to use IE for all real business transactions
for which a printed record may be needed.

reproducible: 100% on trunk

Comment 1

[Nelson Bolyard (seldom reads bugmail)]

Attachment: scan of page printed by IE (256 color scan)

Here is a scan of the page as printed by IE, for reference comparison to 
the page printed by gecko

Comment 2

[Nelson Bolyard (seldom reads bugmail)]

Attachment: Scan of same page printed by Gecko, with missing text highlighted

Here's the same page, printed by gecko trunk on the same printer.
Notice all the missing text areas.

Comment 3

[Marcia Knous [:marcia]]

Nelson: Using Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9b3pre) Gecko/2008012404 Minefield/3.0b3pre I was able to successfully print the walgreen's page with all the links. Do you get the same result with today's build?

Comment 5

[Nelson Bolyard (seldom reads bugmail)]

This bug is not a duplicate of bug 413024. 
The test case cited in this bug includes text that does not print that is:
a) an unvisited link, or 
b) not a link at all.

Marcia, this bug may be Windows only.  

Comment 6

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

(In reply to comment #5)
> This bug is not a duplicate of bug 413024. 
> The test case cited in this bug includes text that does not print that is:
> a) an unvisited link, or 
> b) not a link at all.

I think it is a duplicate of bug 413024 after all -- the third comment on that bug points out that *colored text* is what's broken, not visited links. (and that comment indicates that the posted patch addresses this problem)  (The bug's title should probably be changed to reflect this.)

AFAICT, all the missing text from your scans is colored text, so I think it's the same issue.  (but feel free to un-dupe if I'm missing something)