419844 - Page tail truncates on print preview and print

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Core :: Printing: Output, defect)

Description

[Patyi]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9b3) Gecko/2008020514 Firefox/3.0b3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9b3) Gecko/2008020514 Firefox/3.0b3

If you try to print an article from msdn (ex: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa192876(office.11,printer).aspx) it's bottom lines truncates in the print preview (and of course in the printout).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa192876(office.11,printer).aspx
2. Choose File\Print preview
3. Page size: A4, orientation: Portrait, view: Shrink to Fit

Actual Results:  
In the print preview window the lines below the text "API Components" are truncated in A4 Portrait, Shrink to Fit view (even more lines disappeared if orientation is Landscape).

Expected Results:  
The preview should shrink even more or flow to the next page.

Firefox sadly never printed out MSDN articles (among other pages) well. I hope in FF3 it will be fixed.

Comment 2

[Jim Scott]

This has apparently been fixed as of 3.5.9. I just printed the referenced document properly in A4 (after which print preview used A4 size to properly calculate the preview). Then I switched back to Letter and it printed properly as well (after which print preview used Letter to properly calculate the preview).

Yes, you have to print at least one document in the desired paper size IF the current default printer paper size is not the size you want to print on. That is a well-known problem with Firefox but curiously it is NOT a bug. The whole story can be found at Bug 428539 where the solution is currently being discussed.

All that said, I think we can close this bug if Patyi concurs.

Comment 3

[Patyi]

Works perfectly.