421910 - Layout is broken when printing to PDF

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Core :: Printing: Output, defect)

Description

[mannheim89]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9b5pre) Gecko/2008030814 Firefox/3.0b5pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9b5pre) Gecko/2008030814 Firefox/3.0b5pre

When printing some pages to a PDF, the layout is completely muddled: in the printed output, text may overlap. (The print preview is fine, and so is the postscript file if printed to .ps.)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to the front page of news.bbc.co.uk.
2. Do Ctrl-P for print, select "Print to File" and choose PDF format.
3. Open the PDF file in any viewer.
Actual Results:  
The text and images overlap a lot, everything looks broken.

Expected Results:  
I expect the pdf to look like the ps output. 

The generated pdf file is also very large. Correct PDF output can be obtained by either (1) selecting "Print to File" --> "Postscript" and then converting to pdf; or setting up a PDF printer with cups-pdf and printing to that.

I have build this Firefox 3.0b5pre on my own machine with --enable-system-cairo; I don't know if that is a factor.

Comment 1

[mannheim89]

Attachment: Screenshot showing the problem

The PDF file exhibiting the problem is rather large (unexpectedly so --nearly 2M); so I am attaching a smaller png screenshot of what the displayed PDF file looks like on my screen. Either evince or acroread produce similar results here.

Comment 2

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

do you see this issue still with version 3.6 or 4.0 beta?

Comment 3

[Stephanie Daugherty [:sdaugherty]]

No response to needed information. -> incomplete report