429330 - Print Selection doesn't print some rows or some pages

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 428339

(Core :: Printing: Output, defect)

Description

[Gabriele Best [:Gabri]]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9pre) Gecko/2008041606 Minefield/3.0pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9pre) Gecko/2008041606 Minefield/3.0pre

With the last approved patch on this bug https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=402264 FF3pre doesn't print blank pages anymore. 

But now it prints incomplete pages when I need to print only a selection of rows/words.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
I've attached an example file.

To see the bug open it and:
1.Select from the first row to the 80th one;
2.Click on File->Print and then select "Selection" radio button; 
3.Click on ok;
4.See that Header and Footer weren't printed, rows from 1 to 49 were printed,
rows from 50 to 80 not.
Actual Results:  
Header and Footer aren't printed, some rows or some pages aren't printed too.

Expected Results:  
Header and Footer will be printed, all the rows and all the pages will be printed.

Comment 1

[Gabriele Best [:Gabri]]

Attachment: testcase

Comment 2

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

Confirmed.
When I select everything on that page, and then do a print selection, then only one page seems to be printed out.
On branch, this works fine.

Comment 3

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

(In reply to comment #0)
> Header and Footer aren't printed

Yup, that's a known issue (it's mentioned in bug 402264 a few times) though I don't think we have a bug on it yet.

> some rows or some pages aren't printed too.

That's a dupe of bug 428339, I think.  ("Print Selection output is limited to one page in trunk")

Comment 4

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

(In reply to comment #3)
> (In reply to comment #0)
> > Header and Footer aren't printed
> 
> Yup, that's a known issue

I just filed bug 429337 for that problem.

Comment 5

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

Marking this as a dupe of 428339, as comment 0 and comment 2 both sound like they're basically describing that bug's problem. ("Print Selection output is limited to one page in trunk")

Comment 6

[Gabriele Best [:Gabri]]

I think that those bugs (428339 and 429337) should block final release of firefox 3.

Comment 7

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

(In reply to comment #6)
> I think that those bugs (428339 and 429337) should block final release of
> firefox 3.

Let's take that discussion to those individual bugs.  I'll post a follow-up on each bug.

Comment 8

[Gabriele Best [:Gabri]]

Good! I hope they'll be fixed before final release. :)

Comment 9

[Andrew Oakley]

Is bug 425094 a duplicate of this? Lots of people still reporting this problem in Firefox 3 beta 5, including me.

I can confirm this bug in Firefox 3 beta 5 in Linux Ubuntu Hardy.

Steps to reproduce:

* Highlight some text or objects on the page using the mouse
* Select File menu - Print - Options tab - click Print Selection Only tickbox
* Click Print

Expected result:

* Printer outputs highlighted selection only, with header and footer

Actual result:

* Printer outputs completely blank page. No selection, no header, no footer,
nothing on the page at all, completely blank.

Importance:

* This is vital functionality. It is unreasonable to expect users to print out
dozens of pages when all they require is one highlighted paragraph.

* Furthermore this is environmentally unfriendly, a waste of paper.

Comment 10

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

(In reply to comment #9)
> Is bug 425094 a duplicate of this? Lots of people still reporting this problem
> in Firefox 3 beta 5, including me.

I just now flagged that bug as a dupe of bug 402264, as suggested by someone there.  It's been fixed in the time since the Firefox 3b5 release -- I posted a link on that bug to where you can download a recent trunk build, if you want to confirm that it's fixed.