429934 - Print selection prints a blank page

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 430150

(Core :: Printing: Output, defect)

Description

[asdfgh19808]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9b5) Gecko/2008032620 Firefox/3.0b5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9b5) Gecko/2008032620 Firefox/3.0b5

When trying to use print selection, a blank page is printed out instead of the selected text.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Select some text
2. Open print dialog box
3. Choose "Selection" as the print range
4. Print
Actual Results:  
A blank page is printed out.

Expected Results:  
The text that was selected should have been printed out.

Print selection on the same pages works normally in Firefox 2.0.0.*

Comment 1

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

Do you have a specific URL that you're trying to print? This could be a duplicate of bug 428975 or bug 428109 (or perhaps bug 429312 if it isn't Linux-only).

Comment 2

[asdfgh19808]

It works for any URL or file, including local text files.

Additionally, I found that the "print preview" function built into the printer driver (Canon IP8500) reports that it will be printing a blank page.

I don't believe it is a dupe of bug 428109, as even a text file with no DIV's refuses to print a selection.

Comment 3

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

asdfgh:  Can you try this on the latest nightly build?  I'm guessing this was a dupe of bug 402264, which has been since fixed.

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/

Please test using this uber-simple testcase (as well as your own testcases): attachment 314434 [details]

Comment 4

[asdfgh19808]

Using the nightly build fixes some problems, but not all.

Selecting and printing the text from attachment 314432 [details] works fine, as do local text files. Beyond that, results are mixed.

Most pages not print, but cut off the top of what should be printed. For example, in the FactCheck article below when I select everything from the start of the "Summary" heading to just above Analysis, it cuts off "Summary" and prints the rest.

http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/misleading_pennsylvania_voters.html

When I try to print out a selection of this bug report page, however, it still print a blank sheet.

Comment 5

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

(In reply to comment #4)
> in the FactCheck article below when I select everything from the start
> of the "Summary" heading to just above Analysis, it cuts off "Summary" and
> prints the rest.
> 
> http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/misleading_pennsylvania_voters.html

I don't see anything cut off, but the content does look like it may be shifted up into the margin area.  This sounds like bug 428417.

> When I try to print out a selection of this bug report page, however, it still
> print a blank sheet.

I can confirm that I get blank pages from print-selection when I highlight these bits on this bug:
 - the first line of Comment 0.
 - The "Blocks:" line
 - The "Assigned to:" line
 - The bold "Attachments" header

However, I do get output (sometimes shifted upwards into the header) when I select these things:
 - The "Status" line
 - The "Reported by" line
 - The bug's title

These blank pages may be related to bug 428975, or it may be a separate bug -- I'll investigate and see.

Comment 6

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

(In reply to comment #5)
> These blank pages may be related to bug 428975, or it may be a separate bug --
> I'll investigate and see.

I'm pretty sure all the blank pages and content-shifted-upwards described in comment 4 and comment 5 are due to bug 430150, which I've just filed with some minimized testcases.

Comment 7

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

The fix for Bug 430150 (dupe of this bug) just landed, so this bug should now be fixed.

Comment 8

[Marcia Knous [:marcia]]

https://litmus.mozilla.org/show_test.cgi?id=5277 was added to Litmus to cover this.