505010 - Title Used to Create PDF File Name When Printing Truncated to Less Than 30 Characters

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 531606

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

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User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.1) Gecko/20090715 Firefox/3.5.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.1) Gecko/20090715 Firefox/3.5.1

1) I print numerous articles from various web sites (NYT, WSJ, etc.) to PDF using the Bullzip PDF printer (this is not a Bullzip problem) every day.
2) The page Title is used to create the file name, which is good.
3) The page Title for many articles is 60-80 characters.
4) However, Firefox truncates the file name to < 30 characters.
5) Firefox should use the entire page Title to create the file name.
6) This works properly in FF 2.2 but does not work in FF 3.0 or later.




Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install Bullzip PDF printer (free from http://www.bullzip.com/)
2. Go to http://www.nytimes.com
3. Click on any news article
4. Click on "Print" within the article to reformat it for printing
5. Notice the page Title in the top left Blue bar, and count the characters.
5. Print the article to PDF using the Bullzip PDF printer.
6. Notice the file_name.pdf.
7. The file_name will be much shorter than the page Title, which is the problem.

Actual Results:  
Same as above.

Expected Results:  
Would like the entire page Title to be used to create the file_name.pdf.

Same as Expected Results.

Comment 1

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None

Comment 2

[Kyle Rickey]

This also happens with the Adobe PDF printer and FreePDF XP.

Comment 3

[Pietro]

This is a very annoying issue. Windows file system allows 255 characters on a file name, so what´s the problem? Happens with every other pdf printers and does not happen with any other browser.

Comment 4

[humbads]

This is a duplicate bug report:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=478080

Comment 5

[Marcelo Bastos]

Also, a duplicate of the FIXED Bug 531606