571223 - print only prints a portion of the page - Mac OS X

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 129941

(Core :: Printing: Output, defect)

Description

[gggluv]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.20) Gecko/20081217 Firefox/2.0.0.20
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.20) Gecko/20081217 Firefox/2.0.0.20

printing fails approx 20% of the time. depends if the page is compliant i guess. i like to print web pages. and print to pdf. this has been a known bug for years. happens with Camino, Firefox.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1.print to pdf. the resulting pdf of the page will be cut off half way down.
2. try this site too: http://lowendmac.com/deals/best-power-mac-g4-prices.html
3.
Actual Results:  
page is cut

Expected Results:  
full page gets printed

a bad, known bug. has been ignored for years. happened in 10.4, 10.5, PPC, OSX86, all browsers built on the core. why does this not get addressed, its a major issue.

Comment 1

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

In my trunk build, I do indeed get cropped content when print-previewing the URL[1] in the URL field, but I have no issues at the URL given in comment 0.  (maybe the underlying problem with that one has been fixed since Firefox 2.0 :))

[1] http://www.stockhouse.com/Community-News/2010/May/5/Investor-Success-Follows-Management-Success

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.3a5pre) Gecko/20100605 Minefield/3.7a5pre

Comment 2

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

And the stockhouse.com URL has print issues due to presence of "overflow: hidden" on a div that wraps all of the main content, with ID "gs_main".

If I manually add style = "overflow: visible" on that node, in DOM inspector, then page print-previews just fine.

Comment 3

[gggluv]

thanks for looking at this. i know it was duplicate bug. just wanted to bump this along and let you know some users are still hoping its going to be fixed. i did test the latest Camino OS X 2.0.3 and the same printing issue was encountered. thank you.