61218 - page content is truncated at printing to A4 paper

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Printing: Output, defect, P3)

Description

[Masaki Katakai]

When I use A4 papar for printing, some lines are truncated.

1) Start Mozilla
2) Visit www.mozilla.org
3) File -> Print and choose A4 on Print Dialog
4) Print

The banner of Mozilla.org is chopped off.

Setting margin of Top to 1.0 can be reasonable workaround.

Comment 1

[dcone (gone)]

I don't really think this is a bug, you can correct me if I am wrong.. but at 
the point you set it to A4.. the current margin settings can be off. (which they 
are).  At this point the margins are set.. I don't think the software should 
change them.  The user can set up all the marins at this point to get the A4 
setting set up for there printer.

Comment 2

[Masaki Katakai]

Hi Don. This problem was reported from end user who is using a
printer with A4 paper. Some metrix info of the outputs might be
wrong when we switch the paper size. What do you think?
In Japan, A4 paper is more popular than letter size. 

Comment 3

[Bradley Baetz]

See bug 24405 - the default margins are wrong.

Comment 4

[Chase Tingley]

*** Bug 87142 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[sujay]

marking verified....reopen if anyone disagrees..

Comment 6

[Margaret Chan]

Hi Don:

I tend to disagree.  When the print dialog comes up, it allows user to pick
different paper size.  With that in mind, I would expect that the GUI implies
that the default margin would be set appropriately upon any changes of paper
size.  I understand that the user can change the margin to whatever they
like/need, but that would sound like a feature to me and not a user-action that
they must take.   

Comment 7

[dcone (gone)]

From my experience.. it is always not a good Idea to change UI if you can help 
it.. (Disabling, etc are exceptions).  I will mark as remind.. since this would 
be a task I would not get to for a while anyway with the 100+ bugs on my list.

Comment 8

[Igor Nekrestyanov]

How margin depend on paper size?

I used to think that non-printable area depends on device only
and do not depend on size of paper you want to print to.

Are mozilla margins specify offset from real paper border or 
or from printable area (same is before but minus device dead zone)?

It looks like mozilla (with default offset) tries to print 
page starting from paper border. If you print page to A4 device
using A4 format then page header (doc title and location) 
is not printed while page footer is on proper place (rigth above 
printer dead zone)

So may be it's not UI but engine problem.
Do i miss something?

Comment 9

[Christopher Hoess (gone)]

REMIND is deprecated per bug 35839.

Comment 10

[Christopher Hoess (gone)]

->rods

Comment 11

[rods (gone)]

This should work now, reopen if not.

Comment 12

[sujay]

verified.