Closed Bug 68142 Opened 24 years ago Closed 23 years ago

"Print selection" prints only ONE page [print] [selection]

Categories

(Core :: Printing: Output, defect)

Product:
Core
Component:
Printing: Output
Platform:
x86
All
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED FIXED
Milestone:
Future

People

(Reporter: burnus, Assigned: rods)

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Details

This is 2001-02-07-06/Linux.
If I select a lot (e.g. from the top to the bottom) and print it as selection,
you get only one page. ('1 of 1')

Expected: All selected text/images are printed and the 'i of n' is set
accordingly.

I think this can easily cause 'dataloss' since you expect to get everything
marked being printed (and want to save paper by choosing select).

I really like this print selectection feature -- if only it would support
multi-page printing :-)
Confirming bug.  See
http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/layout/base/src/nsDocumentViewer.cpp#1535
-- this is a known design problem with printing selections.

ccing rods who's the author of that comment and seems to know what's going on
with printing selections.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
Yes, we have deliberately done this as a temporary solution to another problem. 
This will get fixed down the road  when we can do a reflow for just the selected 
portion of content.


Probably a duplicate of bug 59503, although that one is about printing whole
pages, not just a selection.
I can see that on windows too.
OS: Linux → All
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
Summary: "Print selection" prints only ONE page → "Print selection" prints only ONE page [print] [selection]
Target Milestone: --- → Future
*** Bug 85427 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 86384 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 90436 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Blocks: advocacybugs
*** Bug 97170 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 94709 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Keywords: mozilla0.9.5, mozilla0.9.6
Reassigning to Rod
Assignee: dcone → rods
Status: ASSIGNED → NEW
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
this fixed was checked in with the print preview checkin - fixed
Status: ASSIGNED → RESOLVED
Closed: 23 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Tobias, is this working for you now ? can someone confirm that this is
fixed now...thanks.
See bug 142515: This is not fixed completely yet.
The problem persists 
Only one page is printed with a large selection.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; es-ES; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040421
Please file a separate bug with a testcase that shows the problem attached. 
Mention this bug in the opening comment...  cc me on the new bug, please.
Bug 243842 has been filed.  Note that I tested a build right after bug 142515
was checked in and this DID work at the time, so it has broken since then.
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