748935 - [Meta] pdf.js - Feature: Printing

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox :: PDF Viewer, defect)

Description

[Artur Adib]

We either enable the printing of all pages (including books with 1,000+ pages) or we need to reliably alert users when we know we can't handle it. 

We don't want to waste users' papers by printing only a part of their document/book.

Comment 1

[Willy_ Foo_Foo]

Can we also add a option to print a webpage to pdf?

Comment 2

[Julian Viereck]

(In reply to magnumarchonbasileus from comment #1)
> Can we also add a option to print a webpage to pdf?

This is about printing support in PDF.JS - not about saving web pages to PDFs. 

AFAIK there is no "Save as PDF" support in Firefox on Mac, but you can save a PDF from the Mac print dialog. For other platforms, you could use a plugin like this one:

   https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/save-as-pdf/

(I haven't tested this one, as I'm working on Mac...)

Comment 3

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

This bug isn't clear.

- Is this a meta bug? Then it should have Meta 
- If not, perhaps we need STR etc.
- Either way, neither summary nor description are very descriptive...

Comment 4

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

(In reply to Thomas D. from comment #3)
> This bug isn't clear.
> 
> - Is this a meta bug? Then it should have Meta 
> - If not, perhaps we need STR etc.
> - Either way, neither summary nor description are very descriptive...
Also: Is this limited to MAC?

Comment 5

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

Adding pdf.js to summary to improve retrievability of this meta bug for searches and avoid duplicates

Comment 6

[AM]

Above all the pdf should just spool through to the printing system- there are many corruption
problems because pdf.js is interpreting the file and the result is far far worse than the screen view.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=880181

but there are many other similar bugs of unreadable results even on a single page print.

Comment 7

[Marco Castelluccio [:marco]]

No need for this metabug anymore.