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Bug 75822
Opened 25 years ago
Closed 25 years ago
Printed page should not include title, et al.
Categories
(Core :: Printing: Output, defect)
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(Reporter: russ-2, Assigned: dcone)
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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.4.3 i686; en-US; 0.8.1) Gecko/20010326
BuildID: 20010413
When I print a screen, I expect the printed page to look like the screen.
Currently, the page title appears at the left margin and the actual page is
indented another margin-width inside (to the right) of that. Page numbers and
date at the bottom is also unwelcome. These additions cause the text (and other
screen elements) to be very small.
For test example, go to
http://www.darwinpartners.com/scripts/DPForms/timesheet.asp and fill out fields
at the top of the screen and hit 'Submit.' Print the resulting page to a
(postscript) file. In Netscape 4, the logo at the upper left of the screen
would appear in the upper left of the printed page, with the right-side of the
"time table" near the right edge of the paper. In Mozilla, a title appears in
the upper left, with a URL in the upper right, and the actual screen is
"indented" inside both margins, causing a significantly different appearance.
I believe that a user expects the printed page to appear very similar to the
on-screen page, without a title, page number or generation date.
Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.http://www.darwinpartners.com/scripts/DPForms/timesheet.asp
2.Fill in top fields
3.Print to file and view
Actual Results: The printed page looks substantially different from the screen,
due to title, URL, page number, etc.
Expected Results: Mozilla should have printed the exact screen, and only the
screen. It should not compact the screen to fit in a small printed area. It
should not add extraneous information to the printed page.
There appears to be no workaround for this. I am expected to fax a timesheet
that I print from this particular website. The page that prints from Mozilla is
unfaxable, due to the "translation." As a result, this bug prevents my use of
Mozilla as my primary browser.
If there were options to suppress extraneous information (or even if Mozilla
would print the screen at the requested margins rather than indented), this
would be less severe.
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Comment 1•25 years ago
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Comment 2•25 years ago
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note that with @media print stylesheets users should learn to change their
expectations....
Marking duplicate.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 42817 ***
i wonder why this has to wait for back end or front end preference
changes. i can understand if *adding* printing options (such as a
header or footer) is a feature, but default printing of certain
headers and footers is, imho, a bad choice as a default. should it
not just be disabled and the re-enabled when it can be provided as
a preference? i agree with the bug reporter that this makes
mozilla unusable for printing. if i am making bad assumptions in
the text above, my apologies!
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