Printing a page with flash content miss the flash content

[Alexandre Racine]

Binary package hint: firefox

I am on the google analytics pages and printing pages with flash content does not work. The page itself is print, but the flash content is not. In this case, graphics with pie chart.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat May 26 13:30:15 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
Package: firefox 2.0.0.3+1-0ubuntu2
PackageArchitecture: i386
SourcePackage: firefox
Uname: Linux aracine-maison01 2.6.20-15-386 #2 Sun Apr 15 07:34:00 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

[Shrir (shrir)]

isn't bug 133994 covering the same issue?

[Shrir (shrir)]

*** Bug 133994 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Rods (rods)]

Created an attachment (id=76591)
temporary patch

May want to put this in until we get it all working, otherwise we may get a ton
of dups.

[Peterlubczynski-bugs (peterlubczynski-bugs)]

I don't like adding temporary info because:

The size of the plugin may vary and the text may get cropped
The background color may make the string unreadable anyway.
The string would need to be localized and I believe localization freeze is tomorrow

This should probably be relnoted.

[Rubydoo123 (rubydoo123)]

putting this into the 1.0.1 bucket

[Peterlubczynski-bugs (peterlubczynski-bugs)]

*** Bug 129617 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Sujay-formerly-netscape (sujay-formerly-netscape)]

updating summary

[Peterlubczynski-bugs (peterlubczynski-bugs)]

There is quite a bit of work to be done for getting plugins to show up
*correctly* in print preview. Because the plugin API does not support it, we've
somehow got to "snap a picture" of the plugin and display that. Some of the work
may have to be done in gfx or the platform widget toolkits. Pushing out to
plugins 2.0 work.

[Bugz-jeziorek (bugz-jeziorek)]

batch: adding topembed per Gecko2 document
http://rocknroll.mcom.com/users/marek/publish/Gecko/Gecko2Tasks.html

[Jud-me (jud-me)]

is this strictly a print preview problem, or are we not printing plugins/applets
at all?

[Peterlubczynski-bugs (peterlubczynski-bugs)]

this is print preview only

[Bzbarsky (bzbarsky)]

*** Bug 223889 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Bzbarsky (bzbarsky)]

*** Bug 227347 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Vseerror (vseerror)]

*** Bug 261449 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Vseerror (vseerror)]

*** Bug 264239 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Spam-from-bugzilla (spam-from-bugzilla)]

*** Bug 324001 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Spam-from-bugzilla (spam-from-bugzilla)]

In bug 324001, which I've now duped to this one, I noted that print preview of PDF documents currently shows a blank page. I presume that this is covered by this bug, unless a whole-page plugin is treated significantly differently from an embedded plugin.

In the case of a whole-page non-embedded PDF, is it reasonable for Moz to do a print-preview at all? In bug 324001 I suggested that perhaps the Preview menu item should be disabled for PDF pages.

--Phil.

[Lchiarav (lchiarav)]

*** Bug 319630 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Zug-treno (zug-treno)]

*** Bug 329731 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Vseerror (vseerror)]

*** Bug 248936 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Martijn-martijn (martijn-martijn)]

Eli, you happen to know what should be done here?
There is some obvious code in nsObjectFrame.cpp that should be removed, but that doesn't really seem to help.

[Sharparrow1 (sharparrow1)]

Fixing this is basically unworkable until there is some capability to draw a plugin to an arbitrary surface. Also, there's no point to rendering plugins in print preview until we can print them. I'm sure there's a bug somewhere about printing plugins; I can't remember the number.

[Martijn-martijn (martijn-martijn)]

Well, printing seems to work for me. At least, I tried to print a flash file to a pdf printer driver and that seemed to work. Not sure about other plugins.

[Spam-from-bugzilla (spam-from-bugzilla)]

See my comment #17; in the case of PDF (and presumably other formats) printing is handled by the plugin itself (and works), but preview isn't. So for full-page plugins I feel that print preview should be disabled in the UI.

[Sharparrow1 (sharparrow1)]

(In reply to comment #23)
> Well, printing seems to work for me. At least, I tried to print a flash file to
> a pdf printer driver and that seemed to work. Not sure about other plugins.

Sorry, I wasn't really thinking... it does work for Flash (although not much else.) The obvious fix is making the print preview case do the same thing as the print case, right? I'm pretty sure that should work, at least in simple cases. I might be forgetting something, though. (See also Bug 317447.)

(In reply to comment #24)
> See my comment #17; in the case of PDF (and presumably other formats) printing
> is handled by the plugin itself (and works), but preview isn't. So for
> full-page plugins I feel that print preview should be disabled in the UI.

Full-page plugins are a completely different codepath; please file another bug.

[Martijn-martijn (martijn-martijn)]

Thanks for the explanation, Eli!

(In reply to comment #25)
> Full-page plugins are a completely different codepath; please file another bug.

Well, that bug (bug 324001) was made a duplicate against this bug. So I've reopened that bug.

[Alexandre Racine (alexandreracine)]

Binary package hint: firefox

I am on the google analytics pages and printing pages with flash content does not work. The page itself is print, but the flash content is not. In this case, graphics with pie chart.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat May 26 13:30:15 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
Package: firefox 2.0.0.3+1-0ubuntu2
PackageArchitecture: i386
SourcePackage: firefox
Uname: Linux aracine-maison01 2.6.20-15-386 #2 Sun Apr 15 07:34:00 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

Marked as needs info due to we are waiting on info from upstream

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

Changed to in progress

[foxy123 (foxy)]

Got the same problem here.

[Vyv03354 (vyv03354)]

*** Bug 375062 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Alexandre Racine (alexandreracine)]

It does the same thing with 8.04 and firefox 3 (latest updates from today).

Should I simply change the description?

[Alexandre Racine (alexandreracine)]

Upstream : https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=134002

[Me-at-work (me-at-work)]

*** Bug 292644 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Matti-mversen (matti-mversen)]

*** Bug 457915 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Alexandre Racine (alexandreracine)]

This is still valid upstream, why did I received notification of a status change to invalid?

I'll test this again with 8.10 in a couple of weeks.

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

ok, moved to ffox 3. ffox 2 wont see a fix for this thats for sure.

OK, also saw that the upstream bug was a dupe. will fix the link here.

[Hskupin (hskupin)]

*** Bug 240954 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Hskupin (hskupin)]

Mostly too late for 1.9.1 but bringing on the radar for 1.9.2.

[Polidobj (polidobj)]

*** Bug 491674 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Hskupin (hskupin)]

With the work on bug 191046 this will hopefully be fixed on OS X.

[Jst (jst)]

Not blocking 1.9.2 on this.

[Hafiz (hafizahaq)]

I am still facing this issue while embedding flash with
<param name="WMode" value="Transparent"/>

I am on
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-GB; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091102 Firefox/3.5.5 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

Can some one give an update on this issue?

Thanks and Regards,
Hafiz

[Mark Jones (linuxguy2009-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

I'm not sure this is a Firefox only bug. I tested this issue in Epiphany as well and the same thing happens.
Also wanted to point out that this is currently effecting 8.04.4, 9.04, and 10.04 beta 1 live CDs.

[Solracblue2000 (solracblue2000)]

My manifestation of the problem is both in the Print Preview and in the Print functions, involving what appears to be Flash content graphics that don't display in Firefox but display and print fine in IE.

There appears to be a patch shown above. How do I apply that patch? Any help appreciated! (I'm not a programmer)

[Windows-bugs (windows-bugs)]

If you are not a programmer then you probably not in a position to compile the browser. Unless you can compile it the patch won't help you.

[Kevin Brosnan (kbrosnan)]

*** Bug 567151 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Andrei-domuta (andrei-domuta)]

Reproduceable on:
 Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:2.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0

*Note: Print preview for an inline pdf file displays a blank page.
Adobe Plugin Version: 10.0.1.434

[Fmdevelopertim (fmdevelopertim)]

*** Bug 644076 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Fmdevelopertim (fmdevelopertim)]

*** Bug 574674 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Bugzilla-tf (bugzilla-tf)]

*** Bug 812804 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Benjamin Smedberg (Mozilla) [:bs] (benjamin-smedbergs)]

Bug 838763 now covers disabling both the print and print-preview buttons for fullpage plugins. For in-content plugins I don't think we care about printing at this point.

[Pppx (pppx)]

For those, who want to print pages with plugins content, just switch from Firefox to IE9/10, it allows you to print all you want.

[Bugzilla-kennel17 (bugzilla-kennel17)]

(In reply to Benjamin Smedberg [:bsmedberg] from comment #42)
> Bug 838763 now covers disabling both the print and print-preview buttons for
> fullpage plugins. For in-content plugins I don't think we care about
> printing at this point.

Why ever not? This is pretty basic stuff, and other browsers seem to be able to handle it!

If you don't care about printing 'in-content plugins' then how comes you care about printing images - I'm not sure what the conceptual difference is from a user's point of view.

(I'm well aware of the implementation differences from a developer's point of view.)

Please reopen (and - more importantly - fix)!