firefox print - page margins

[svecpetr]

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

in ubuntu firefox missing dialog with setting print margins

that can you find in windows version in File -> Page Settings -> Margins and footer and header

[Jürgen 'jiha' Harter (jiha-bugzilla)]

With bug 193001 the old File ->Page Setup Dialog was replaced with the system's gnome dialog. Options not provided by the system's dialog should have been shifted to a custom options tab in the new print dialog (File ->Print ->Options).

However the possibility of setting borders of the pages sent by Mozilla to the system's print system is missing. And Mozilla does not not recognize the page borders provided by the system. Actually I don't know whether it could get the border settings from i.e. the CUPS settings at all.

We need the possibility to set the borders of the pages sent to the printing system.

[Jürgen 'jiha' Harter (jiha-bugzilla)]

Maybe this bug is a dupe of bug 192999 or it should depend on it. But I'm not really sure.

[Jürgen 'jiha' Harter (jiha-bugzilla)]

(In reply to comment #0)

> We need the possibility to set the borders of the pages sent to the printing
> system.

The old functionality could/should be provided in the options tab of the new print dialog.

[Ventnor-bugzilla (ventnor-bugzilla)]

You can set margins by making a custom paper size in the Page Setup, which is how it is usually done in GNOME apps.

[Kairo-kairo (kairo-kairo)]

That's very unintuitive, I don't think that normal, non-tech users even find that (heck, even I didn't) - apart from the known problems with custom paper sizes and various printer drivers.
I don't even think that people will find that they can't change the paper format in the print dialog like everywhere else, but only via page setup.

[Elmar-ludwig (elmar-ludwig)]

*** Bug 417391 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Elmar-ludwig (elmar-ludwig)]

*** Bug 458609 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Unghost-mozilla-russia (unghost-mozilla-russia)]

*** Bug 509720 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Norbert (nrbrtx)]

Bump!
It's 2012. Firefox 13.0.1 still does not have page margins, headers, footers settings.
Please fix this issue.

[Machinegodzilla (machinegodzilla)]

Firefox 21. Setting margin settings still buried deep. Only found out how to do it while searching if there is a bug against that.

[Hb-calen (hb-calen)]

*** Bug 783079 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Norbert (nrbrtx)]

Bug exists in Firefox 52.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Norbert (nrbrtx)]

Bug exists in Firefox 52.
Yes, after 8 years of Firefox evolution.

[Norbert (nrbrtx)]

Found bug report on launchpad, which is 8 years old, was about Firefox 3.0 - https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/414679.

[Alberto Salvia Novella (es20490446e)]

That's probably because that setting is not necessary per impression, but per printer. So configuring the margins in Systems Settings would be enough.

On the other hand in Windows configuring the margins in the Control Panel is hard if not impossible, so that's why the setting is included appart in that platform.

Anyway, if you find this explanation is wrong, you can set status back to "confirmed".

[Laura Creighton (lac)]

Firefox 52

All I want to do is print some graphical images -- maps -- on paper with no margins, or as close to no margins as I can get.

So how do I set margins to 0?

It's not in print preview.
It's not in page setup.

As far as I can tell it's _nowhere at all_.

I gave up and used chrome.

[Sledru (sledru)]

Moving to p3 because no activity for at least 1 year(s).
See https://github.com/mozilla/bug-handling/blob/master/policy/triage-bugzilla.md#how-do-you-triage for more information

[Timea-babos (timea-babos)]

Marking this as resolved:wfm. It's been a long time since this issue was reported and with the latest work on Firefox Print Preview setting up custom margins (even having 0) is now easy to do and at hand.