firefox scales too small when printing

[Hadmut Danisch]

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

Hi,

firefox scales pages wrong if absolute values are given in CSS sheets of pages, which,
e.g. tell that a div is 5cm wide or a font is 10pt large. Everything is too small.

In contrast, Microsoft's Internet Explorer prints correctly, so it does not seem to be a problem of the web pages.

It seems as if there was some scaling factor that tells firefox a wrong page size.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0.14+build2+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.04.1
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/tcsh
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-15-generic i686

[Hadmut Danisch (hadmut)]

I've found the reason:

If the html page contains a <pre>...</pre> statement with *very long* lines, firefox scales the page down to fit as much as possible on the page unless a style "overflow:hidden;" is given. If so, the page appears corrently, but, of course, the contents are cut.

I am not sure whether this is really a bug, but it differs from all other browsers I've tested (IE, konquerer,galeon).

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

I am not sure if its a bug either. I would suggest that you try to find a dupe in bugzilla.mozilla.org (also search wontfixed and other closed bugs) and if there is none, file a new bug.

A good start might be "Product: Core and Component: Printing - Output" to file this against.

Please give us your bug id.

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

On top, could verify this with firefox-3.5/6/7 from our daily ppa first?

See: https://edge.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-mozilla-daily/+archive/ppa

Thanks.