printing in firefox-3.0b4 (Hardy) produces white gaps between letters near right margin

[toobuntu]

Binary package hint: firefox

When printing a web page in Firefox/Swiftweasel 3.0b4 in fully up to date Hardy as of 27-Mar-2008, no matter which printer or PPD I choose for that printer, there is a gap of extra white space between characters near the right margin of the page (see attached output of printing to the CUPS-PDF "printer").

This does not occur when printing from Gedit or OpenOffice Writer, for example, but I have noticed other issues when printing from evince: although the on screen display is correct, the printed document will have underlined text shifted over or the entire word of a header shifted over (I mention this, even though I'm reporting a firefox bug, just in case the issues are somehow related).

$ apt-cache policy firefox
firefox:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 3.0~b4+nobinonly-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
     3.0~b4+nobinonly-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main Packages

$ ls /var/cache/apt/archives/swiftweasel*
/var/cache/apt/archives/swiftweasel-3.0b4_pentium-4_ubuntu-i386.deb

$ lsb_release -dr
Description: Ubuntu hardy (development branch)
Release: 8.04

[Michael B. Trausch (mtrausch)]

Confirmed; Wikipedia provides a very easily duplicatable test case for this problem.

To anyone in the know: FF3b4 also sometimes overlaps text near the right, "squashing" it together. Would this be the same bug in terms of spacing, or are they two separate, non-related issues, the latter of which being one that a new report needs to be created for?

[toobuntu (toobuntu)]

Should've mentioned it in the bug description, but I've also experienced the squashing reported by Michael.

[toobuntu (toobuntu)]

IIRC, though, the squashing was in ffb3 and the white space gap as reported here is in ffb4.

[Michael B. Trausch (mtrausch)]

It depends on the site being printed... I will have to try to find a site that shows the squashing/overlapping. I think that the whole print-rendering engine is off, 'cuz it rarely matches the on-screen fonts from the site, too.

[Andreas Moog (ampelbein)]

*** This is an automated response ***

Thank you for your bugreport. Since this seems to be an issue with
version 3 of the firefox browser, I'm reassigning the package. If you
feel this is an error, please don't hesitate to add a comment to your
report.

 affects ubuntu/firefox
 status invalid

 affects ubuntu/firefox-3.0
 status confirmed

[Michael B. Trausch (mtrausch)]

Intrepid no longer has this issue. Pretty sure Hardy doesn't either, but I don't have a Hardy install ATM to test that idea.

[Mike Hicks (hick0088)]

On the contrary, I just experienced this with Intrepid.

[Michael B. Trausch (mtrausch)]

@Mike Hicks:

Have you gone to File→Page Setup and selected your printer in the “Format for” box?