Comment 4 for bug 54454

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In , Jonadab (jonadab) wrote :

I would have expected "As Laid Out on Screen" to either
do the equivalent of a screenshot (i.e., truncate where
the screen stops) or not truncate the bottom frames at
all, i.e., if the frame on the left is out of content,
continue printing successive pages of the frame on the
right; top frames, it would seem, should be truncated
in the way they are on the screen. What it currently
does is truncate near the bottom of the first piece of
physical paper, substantially below the bottom of what
shows on the screen, so that it is not at all clear
to the user that the page is being printed as shown
on the screen.

In any case, I did not _notice_ the "As Laid Out on
Screen" option and its various alternatives, and most
of the people who print websites are a good deal less
astute than I in terms of noticing things in dialog
boxes. Patrons at the library where I work are
complaining about this regularly, and while I know
what to tell them now, I should also note here what
they usually tell me: "It only printed the first
page. I told it to print page 2, and it came out
blank." I don't think printing only the first page
should be the default, and I certainly don't think
telling it to print from page 2 to 2 should result
in a blank page when the document is clearly longer
than one page. This gives the user the impression
that the second page is unable to be printed.