Bug 1003198 - Printing to file in Firefox fails unless the filename or the target directory are modified
Summary: Printing to file in Firefox fails unless the filename or the target directory...
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
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Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: gtk2
Version: 19
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Assignee: Matthias Clasen
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-08-31 17:55 UTC by Ilja Sekler
Modified: 2015-01-12 20:43 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2015-01-12 20:43:29 UTC
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Description Ilja Sekler 2013-08-31 17:55:02 UTC
Printing to a file from a gtk2 Firefox build doesn't generate any file unless either the filename or the folder where the output should go are modified.


gtk2-2.24.19-3.fc19.x86_64
firefox-23.0.1-1.fc19.x86_64 (happens with the current Firefox trunk as well)


How reproducible: always.


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Load a web page, open the print dialog, select "print to file".
2. Press the "Print" button.
3. Repeat the step 1.
4. Modify either the filename (e.g. to "mozilla-1.pdf") or the directory (e.g. from $HOME to $HOME/Documents) or both.
5. Repeat the step 3.

Actual results:

No file is created after the step 2, but only one of ~/mozilla-1.pdf, ~/Documents/mozilla.pdf or ~/Documents/mozilla-1.pdf, depending on the exact actions in the Step 4.


Additional info:

Choosing a different directory and then choosing back the original directory in the dropdown list enables printing to a file too. gtk3 builds of the current Firefox trunk (yea :-)) are not affected, this makes gtk2 as in Fedora a probable culprit (the issue doesn't exist on Ubuntu 12.04, which uses an older version of gtk+2.0: 2.24.10).

Comment 1 Ilja Sekler 2013-08-31 17:57:16 UTC
Err, in STR "5. Repeat the step 3" should be "5. Repeat the step 2".

Sorry for bugspam.

Comment 2 Trevor Cordes 2013-12-18 10:58:51 UTC
Confirmed.  This bug seems to be filed against Firefox (probably because it is the most common), but it affects everything that uses that print dialog box.  I found it affects claws-mail, which presents the exact same dialog.

Our hunch here is also that it is a GTK bug.

It affects me on:
claws-mail-3.9.2-7.fc19.i686
firefox-26.0-2.fc19.i686
gtk2-2.24.22-2.fc19.i686

For reference, but not terribly useful because this isn't a firefox bug, see mozilla bug:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=894966

Comment 3 gregory 2014-08-04 14:36:43 UTC
I see this problem with PDF file format too (on Fedora 20):
gtk2-2.24.22-2.fc20.x86_64
firefox-31.0-1.fc20.x86_64
Mozilla Firefox 31.0
Interestingly enough, the Print to File works fine if Postscript is chosen as the format (which may be related to this being rather an issue with GTK2). However, in this case the name of the file to write to is not memorised/saved and when printing again only .ps appears in the name field of the Print -> General -> Print to File menu.

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Comment 5 Trevor Cordes 2015-01-10 11:47:25 UTC
This appears fixed in F21.  It was never fixed in 19.  Don't know about F20.  But I tried very hard and could not reproduce this bug in F21, so I would mark this as resolved upstream.

Comment 6 Ilja Sekler 2015-01-12 20:43:29 UTC
(In reply to Trevor Cordes from comment #5)
> This appears fixed in F21.  It was never fixed in 19.  Don't know about F20.

This is fixed in F20 as well, presumably by <https://git.gnome.org/browse/gtk+/commit/?h=gtk-2-24&id=60189143a4097c615f9cda0dbec2cd48b4eca77d> from <https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=711177>. gtk2-2.24.24 is the first gtk2 release containing the fix.


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