Description of problem: Printing and printing to file with Firefox-2.0.0.13, causes "compressed words and pharases". I'm not sure what the problem is exactly. Thus far I've seen it in i386 and x86_64 Firefox; and on Fedora 7 and 8. I thought I had reported this problem another time with Firefox and printing (and printing to file) and apparently the consensus was that this was an upstream problem on how did Firefox handled the PostScript conversion of the data or something along those lines. At any rate, I've come across this problem again, and I'm not sure if it was fixed "the first" time. By the way what I see in the print-to-file and print to paper "print-outs" is the same. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): firefox-2.0.0.13-1.fc8.i386 firefox-2.0.0.13-1.fc8.x86_64 firefox-2.0.0.13-1.fc7.i386 firefox-2.0.0.13-1.fc7.x86_64 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open a page with text. 2. Print or print-to-file. Actual results: See attached file. Expected results: The print-out to be normal...
Created attachment 302550 [details] Screenshot of how print-to-file looks in Evince, which is the same as on paper.
Forgot to mention this doesn't happen with Konqueror, but does happen with other Gecko-based browsers (Galeon and Epiphany), the difference seems to be the degree of "deformation" they produce in the print-out. Also firefox and Gecko based browsers in F8 seem to deform only certain parts of the documents, but instead of still being legible, some lines are but a black stain.
Could I ask for some webpage, where you can reproduce it, or is the problem same regardless of URL?
Actually, that's what's bugging me. I seem to be unable to determine which do and which don't... However, I needed to print something out of this site (I'm registering to enter a medical residency in my country)... I was able to reproduce the problem in the site's application information: http://www.cifrhs.org.mx/contenidos/seccion_academica/residencias_medicas/convocatoria08/inscripcion_medicos_mexicanos.html What I did to test this was to print-to-file the page and see that on page 2 in point 3 paragraphs A and B the first line is "compressed" (F8) or the whole paragraphs are mangled (F7).
Created attachment 302749 [details] reproducing the issue The result of printing the suggested page with Firefox3
Created attachment 302825 [details] My current output in F8 x86_64 FF 2.0.0.13 Your output is much better than mine, no doubt. I see a bit strange the fonts, but I guess that's because of the different fonts set across our systems (especially if you are running FF3Beta in F9 Beta, as I'd assume you do)
We filed this bug in the upstream database (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=429638) and believe that it is more appropriate to let it be resolved upstream. Red Hat will continue to track the issue in the centralized upstream bug tracker, and will review any bug fixes that become available for consideration in future updates. Thank you for the bug report.
Yes. Last time I had to deal with this it was said that this was an upstream bug, however I do consider this is to be of a high priority and impact, as many users depend on appropriate printing from the web browser. Especially being this the default browser for not only Fedora or RHEL, but many other distributions. I should have mentioned in the original report, that this problem doesn't show in the Windows version of Firefox, so I'm not sure if it is the inherent mechanism Mozilla is using to translate to PostScript or if some other library in the Linux version is causing this. I couldn't say if this is the same on the MacOS version of Firefox, as I have no access to a Mac nor a MacOS. I hope they get this worked out soon, though.