On Sun, Apr 01, 2007 at 05:20:34PM +0100, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
On Sat, 2007-03-31 at 20:52 +0100, Chris G wrote:
Is it just me or is Firefox's printing rather broken?
For example I'm currently trying to print out some instructions for loadspeaker repair. They are at:- http://www.audiofriends.nl/refoaming/
I have to ask, why in this case you are not simply downloading the PDF of those instructions that is available from the top menu and printing that ?
I think that's what I did in the end, it was more an example of the printing problems I have seen in Firefox than a specific thing I couldn't do.
But back on topic, Firefox in my opinion copes as well as (if not better) at printing that most other browsers, including IE < Version 7.
Most of the problems relate to site layouts that are naturally optimised for screen aspect ratios not translating to well to A4 paper.
However the problem with that site I fear is the complete mess of the (MS publisher generated) source. Which has generated the site as one big table (with loads of cells for layout padding) and then stuck the actual content as a giant single jpeg in the middle. This is most likely confusing the daylights out of the print rendering in firefox.
Hmm, I'll have to take a look at other cases. I've certainly found before that a page which Firefox just prints a part of on one sheet and ignores the rest seems to work OK in IE. However that was with Firefox 1.5.x.x, I've not noticed one with 2.0.0.03 yet. I don't very often print stuff off the web, it's usually only things I need away from the computer (like the above instructions) and maps/notes etc. to use on holiday.