Is it just me or is Firefox's printing rather broken?
When I print a web page from Firefox I rarely get to see ethe whole page printed on the printer. If it's really small (i.e. fits on a single sheet) it's OK but otherwise it's useless.
For example I'm currently trying to print out some instructions for loadspeaker repair. They are at:- http://www.audiofriends.nl/refoaming/
When I print this from firefox what I get is a sheet of paper with the headings on it (and nothing else), then a second sheet with the first part of the document and then two blank sheets. Firefox seems incapable of printing one web page on multiple sheets.
On Saturday 31 March 2007 20:52, Chris G wrote:
Is it just me or is Firefox's printing rather broken?
dunno - Iceweasel copes reasonably well (isn't that firefox in a different guise ?)..
http://www.audiofriends.nl/refoaming/
When I print this from firefox what I get is a sheet of paper with the headings on it (and nothing else), then a second sheet with the first part of the document and then two blank sheets.
A quick butchers at the page in question shows that the body of the information is one large jpeg - I'd suggest trying the PDF link at the top of the page..
Regards, Paul.
Is it just me or is Firefox's printing rather broken?
When I print a web page from Firefox I rarely get to see ethe whole page printed on the printer. If it's really small (i.e. fits on a single sheet) it's OK but otherwise it's useless.
For example I'm currently trying to print out some instructions for loadspeaker repair. They are at:- http://www.audiofriends.nl/refoaming/
When I print this from firefox what I get is a sheet of paper with the headings on it (and nothing else), then a second sheet with the first part of the document and then two blank sheets. Firefox seems incapable of printing one web page on multiple sheets.
I would suggest that this problem is an issue with your printer settings (presuming your using CUPS) OR your firefox <-> printer deamon settings [cups] (in firefox) - in my experience, Firefox is perfectly capable of producing single and multiple page output to the printer service.
Unfortunatly, as with most things that tie into the local system, Firefox's system ties into the local OS through its API's, and the settings for those API connections are not always suitable for each machine.
[Saving the planet section] By playing with the CUPS output printer, you could set your output to being to a ps or pcl or similar file, which means you can test different settings without spamming the printer lots and wasting paper.
Good luck JT
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 ?
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.
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.
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