Bug#430914: epiphany-browser: Epiphany ignores paper size when scaling print output
Josselin Mouette
joss at debian.org
Mon Jul 2 20:37:59 UTC 2007
tag 430914 - unreproducible
retitle 430914 Epiphany prints with zero margins between header-footer and border
thanks
Le lundi 02 juillet 2007 à 13:28 -0700, Kevin Brown a écrit :
> > I can indeed reproduce that with note or envelope sizes; this is a known
> > issue with Gecko, which can only render to a small, fixed number of
> > paper sizes.
> >
> > However I can't reproduce this with the US Letter paper size. I have
> > tried to print the same page in both A4 and US Letter formats; the
> > results are completely different, and none of them is truncated at the
> > edges.
>
> OK, I tried printing directly to postscript and discovered what the real
> problem is:
>
> Epiphany was printing to letter without any margins whatsoever. It's
> placing the output directly at the edges of the paper.
>
> So I defined a custom size, "Letter with margins", and added margins to it.
>
> The end result is that the web page image itself is within the margins
> but the header and footer (which tell you the site in the printout and
> the page number) are at the edges.
>
>
> I then changed my printer driver to use the hpijs version and printed
> via Letter (not my custom size) again and that seems to work properly,
> except that the header and footer aren't visible.
>
>
> So I guess if there's any bug here, it's that the print engine doesn't
> account for the margins when placing the header and the footer, only the
> content.
Yes, definitely. It looks like Epiphany doesn't set any margins between
the header/footer and the paper border.
@Glandium: do you know whether it is possible to define this with the
nsIPrintSettings API?
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