Bug 36912 - Postscript print shows followed links
Summary: Postscript print shows followed links
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: konqueror
Classification: Applications
Component: khtml printing (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: RedHat Enterprise Linux Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Konqueror Developers
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Keywords:
: 122123 (view as bug list)
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Reported: 2002-01-06 21:03 UTC by eric
Modified: 2008-11-19 23:44 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description eric 2002-01-06 20:57:36 UTC
(*** This bug was imported into bugs.kde.org ***)

Package:           konqueror
Version:           KDE 2.2.2 
Severity:          normal
Installed from:    RedHat RPMs
Compiler:          Not Specified
OS:                Linux
OS/Compiler notes: Not Specified

I am looking at an HTML document on my local filesystem.  It has hyperlinks to other remote documents.  I had followed some of the links but not all of them.  I printed the page to a postscript file and then looked at with `gv' before killing a tree.  To my surprise the postscript image of the page *exactly* mirrors the state of my browser as far as followed and unfollowed links are concerned.  That is the followed links are purple but the unfollowed links are blue.

This is IMHO *too* accurate a representation for most printouts.  In almost every case I would prefer to have the postscript file show all of the links in their "pristine" unvisited state (blue).  I suppose that there are cases in which it would be useful to have a pixel for pixel replica of the browser's state but that should be an option and not the default.

(Submitted via bugs.kde.org)
Comment 1 Kurt Pfeifle 2007-01-05 23:58:46 UTC
FWIW, I tested this with various other browsers:

IE 5.0, 5.5, 6.0 + 7.0 (on Win32); Opera 9.1 (on Linux); Firefox 1.5 + 2.0 (on Linux): they *all* show the same behavior (link colors change in printout if the links have been followed).

Sure, it would be a nice feature if that feature could be changed by users:

 (a) it may be irrelevant on a paper printout (and be visually unpleasant);
 (b) it may even be an unwanted leakage of privacy if certain links in some
     printouts are highlighted as "been visited".

Should this ever be implemented, then probably only in the context of an overall overhaul of the printing features of Konqueror/KHTML for KDE4. If that is done, please also include an option remove colorizing links altogether in the printouts.

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(Note, that with most browsers you can disable the color change of followed links altogether.)
Comment 2 Kurt Pfeifle 2007-01-08 00:15:57 UTC
This is very similar (possibly the same part of the code) to bug 122123 [ http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=122123 ] which complains that printouts show "box" highlights of links that where middle-clicked (opened in new window/tab). 
Comment 3 Frank Reininghaus 2008-06-27 20:09:13 UTC
*** Bug 122123 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 FiNeX 2008-11-19 23:44:10 UTC
Anyway, the "print CSS" should manage this behaviour.