Bug 90308 - fedex.com labels print poorly due to image scaling
Summary: fedex.com labels print poorly due to image scaling
Status: RESOLVED REMIND
Alias: None
Product: konqueror
Classification: Applications
Component: khtml printing (show other bugs)
Version: 3.3
Platform: RedHat Enterprise Linux Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Konqueror Developers
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Reported: 2004-09-27 09:46 UTC by Adam Wiggins
Modified: 2008-05-15 04:41 UTC (History)
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Description Adam Wiggins 2004-09-27 09:46:11 UTC
Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.3.0)
Installed from:    RedHat RPMs
OS:                Linux

The FedEx.com website allows you to ship packages by printing your own labels.  The labels contain barcodes and so have to be high-resolution to print properly; but it is also necessary that the label fit the page size more or less exactly.  In order to make this work in a browser without any special activex/java/whatever components, they do the (IMO) rather clever trick of having an HTML page which contains a high resolution image and the width set to 100% (or a little less).  Here is a small test case:

http://dusk.org/~adam/bugzilla/label.html

When printing from IE, Mozilla, Firefox etc this works as expected.  The label looks kind of crappy onscreen due to scaling, but when printing the browser uses the high-res image and you get a nice looking label which fits the page size.  Konq, on the other hand, seems to use the image as scaled to the browser window and so you get very blocky output on the resulting printout.  This basically makes the fedex.com website unusuable for printing labels in Konq.
Comment 1 Rudo Thomas 2004-12-16 04:10:03 UTC
I can confirm this bug.
Comment 2 Kurt Pfeifle 2007-01-05 03:07:19 UTC
@Rudo, Adam:

Can you  provide a test file? (The URL to "label.html" given above is no longer valid).
Comment 3 Kurt Pfeifle 2007-01-07 17:32:50 UTC
@Rudo, Adam: 
 
...and can you please test with KDE 3.5.5 (you can use a Knoppix 5.1.1 for this too, if you can't upgrade your KDE) ? 
Comment 4 Michael Leupold 2008-04-21 00:29:55 UTC
Adam, unfortunately the testcase you posted is no longer available. Could you please check if you still have a copy of it?
Comment 5 A. Spehr 2008-05-15 04:41:33 UTC
If can give us updated information, and this still exists in a newer version, can you reopen this bug? Thanks.