Bug 54985

Summary:	khtml printing accomodates long unwrapped text by severely scaling page
Product:	[Applications] konqueror	Reporter:	Joseph Reagle <joseph.2011>
Component:	khtml printing	Assignee:	Konqueror Developers <konq-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED LATER
Severity:	major	CC:	itlistuser, kobe, pavel.simerda, ViktorHorvath
Priority:	NOR
Version:	3.5
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Unlisted Binaries
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
Attachments:	This is the example file I won't print I will print

Description Joseph Reagle 2003-02-21 20:05:32 UTC

Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.1)
Installed from:    Debian testing/unstable Packages
OS:          Linux

In Konqueror, if you have a page with a very long preformatted <pre> element, the whole page/document is scaled to accomodate that one line. It's a good effort but can render the printout useless. It'd be nice if it tried, but if the page get's scaled greater than 80%, the the line is simply cut off at the margin.

Comment 1 Michael Goffioul 2003-02-24 09:40:12 UTC

This is how konqueror/khtml works internally. KDEPrint is not responsible
of what is printed and how it gets printed.

Michael.

Comment 2 Stephan Kulow 2003-11-08 19:33:53 UTC

any test case?

Comment 3 Joseph Reagle 2003-11-09 22:55:07 UTC

Created attachment 3117 [details]
This is the example file

Print preview this html file, and you'll see what I mean.

Comment 4 Joseph Reagle 2004-03-13 18:22:55 UTC

Still present in KDE 3.2.1 Debian/Unstable.

Comment 5 Maksim Orlovich 2004-06-10 23:15:56 UTC

*** Bug 45935 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6 Michael Schuerig 2004-08-12 23:46:35 UTC

This "feature" has given me quite a number of printed pages that are completely unreadable. It may be sensible to scale images, it's not sensible at all to scale text. Instead, the stylesheet(s) should be honored, in particular the "@media print"-specific definitions.

Regarding overlong <pre>-lines, they should either be cut off, or wrapped. In the latter case preferrably with a visual indication that this happened.

Michael

Comment 7 Joseph Reagle 2004-09-07 16:10:18 UTC

Still present in 3.3.0 ... Is this report just being ignored?

Comment 8 lexual 2005-04-18 04:24:03 UTC

confirming for 3.4.0

Comment 9 Pavel Simerda 2005-05-26 18:43:24 UTC

hmm, that's bad

Comment 10 Allan Sandfeld 2005-07-13 23:37:05 UTC

The question is how wide in pixels the page should be considered. 

Currently we fit webpages to a sheet by scaling the width.

Comment 11 Pavel Simerda 2006-02-09 23:42:30 UTC

Is there any progress?

Comment 12 Allan Sandfeld 2006-10-24 23:21:29 UTC

*** Bug 121763 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 13 solsTiCe 2006-10-25 22:22:55 UTC

still in kde 3.5.4 
seems to be on the list of the bug to be never fixed

Comment 14 Kurt Pfeifle 2007-01-07 19:24:09 UTC

Bug still present in KDE 3.5.5

(made also $subject more precise)

Comment 15 Kurt Pfeifle 2007-01-13 02:00:42 UTC

*** Bug 139968 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 16 illogic-al 2007-01-13 11:38:54 UTC

Something abstracted from heise.de which demonstrates the problem nicely. 
Two files are going to be uploaded below: one with a long url, and the other without. 
Viewing the two html files in konq produces a page which displays nothing, and one which displays everything. Testcase shows all.

Comment 17 illogic-al 2007-01-13 11:47:26 UTC

Created attachment 19271 [details]
I won't print

Won't print even though text shows up fine in konqueror

Comment 18 illogic-al 2007-01-13 11:50:10 UTC

<pre> is not necessary. We just need to have a sufficiently long line which isn't wrapped. e.g. &nbsp;&nbsp;[8]&nbsp;http://fundraising.wikimedia.org/de/fundcore/list?edit%5Bstart%5D%5Byear%5D=2006&amp;edit%5Bstart%5D%5Bmonth%5D=1&amp;edit%5Bstart%5D%5Bday%5D=12&amp;edit%5Bend%5D%5Byear%5D=2007&amp;edit%5Bend%5D%5Bmonth%5D=1&amp;edit%5Bend%5D%5Bday%5D=12&amp;edit%5Bcurrency%5D=&amp;edit%5Bminimum%5D=200000&amp;op=Ergebnisse+anzeigen&amp;edit%5Bform_id%5D=fundcore_filter

Comment 19 illogic-al 2007-01-13 11:52:42 UTC

Created attachment 19272 [details]
I will print

Segment of unwrapped text remove which "prints" 
(used print to pdf function to test these)

Comment 20 jtscsousa 2007-08-17 12:15:34 UTC

Bug still present in KDE 3.5.7 (Debian Package 4:3.5.7.dfsg.1-4 (lenny/sid)).

I was printing django documentation using konqueror (http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/0.96/newforms/) and the result was 3 illegible pages.

I then printed the same webpage with firefox and it produced 15 pages with truncated text... It's a bit disappointing. There should be some sort of escape from this all or nothing default behaviour(s). Perhaps a warning or configuration option where you choose if you want to shrink the text, truncate long lines or force the long lines to wrap.

Comment 21 Viktor Horvath 2007-11-11 13:34:20 UTC

A possibility to choose the font size, in combination with the existing preview, would not only eliminate this bug, but also a huge pile of others, and it would remove the need for any "intelligence" to find out whether to shrink the page automatically or not.

Using Konqueror/KDE 3.5.8 on Debian unstable.

<rant>
It's a bit sad... I have exactly on of the Heise webpages as mentioned in #16 and can't print it in Konqueror nicely, nor can I print it in Iceweasel nicely - there you can set the font size, but the end of the lines are not printed. In summary: Printing with the two major GNU/Linux browsers is not very robust in the end of 2007... :-/
</rant>

Comment 22 Michael Leupold 2008-04-06 06:26:32 UTC

Both testcases work fine on trunk r793971.

Comment 23 Michael Leupold 2008-04-09 11:34:05 UTC

This problem persists in 3.5.9 but is fixed in trunk r793791.

Comment 24 Michael Leupold 2008-04-09 12:36:14 UTC

reopening as still present in 3.5.9.

Comment 25 Michael Leupold 2008-04-21 10:13:54 UTC

Qualifies for backporting to the 3.x branch.