| Summary: | Printing konqueror web pages results in very large fonts | ||
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| Product: | [Applications] konqueror | Reporter: | Wilbur Pan <wilburpan> |
| Component: | khtml renderer | Assignee: | Konqueror Developers <konq-bugs> |
| Status: | RESOLVED DUPLICATE | ||
| Severity: | wishlist | CC: | kde, nicolas.girard |
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | Gentoo Packages | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
| Sentry Crash Report: | |||
| Attachments: |
Web page as displayed in konqueror
Print preview of webpage |
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Description
Wilbur Pan
2004-02-20 00:10:43 UTC
Created attachment 4782 [details]
Web page as displayed in konqueror
This screenshot shows what a webpage (from my search through the KDE Bugzilla,
actually) looks like on my system.
Created attachment 4783 [details]
Print preview of webpage
This screenshot shows the print preview for this webpage. As you can see, the
fonts are considerably larger.
Version:(KDE 3.2.1, (testing/unstable)) Installed From: Debian Sid Compiler: gcc version 3.3.3 (Debian) OS: Linux Confirming, can reproduce this issue in Debian Sid. Works properly in Testing version (3.1.5), broken in Sid (3.2.1). There really ought to be a way to specify the default font size for printing just as there is for displaying on screen. Yes, this is very annoying, because the workaround (temporarily setting smaller font size in Konqueror, print, resetting original font size) is a pain. I agree with comment#4, and would go even further: there should be a specific 'print font' menu, where the user could specify font family _and_ size for all fonts. The reason is that some fonts print well and render less well on a screen and vice versa. In terms of presentation, I suggest two tabs (Display Fonts/Printing Fonts), each of them containing the font menu (Standard/Fixed/Serif/Sans serif/Cursive/Fantasy). In addition, KDE could be smarter for the default behaviour, when no printing fonts are explicitely set. The reason why there is a size discrepancy in the first place is that screen resolution (available in the 'Info Center', or simply with `xdpyinfo | grep resolution`) is different from printing resolution. Printing resolution is, I think, assumed to be 72dpi, and screen resolution is usually higher (for example 101x101 on a 21" 1600x1200 screen). So the right thing to do by default is to dynamically correct by the ratio screen/print resolution. I see this as a wishlist.
BTW: you can do all that described in #5. Set a user style sheet with
@media print {
body {
font-family: monospace;
font-size: 8pt;
}
}
The print font menu I can see as being a wishlist, but it still does not address the original issue, which should be a bug. Any normal person would expect that if you print what you are seeing in a web browser, that the printout would look pretty close to what you see on the screen. I agree with Wilber. Reasonable sized printing is not a feature, but a necessity. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 71202 *** this continues to be a serious thorn with many people. mozilla firefox and konqueror, for example, both refuse to print what you see on your browser screen correctly after a text size increase or decrease. they just totally ignore it. this is ridiculous. microsoft's internet explorer has been printing resized text 'correctly' for well over 3 years now. why is this taking so long? firefox for win32 exhibits the same behaviour. attempts at reporting and getting the bug fixed at firefox's bugzilla has usually resulted in being told by developers that it's doing exactly what it should do. users do not want a headache; they want to print what they see. |