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[Dave Howorth <dhoworth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Randall R Schulz wrote:
> I am almost always frustrated by the results of printing HTML pages from 
> Firefox (I'm using version 2.0.x).

Interesting responses from various people and I agree with much of
what's been said but I think everybody's missed the point ...

> The most common problem I encounter is that text lines mean nothing
> to the pagination process and it is common for a row of text to be
> sliced horizontally and split across a page boundary.

This isn't true for Firefox, at least not for FF 1.5 or 2. Firefox does
split text in complete rows as you'd hope (and it tries to follow most
of CSS2). I never see the problem you describe with either FF1.5 or FF2.

I think it's much more likely that this is a problem with page margin or
header settings or printable area in the Firefox or printer config.
Sorry, I don't have any more specific suggestion to offer.

FWIW, the main problems I see with FF are:

- when authors use position:absolute wrongly (they haven't read CSS2
chap 13 - paged media as Per suggested :) and that leads to all the
output just flowing off the bottom of a single page.

- when there's a long pre-formatted line, leading FF to shrink it to fit
and making all the text unreadably small. I think FF is at least partly
at fault for that.

Cheers, Dave
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