After several years of relative stability following the widespread adoption of CUPS, end-user printing in Linux has once again become a nightmare. The problem is no longer getting the printer to talk to the computer; it is now a raft of bugs in various page rendering components that pass output to the printer driver. I see these various problems as unrelated to one another, but cumulatively they are turning the use of Linux for me into a trying act of faith rather than a positive experience. (I say this as someone who has used Linux almost exclusively for over eight years and has often gone three to six months without booting into Windows.) You might wish to Google my posts to the Launchpad bug database, ubuntuforums.org, kubuntuforums.net and the kde- linux mailing list on some of the individual problems.
This precise problem with overprinting headers and footers is, to the best of my knowledge, unique to Firefox. Since Firefox, even in Kubuntu, relies on a certain number of GNOME components and I do not run GNOME, others will be better than placed than I to determine whether this problem affects other applications which rely on GNOME print routines. For the time being, printing in kate is reliable and stable. Alleluia. The same cannot be said for konqueror. I hope I have this right: konqueror relies on the renderer in qt 4.6 and qt4.6 is a bug farm. The one that bites us North American users hardest --- if my amateur analysis is correct, and it might not be --- is a failure to define the bottom of the page correctly. The users loses the last 3-4 lines of each page plus any footer. My guess, and it's only a guess, is that in the transition of Trolltech (designers of qt) to Nokia ownership, a reference to the SI A4 paper spec got hardcoded into the print renderer rather than a reference to the user's printer configuration. John Layt has put in a lot of work trying to fix these qt bugs; you might also want to Google some of his work. I hope this answers your question. Please let me know if it doesn't. Bruce ----- Original Message ---- > From: Micah Gersten <launch...@micahscomputing.com> > To: b...@brmiller.ca > Sent: Thu, January 7, 2010 2:57:06 AM > Subject: [Bug 503693] Re: headers and footers in Firefox 3.5.6 and later > overprint main text > > Thank you for reporting this to Ubuntu. Does this occur in other > applications like Kate or Konqueror? > > ** Changed in: firefox-3.5 (Ubuntu) > Status: New => Incomplete -- headers and footers in Firefox 3.5.6 and later overprint main text https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/503693 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
