Ok, so well, does Konqueror exhibit the same problem as Firefox? That should tell us if the problem is in CUPS or something else.
Thanks. On 01/07/2010 10:07 AM, Bruce Miller wrote: > 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 -- 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
