Bug#583278: iceweasel: JS "window.print()" resets paper format to "US Letter"

Wed May 26 18:49:46 UTC 2010

Package: iceweasel
Version: 3.0.6-3
Severity: normal

The Java Script option "window.print()" does reset the paper format
to "US Letter". If you print a page manually (that means clicking on
"File > Print" or pressing [Ctrl]+[P]) Iceweasel does not change the
paper format.

How to reproduce this bug:

Choose a paper format other than "US Letter" (e.g. "A4") by clicking on
"File > Page Setup...". Extract the following code between the lines,
save it e.g. as "test.xht" and open it with Iceweasel. Now click on
"Print". To save paper click on "Cancel" or save the to file. Then
click on "File > Page Setup..." again and you will see that the paper
format has changed to "US Letter".

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en">
    <head>
        <meta http-equiv="content-type"
        content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
        <title>test document</title>
    </head>
    <body>
        <p>
        <a href="javascript:window.print()">Print</a> this test
        document.
        </p>
    </body>
</html>

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Best regards

Raphael

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.4
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_CH.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_CH.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages iceweasel depends on:
ii  debianutils             2.30             Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  fontconfig              2.6.0-3          generic font configuration library
ii  libc6                   2.7-18lenny2     GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgcc1                 1:4.3.2-1.1      GCC support library
ii  libglib2.0-0            2.16.6-3         The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgtk2.0-0             2.12.12-1~lenny1 The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libnspr4-0d             4.7.1-5          NetScape Portable Runtime Library
ii  libstdc++6              4.3.2-1.1        The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  procps                  1:3.2.7-11       /proc file system utilities
ii  psmisc                  22.6-1           Utilities that use the proc filesy
ii  xulrunner-1.9           1.9.0.19-1       XUL + XPCOM application runner

iceweasel recommends no packages.

Versions of packages iceweasel suggests:
ii  latex-xft-fonts 0.1-8                    Xft-compatible versions of some La
ii  libkrb53        1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-5lenny4 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
pn  mozplugger      <none>                   (no description available)
pn  ttf-mathematica <none>                   (no description available)
pn  xfonts-mathml   <none>                   (no description available)
pn  xprint          <none>                   (no description available)
ii  xulrunner-1.9-g 1.9.0.19-1               Support for GNOME in xulrunner app

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