khtml printing bug: too bad!

[Michael Goffioul]

"Brisset, Nicolas" wrote:
> 
> Dear Michael,
> 
> as many KDE users, I am really impressed by the quality, user-friendliness and
> power of the new printing system in KDE.
> However, I am having problems convincing IT bosses of the maturity of KDE for
> business use when I send them HTML pages (like the excellent 3.0 annoucement)
> as attached .pdf files, where the margins are messed up. Same thing when they
> see what comes out when I print out my e-mails. Apparently, even plain-text
> mails are treated by khtml since page breaks are not handled properly.
> 
> I wanted to submit a bug report and actually saw that it is a well-know
> problem. It is even listed in the TODO list for KDE 3.1, but I think it was
> already there for 3.0 and it apparently does not enjoy a very high priority.
> I know you are not responsible for this, but I suppose you'll be able to
> forward my message to the appropriate person...
> 
> I hope the problem will be solved for KDE 3.1. It would be too bad not to
> correct that bug just when the KDE project communicates so much about the
> excellence of its printing system. The first thing everybody will want to do
> is try it out by printing the announcement from konqueror, and it will give
> them a bad impression. I actually thought that KDE printing was buggy until I
> recently discovered that it was only HTML pages !!
> 
> Thanks for the (truly excellent) work of the KDE-print team,
> 
> Nicolas

As you realized it, this is a well-known problem. Actually, there are
2 problems: the absence of print margins, and the page breaks. The 
print margins problem has been solved and should be available in 3.1.
The page break problem is however not so easy to solve. But even if
the result doesn't look perfect (with lines cut-off), you don't loose
any content as each page top overlaps a little bit the bottom of the
previous one. Nevertheless, I'll forward your bug to the development
mailing list.

Regards.
Michael.

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