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This page doesn't print correctly with IE7
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Author: stephane.barizien

Description:
I have found out (the hard way, i.e. by wasting paper -;) that the HDMI page on Wikipedia doesn't print correctly with IE7: some pages are output as blank.

The problem doesn't occur with other browsers.

It has been repro'ed on two vastly different Windows XP Pro SP3 computers, using completely different printers / printer drivers.

The attached zipfile shows results produced with various browsers, using Adobe's "PDF printer."

Version: unspecified
Severity: major
OS: Windows XP
Platform: PC
URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hdmi

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Event Timeline

• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Lowest.Nov 21 2014, 10:30 PM
• bzimport added projects: Browser-Support-Internet-Explorer, WMF-General-or-Unknown, TestMe.
• bzimport set Reference to bz16890.
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• bzimport created this task.Jan 5 2009, 4:09 PM
• bzimport added a comment.Jan 5 2009, 4:12 PM

stephane.barizien wrote:

Sample printouts

Attached:

Copy_of_HDMI_Wikipedia.zip247 KBDownload

• bzimport added a comment.Jan 5 2009, 4:45 PM

matthew.britton wrote:

Tried this myself with IE7/XP SP3.

The same thing seems to happen on other pages, examples being [[Blu-Ray Disc]], [[Hanford Site]] and [[Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard]], but not all pages. On some of them, only parts of pages are blanked out. I can't see anything that the affected pages have in common other than being quite long.

Mr.Z-man added a comment.Feb 25 2009, 5:42 AM

Likely related to or the same as bug 12291

Peachey88 added a comment.Mar 14 2009, 2:54 AM
  • Bug 17973 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
• bzimport added a comment.Mar 17 2009, 3:58 AM

wikimaralia wrote:

Ran into this today with a user at [[Talk:Asthma#Why can I not print this article after page 16?]]:

The user reported several blank pages upon printing (and print previewing) the article [[Asthma]]. I was able to reproduce the problem in IE 7, down to the same blank page numbers reported by the user. There were no likely culprits in the content at the points it went blank (no images, tables, templates, etc.). To check for formatting anomalies anyway, I copied a few pages of the text (including parts that had and had not printed) into a sandbox; it happened again—but at different points in the text. Occurs when using the printable version, too. Of the articles others noted above, I get blank pages in HDMI and Blu-Ray Disc but not Hanford Site.

TheDJ added a comment.May 10 2009, 11:41 PM

On en.wp we suspect this is caused by the CSS property line-height.

See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_talk:Common.css/Archive_7#Printing_issues_with_IE7

We were thinking of adding this to a IE specific CSS stylesheet on en.wp, if that does solve the issue, perhaps we can "upmerge" that.... ?

siebrand added a comment.Jun 4 2009, 11:08 AM

Update Web browser.

siebrand added a comment.Jun 4 2009, 11:35 AM

Adding testme. Please test with Internet Explorer 8 and note the result here.

• bzimport added a comment.Jun 4 2009, 12:22 PM

stephane.barizien wrote:

Seems to work fine with IE8 -- see attached results.

• bzimport added a comment.Jun 4 2009, 12:23 PM

stephane.barizien wrote:

Results with IE8

Attached:

Hdmi_IE8.zip134 KBDownload

siebrand added a comment.Jun 4 2009, 12:57 PM

Closing WONTFIX. Work-around is to update to IE8 per comment 9.

• bzimport added a comment.Jun 4 2009, 7:40 PM

stephane.barizien wrote:

While this is a technically acceptable workaround, I have to note that many corporations (such as the company I work for) prohibit migration to IE8 -- until all browser-related applications have been adapted to IE8, that is.

Platonides added a comment.Jul 29 2009, 10:15 PM

*** Bug 8204 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

TheDJ added a comment.Nov 10 2010, 9:03 PM
  • Bug 12291 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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