FC5 Firefox not rendering print same ast FC3

[Tony Nelson]

At 7:13 PM +0000 5/1/06, David Scholes wrote:
>I just upgraded from FC3 to FC5 and everything went well except I'm
>getting some firefox printing problems that were previously corrected in
>FC3.  I'm not getting any responses from the firefox mailing list so looks
>like I need to go back to the version I was using on FC3.
>
>Do I need to build from source?  I tried using the FC3 rpm but ran into
>problems.  Appreciate any pointers on a best plan of action.
>
>More info below from my post to the firefox list:
>
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>I recently upgraded from (Fedora Core) FC3 to FC5 and am now using
>firefox-1.5.0.2-1.2.fc5.  Everything went well with the upgrade except the
>new version of firefox no longer cleanly renders some pages for printing
>or Print Preview.  This is a problem I encountered early on when I first
>used FC3 but it went away after a few upgrades of firefox.
>
>We use a web based application that generates a report.  It appears to be
>a form with some protected fields.  You can change some of the values by
>making changes in those that are unprotected.  They are using some kind of
>javascript and frames so you don't see the details by doing a view source.
>When printing or in print preview the data in the text boxes is not
>centered and gets cut off.  Also some pages that used to print on one page
>now flow onto a second.
>
>I also use the latest same version of firefox on a Win XP machine and the
>printing is fine there.
>
>I've tried going back to the firefox rpm that was used in FC3 but
>evidently there are some font differences or something.  It installed but
>.... multitude of problems.
>
>I've also tried turning off pango by setting the env variable
>MOZ_DISABLE_PANGO=1
>
>Any help appreciated!

Have you tried building on FC5 the FC3 Firefox from the SRPM?  Sometimes
that approach works around problems.  Note that you may need several other
SRPMs to assemble a complete Firefox from various Firefox and Mozilla bits.
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