Firefox:Printing and Page Setup: Difference between revisions
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Firefox NEEDS to have an editable print preview. I believe that pre-print modification is a high-demand feature. Have you not copyed a web page into word to remove some annoying ads and cut to the content you need? Just some primative editing funntionality must be added. | Firefox NEEDS to have an editable print preview. I believe that pre-print modification is a high-demand feature. Have you not copyed a web page into word to remove some annoying ads and cut to the content you need? Just some primative editing funntionality must be added. | ||
== Comment by [[User:Wildman|Art Wildman]] == | |||
I use the 'Nuke Anything' extension to modify preprint pages in Firefox. It's not perfect but if helps remove unwanted ink/paper wasting objects... greasemonkey, addblock and a few others can help customize and pre-format pages too. BTW, I wrote the original Printing and Page Setup UI scratchpad and contributed these references in an older wiki to document a 4 year old bug & missing features in Mozilla/Firefox/Thunderbird. It is rather complicated due to the cross platform nature of Mozilla and how each OS handles Printing differently. If only someone like HP would design an open standard Printer Driver Spec/Page Setup UI for multiple OSes... life would be simpler & better for our opensource friends. [http://www.linuxprinting.org/ LinuxPrinting.org] | |||
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Revision as of 13:56, 15 January 2006
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| | +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Page Setup +------------------------+-------------------------+ | | | Paper & Format Options | Margins & Header/Footer | | | +-----------------------+ +-------------------------+ | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | | | | | Paper Options | | | | | | |----------------------------------------------------------------------| | | | | | | | | | | | +--+ +-----+ | | | | | | Orientation (x) Portrait | | (o) Landscape | | | | | | | | | | +-----+ | | | | | | +--+ | | | | | | | | | | | | Scale [ 100 % ] (x) Shrink To Fit Page Width | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Paper Size (v)[ Letter, Legal, A4... ] | | | | | | | | | | | | Paper Source (v)[ Sheet, Borderless, Tray#... ] | | | | | | | | | | | | (x) Duplex ( Long Edge ) (o) Duplex ( Short Edge ) | | | | | | | | | | | | (x) Page Order: Print Last Page First | | | | | | | | | | | |----------------------------------------------------------------------| | | | | | Format Options & Color | | | | | |----------------------------------------------------------------------| | | | | | | | | | | | (x) Print All Text Black (o) Print Beveled Lines | | | | | | | | | | | | (o) Print Black Lines (o) Print Backgrounds ( Colors & Images ) | | | | | | | | | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | | | | ( OK ) ( Set Defaults ) ( Cancel ) | | | +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
Comment by Doug Feigelson
Firefox NEEDS to have an editable print preview. I believe that pre-print modification is a high-demand feature. Have you not copyed a web page into word to remove some annoying ads and cut to the content you need? Just some primative editing funntionality must be added.
Comment by Art Wildman
I use the 'Nuke Anything' extension to modify preprint pages in Firefox. It's not perfect but if helps remove unwanted ink/paper wasting objects... greasemonkey, addblock and a few others can help customize and pre-format pages too. BTW, I wrote the original Printing and Page Setup UI scratchpad and contributed these references in an older wiki to document a 4 year old bug & missing features in Mozilla/Firefox/Thunderbird. It is rather complicated due to the cross platform nature of Mozilla and how each OS handles Printing differently. If only someone like HP would design an open standard Printer Driver Spec/Page Setup UI for multiple OSes... life would be simpler & better for our opensource friends. LinuxPrinting.org
References:
Page Setup form in Netscape 4.78 (all 4.x)
Bugzilla# 153363 Prtinting in sharp B&W
Bugzilla# 62422 Printing should allow control over the header and footer, orientation, printer selection, which pages to print
Bugzilla# 118563 The new print properties dialog does not save papersize
Printing UI
Thoughts About a Print UI for Mozilla
Bugzilla# 125824 make print settings better (tracking bug)
Bugzilla# 181527 Printing always prints full header
Programmers File Editor Print-UI
Programmers File Editor Print-UI gifs