Firefox:Printing and Page Setup
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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 primitive editing functionality must be added.
Comment by Art Wildman
I use the 'Nuke Anything' extension to modify preprint pages in Firefox. It's not perfect but it 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 users and 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
Comment by Thomas Lendo
For better customization it should be possible to change the header and footer margin space, to order the header and footer text like you want (e.g. "title - URL" at the center of the page, not "title" on the left side and "URL" centered) and to set a maximum length of the URL shown in the header/footer. An URL, which is too long for a single line, should wrap to a new line up to the maximum given length. The content size of the page shrinks with every new header/footer line. Default should be an automatical max. length with single line and no wrap.
Especially Thunderbird needs more options: possibility to show more data on the top of the printout (e.g. account name), adaptability (font, font size, bold, underlined) of the data on the top of the printout (account name, sender, subject heading, …), more appealing integration of attachements (neat pictures instead of the cold facts of content type and content encoding) and choice of insertion of attachments - before content or after it.