I’ve noticed the Print Preview results in Firefox look sloppy compared to that of Internet Explorer’s print preview. Maybe it’s just me but Firefox’s preview trunacates text outside the page borders even if a print style sheet is setup to do just the opposite. IE on the other hand (with a print style sheet) displays the text in the preview inside the margin boundaries.

For testing purposes I’ve set up a print style sheet for the main index of kartooner.com (in other words, the front page of this web site and not the archives).

Try this experiment for me; if you are using Firefox go to File > Print Preview and screen capture the results. If per chance you are using Internet Explorer please do the same.

Would you be so kind and send your screen capture(s) to erik(at)kartooner(dot)com.

I’ll be sure to display the results and hopefully I’m not just seeing things.

I should mention that I’m currently using Firefox 0.8 (nightly build) on Windows XP. Thanks goes to Adam Bramwell for sending me the first Firefox screenshot.

Likewise, his results are the same on his nightly release for Windows XP. Anyone else getting these results? Apparently, Nico Kaiser has also received similar results with Firefox on Debian and Chad Cooper on Windows XP. Is this a bug?

Firefox 0.8 / Latest Build - Print Preview screenshots

Internet Explorer 6 - Print Preview screenshots

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