Printing from 27.2.0 is very small
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Printing from 27.2.0 is very small
When I attempt to print any web page from within Pale Moon 27.2.0 the so-called page being printed is incredibly small and occupies maybe 5% of the actual page on a printer. Somehow the Pale Moon printing function is broken for me, which makes printing from a web page under Pale Moon pretty worthless right now. Somehow Pale Moon's latest update under Windows has broken the Print functionality. Miniscule prints of web page data cannot be correct.
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Re: Printing from 27.2.0 is very small
Good day:
It seems that I have no issue in PM 64. Have you tried an new user profile or possibly a reinstall of PM?
It seems that I have no issue in PM 64. Have you tried an new user profile or possibly a reinstall of PM?
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Re: Printing from 27.2.0 is very small
I am not going to create a new profile from scratch and lose all my settings and my links. Reinstalling PM again can hardly make any difference.Gandalfdjh wrote:Good day:
It seems that I have no issue in PM 64. Have you tried an new user profile or possibly a reinstall of PM?
Here is more information:
1) The Print Preview and Print functionality shows and prints very tiny when running Pale Moon on my 27" wide screen monitor, but shows and prints correctly from my older 21" monitor.
2) Mozilla Firefox Print Preview and Print functionality shows and prints correctly when running Firefox on both my 27" monitor and my older 21" monitor.
3) Everything works correctly on my laptop 17" monitor.
I do not know what the problem is but there is most probably a bug in PM when running on widescreen monitors and having to calculate the size of the print image from the size of the web page being displayed by the widescreen monitor.
Re: Printing from 27.2.0 is very small
Creating a new profile will not cause you to lose your settings and links. They will all still be in your old profile, which will be untouched by the new profile. Good instructions for how to do so (and to restart in safe mode, to attempt to eliminate any extensions being the culprit) are here:eldiener wrote:I am not going to create a new profile from scratch and lose all my settings and my links
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Re: Printing from 27.2.0 is very small
I have tested the print on different sizes of screen, regular and wide screen. No issues. Win 10 PM 64 bit.eldiener wrote:I do not know what the problem is but there is most probably a bug in PM when running on widescreen monitors and having to calculate the size of the print image from the size of the web page being displayed by the widescreen monitor.
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Re: Printing from 27.2.0 is very small
Attached are screenshots for PaleMoon and Firefox print previews of the top of this message on the forum. You can see the difference in what is shown. Maybe this will help in solving my problem.Gandalfdjh wrote:I have tested the print on different sizes of screen, regular and wide screen. No issues. Win 10 PM 64 bit.eldiener wrote:I do not know what the problem is but there is most probably a bug in PM when running on widescreen monitors and having to calculate the size of the print image from the size of the web page being displayed by the widescreen monitor.
Re: Printing from 27.2.0 is very small
eldiener wrote:Attached are screenshots for PaleMoon and Firefox print previews of the top of this message on the forum. You can see the difference in what is shown.
Or even restarting in safe mode, just to rule out the possibility that an extension is causing this?Gandalfdjh wrote:Have you tried an new user profile or possibly a reinstall of PM?
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Re: Printing from 27.2.0 is very small
I disabled all my plugins but the problem persisted.Nigaikaze wrote:eldiener wrote:Attached are screenshots for PaleMoon and Firefox print previews of the top of this message on the forum. You can see the difference in what is shown.Or even restarting in safe mode, just to rule out the possibility that an extension is causing this?Gandalfdjh wrote:Have you tried an new user profile or possibly a reinstall of PM?
I temporarily tried another new profile and the problem went away.
How I am to determine what it is in my current profile that is causing the problem I do not know. Is there a way of saving all my bookmarks for the current profile and then switching to the new profile and restoring those bookmarks ? What about my applications ? I just do not want to have to switch to a new profile and then recreate everything all over again which I have in Pale Moon.
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Re: Printing from 27.2.0 is very small
Have you carefully checked your Page Setup and printer settings?
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Re: Printing from 27.2.0 is very small
The problem I am seeing is that the printer being used by Pale Moon in my old profile has Paper Size: User Defined.. in its Properties while the actual settings for that printer under Windows8.1 has Paper Size Legal in its Printer Properties. In fact Pale Moon is not picking up my printer's default settings at all in my old profile while it is in my new profile. If I change the Printer Properties to correctly specify the same as those under Windows8.1 my print out is of the correct size, but going back to the Pale Moon Print... dialog once again shows my printer's properties as User Defined... and not corresponding to my Windows8.1 default at all.back2themoon wrote:Have you carefully checked your Page Setup and printer settings?
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Re: Printing from 27.2.0 is very small
Thus if the new profile works, you might look at this link: viewtopic.php?f=15&t=14800&p=106653&hil ... up#p106653
eldiener wrote:I temporarily tried another new profile and the problem went away.
How I am to determine what it is in my current profile that is causing the problem I do not know. Is there a way of saving all my bookmarks for the current profile and then switching to the new profile and restoring those bookmarks ? What about my applications ? I just do not want to have to switch to a new profile and then recreate everything all over again which I have in Pale Moon.
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Re: Printing from 27.2.0 is very small
You can try resetting the printer's settings to its defaults (you might have such an option in the printer's settings), or even uninstall and re-install the printer. Also: Reset printer setting
Safe Mode / clean profile info: Help/Restart in Safe Mode
Information to include when asking for support - How to apply user agent overrides
How to auto-fill passwords
Windows 10 Pro x64
Information to include when asking for support - How to apply user agent overrides
How to auto-fill passwords
Windows 10 Pro x64
Re: Printing from 27.2.0 is very small
This was eventually solved by applying item number 2 from viewtopic.php?f=3&t=216. Thanks to everyone who offered help with this problem.