This has been an issue for a long time. I’ve been trying to avoid Chromium based browsers, but Firefox seems to be unable to print a lot of web pages without cutting off the content between pages. This is Firefox specific, as it doesn’t happen with Chromium browsers. It’s really a pain in the ass when I need to print something I have to open another browser and print it from there. I see tons of complaints about this online going back for years. I just spent the past two hours trying (unsuccessfully) to print a recipe correctly. I eventually gave up, opened Edge and printed from there. The current state of web browsers is dogshit. It’s either give up all of your privacy or use broken stuff. Neither is good.

    • 80386SX@lemmy.ml
      5·
      1 year ago

      Printing this page as PDF, set page size to A4 , scaling 100% ( default ) https://www.economist.com/leaders/2023/09/07/chinas-belt-and-road-initiative-will-keep-testing-the-west

      First bar graph is split across page 2 & 3.

      Pick any article from the economist, which has graphs or charts and it will happen , same with ft.com, Bloomberg.

      The website is responsible for providing a print layout, but the browser should be smarter and assume that the website was made by obstinate toddlers.

      Prints fine on Chromium & Edge. The inferior browsers move the “image” so it does not span pages.

      Before anyone gets upset , my default browser on all devices is Firefox.

    • watson387@sopuli.xyzOP
      41·
      1 year ago

      Well, I didn’t post “steps to reproduce” because I’m not doing anything special. Open the menu, click print, click print in the print modal window. I expect that I get a printed page, which I do, but Firefox doesn’t crop to the margins. The bottom margin is whited out, but it’s like parts of the page are hidden behind it so between every page there is missing text. It’s not my printer because the same happens when I try to print to pdf, and I also use Firefox at work on a different machine with different printers and get the same result. I’m not at my computer at the moment to post an example page.

      • DogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        10·
        1 year ago

        I’m genuinely sorry but I can’t reproduce the effects you’re describing. I generate pdfs from Firefox all the time and have never encountered an issue like this.

        That’s why describing how to reproduce is important.

        Could there be an addon you have which is causing this problem? That would explain why it happens for you on different machines.

  • makeasnek@lemmy.ml
    4·
    1 year ago

    Use the screenshot tool Firefox comes with to screenshot the entire page, then print the screenshot. That’s what I do.

  • bcbrz@lemmy.ml
    3·
    1 year ago

    Firefox printing is painful. Didn’t respect grayscale setting for PDFs, fixed for a few months, back to doing it again.

    • rambos@lemm.ee
      3·
      1 year ago

      Or just print screen right? Joking, but you could just save txt document then. Doesnt help if you care about formating and if you have content that is not just a text.

      I had the same problem as OP together with ignoring grayscale settings, but its been a while since last time I tried that