SVG images with <embed> and <object> do not print

• Component: Printing
• Status: RESOLVED CONFIGURATION CHANGED

[Christopher Schultz]

Filing with webkit as nobody at Google Chrome seems to be responding:
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=71419

Chrome Version       : 8.0.552.237 (Official Build 70801)
URLs (if applicable) : http://www.christopherschultz.net/temp/SVG_test.html

Other browsers tested:
Add OK or FAIL after other browsers where you have tested this issue:
   Chrome 8/9/10/11/12/13: Printing problems as described in this bug report
     Safari 5: Display problems with <img>, <embed>, and <object>, but all images are visible
  Firefox 3.x: OK (no <img> support)
  Firefox 4.x: OK
       IE 7/8: FAIL, but not expected to work
       MSIE 9: OK
     Opera 10: Display problems with <img> and <object>, <embed> works

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Load the page indicated above
2. Print to a PDF

What is the expected result?
All 4 images are visible

What happens instead?
Neither the <object> nor the <embed> SVG images are displayed at all. Also, the <img> rendering is compressed horizontally (aspect ratio is skewed).

Please provide any additional information below. Attach a screenshot if
possible.
1. I'm using PDFCreator 1.0.2 to generate the PDF files rather than printing to actual paper.
2. This is a test adapted from W3C's SVG test to put both <object> and <embed> on the same page, as well as add an <img> attempt. The W3C tests can be found here (http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/Test/20080912/htmlObjectHarness/index.html) for the <object> tag: I randomly chose "shapes-circle-01-t" as the test to adapt.

I'm attaching a screenshot of Chrome's rendering of this page in regular "view" mode (only problem is incorrect <img> aspect ratio) as well as the resulting PDF (where neither the <object> nor <embed> images are displayed).

(Please see Google Chrome's bug tracker for the PDF attachments. Sorry for any inconvenience this causes).

[Christopher Schultz]

Google Chrome 13 adds a print-preview which exhibits this (non-printing) behavior so I'm sure it's not part of the print-to-PDF process at this point.

I'd even be happy if someone would show me that my SVG is broken that /that/ is the real problem. Given that MSIE and FF both display and print as expected (and how often do THEY ever agree on anything?), I suspect this is a problem in WebKit SVG/Print components.

[Christopher Schultz]

When using the nightly build from 2011-08-02, when I print-preview the test page, the bottom 2 images are shifted to the right and truncated.

[Ahmad Saleem]

Created attachment 460341 [details]
Safari 15.5 prints page fine

I am not able to reproduce this bug in Safari 15.5 on macOS 12.4 since the PDF does show all <embed> and <object> SVG as in attached one.

[Radar WebKit Bug Importer]

<rdar://problem/95500910>

[Ryosuke Niwa]

Yeah, can't reproduce either.

[Christopher Schultz]

Yes, this was fixed sometime around 2015. (Please see the Chromium bug for /slightly/ more information.)

It's not at all clear whether there was a fix in webkit, webkit2, or elsewhere... the bug was simply declared "fixed" back in 2015 and I was able to confirm for both Chrome and Safari at the time.