Bug 156300 - Printing does not respect multi-column layouts
Summary: Printing does not respect multi-column layouts
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 15546
Alias: None
Product: WebKit
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Printing (show other bugs)
Version: Safari 9
Hardware: Mac OS X 10.11
: P2 Normal
Assignee: Nobody
URL:
Keywords: InRadar
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2016-04-06 11:45 PDT by Paul Furbacher
Modified: 2021-03-25 16:41 PDT (History)
7 users (show)

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HTML document which is a 2-column document that does not print correctly in Safari 9.1. (15.69 KB, text/html)
2016-04-06 11:45 PDT, Paul Furbacher
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Safari's (incorrect, single-column) output when choosing "Save as PDF..." for the 2-column document (26.39 KB, application/pdf)
2016-04-06 11:48 PDT, Paul Furbacher
no flags Details
Chrome's correct output for "Save as PDF..." (56.54 KB, application/pdf)
2016-04-06 11:49 PDT, Paul Furbacher
no flags Details
Firefox's correct (with respect to column count) output for "Save as PDF..." (39.75 KB, application/pdf)
2016-04-06 11:50 PDT, Paul Furbacher
no flags Details

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Description Paul Furbacher 2016-04-06 11:45:27 PDT
Created attachment 275793 [details]
HTML document which is a 2-column document that does not print correctly in Safari 9.1.

When I go to print a multi-column page (in this particular case, a 2-column document), the Print Preview shows only one column. If I choose either "Open in PDF Preview", or "Save as PDF..." [on OS X 10.11, Safari version: 9.1 (11601.5.17.1)], the document is formatted as a single-column (1-column) document. 

In contrast, Chrome [Version 49.0.2623.110 (64-bit)] and Firefox (Version 42.0) get this right. The resulting preview and PDF is a 2-column document with correct column breaking (column flow) and correct page breaks when there is no room for another item in the second column of a page.

Attached are the HTML source, and "Save as PDF..." output from the cited versions of Safari, Chrome, and Firefox. (It looks as though I'll need to attach the comparative outputs in subsequent comments.)
Comment 1 Paul Furbacher 2016-04-06 11:48:58 PDT
Created attachment 275795 [details]
Safari's (incorrect, single-column) output when choosing "Save as PDF..." for the 2-column document
Comment 2 Paul Furbacher 2016-04-06 11:49:31 PDT
Created attachment 275796 [details]
Chrome's correct output for "Save as PDF..."
Comment 3 Paul Furbacher 2016-04-06 11:50:37 PDT
Created attachment 275797 [details]
Firefox's correct (with respect to column count) output for "Save as PDF..."
Comment 4 Paul Furbacher 2016-04-06 11:54:10 PDT
Just a typo correction:

I wrote "Open in PDF Preview" 

when I meant "Open PDF in Preview".
Comment 5 Radar WebKit Bug Importer 2016-04-06 21:34:35 PDT
<rdar://problem/25594228>
Comment 6 Ian Thomas (thelem) 2017-03-13 05:05:09 PDT
Duplicate of https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15546
Comment 7 Sam Sneddon [:gsnedders] 2021-03-25 16:41:05 PDT

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 15546 ***