Bug 8824 – SVG: print any page

• Status: RESOLVED
• Resolution: FIXED
• Component: SVG

[jay]

It should be possible to print any SVG page, as per HTML.

One application that can print, and save as SVG is Apple's Sketch demo application from ObjectiveC 

also ASV

[Mark Rowe (bdash)]

Attempting to print preview the URL provided results in Preview displaying "File error.", "Couldn't open the file.".  A quick look through the PDF that is generated shows it looks roughly like a PDF document, so the contents of it are likely to be the issue.

[Eric Seidel (no email)]

Looking at the console log, this occurs because we're holding on to a CGContext too long.

[Eric Seidel (no email)]

This is the log I see:

Warning: The printing graphics context is being released by the printing system but is retained by the drawing client. This usually produces damaged PDF documents!

I expect this is due to KCanvasRenderingDeviceContextQuartz.

I also see the whole SVG repainting itself twice during the print, which surprises me.

[Eric Seidel (no email)]

This is probably fixed by bug 10648

[jay]

re #4

Eric this is almost certainly not fixed. as well as the URI  above I checked a simple SVG: http://bugzilla.opendarwin.org/attachment.cgi?id=8239

in both cases print preview dialogue: "file error couldn't open the file OK"
and trying again later opened a blank pdf document

[Eric Seidel (no email)]

Fixed by 10648.

[jay]

eric, macdome please explain why this is fixed?

the latest nightly is not printing either of the svgs in the 2 URIs given

10383 is not showing as fixed, yet this bug is apparently dependent on it...


cheers

[jay]

Amazing, congratulations and thanks, I've already filed a style bug, and will try to file a few more print bugs assuming they're present ~:"