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Print support page size preview feature

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Suvoraj
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How to setup page size while print? Currently using Firefox 41.0 and it does not allow preview with different page size. Without this feature printing is very difficult specially when page size is different.

Although it support page size change at printer dialogue box but without any preview and for this sometimes final print output is just waste of paper and ink.

Is there any solution because I want to make Firefox my default browser for everything web related.

How to setup page size while print? Currently using Firefox 41.0 and it does not allow preview with different page size. Without this feature printing is very difficult specially when page size is different. Although it support page size change at printer dialogue box but without any preview and for this sometimes final print output is just waste of paper and ink. Is there any solution because I want to make Firefox my default browser for everything web related.

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the-edmeister
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Have you read this? https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-print-web-pages-firefox

Or are you referring to paper size?

Suvoraj
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Yes paper size. Suppose my all printout is 100% then the calculation is A460%, Legal 36%, 4R (4inchX6inch) 3%, Letter size 1%. Thus it is extremely require to preview with different paper size.

the-edmeister
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Sorry, but Page Setup doesn't work in that manner. That is independent of the Paper Size selection made in the printer driver software.

Suppose my all printout is 100% then the calculation is A460%, Legal 36%, 4R (4inchX6inch) 3%, Letter size 1%. Thus it is extremely require to preview with different paper size.

That might work for single page printing, but a 2nd and subsequent pages wouldn't print properly, I would think.

A you have mentioned, Paper Size is set thru Properties in the "native print dialog", which is what you see when you click Print in the Print Preview window or use {Ctrl + P} to print directly from the keyboard. There is no way to go back to "Print Preview" after selecting a different size "paper" from the "native print dialog" box. The best you can do is to Print to File and if it isn't correct when you Preview it afterwards (for a 2nd 'go' at printing), try it again to paper.

IMO, this limitation exists due to Firefox being a cross-OS browser, which uses the same basic 'print core code' for Windows, MacOSX, and for Linux OS's. And the 'print core code' was inherited from Netscape when Mozilla was spun off as an open source project from Netscape in 1998/99 - the 'code' going back to 1995-96 when Netscape Navigator was first being built. I honestly feel that there is no one with Mozilla who understands the code in its entirety;, witness the number of Bugs that are filed after Mozilla attempts to 'enhance' any printing feature, most of which in turn never get fixed.

Also IMO based upon being a user since Aug 2002, Mozilla really needs to write a completely new 'print core' AND document that code properly so that 'new hires' can understand how it is / was intended to work, so it can be appended in the future with fewer new Bugs created with each change or 'enhancement'. But that ain't gonna happen - the "desktop" receives far fewer resources that would be needed for such massive project and it seems that the people who might be able to pull that off don't stick around long enough to follow it thru to release - they leave for "greener pastures" or a better position elsewhere, IMHO.