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Printer stylesheet broken -- formatting lost

 
Avatar Cassia Martin 2 posts

To Whom It May Concern:

The printer stylesheet is stealing my content! Can you tell it to stop?

Bug: Sequences of bold capitals three or more letters long work properly in the message view. However, when attempting to print out the message, they disappear.

Steps to replicate:
1.) Make a basecamp post like this:
2.) Put the following text in the basecamp post:
  • ABCD – a
  • ABC – b
  • AB – c
  • abcd – d
  • abc – e
    3.) Click the little printer icon in the upper right hand corner.
    4.) Observe that what you get looks like this: – a – b
    AB – c
    abcd – d
    abc – e

Time of bug:
I only noticed this happening with last week’s update. It looks like there is now tries to apply the “print mode” stylesheet anytime you try to print?

Workaround: If I go to View > Page Style > No Style in Firefox, I get a page that looks like garbage, but at least doesn’t lose any of my content.

Possible fix:
I looked at the page source generated by the print stylesheet, and suspect that if you take out “span class=”caps”” it will work properly.

Thanks for your help.

Cassia Martin
System Administrator
Alexander Street Press

 
Avatar richallum 589 posts

Also having some problems printing and have told support.

 
Avatar Ryan Singer Administrator 155 posts

Thanks for letting us know. We’re looking into it as soon as we can.

 
Avatar Ryan Singer Administrator 155 posts

Update: This has been fixed. We’ve also polished a few other rough edges on the print styles for messages. Thanks for the tip.

 
Avatar richallum 589 posts

Update: This has been fixed. We’ve also polished a few other rough edges on the print styles for messages. Thanks for the tip.

Hi Ryan – bullet points still not printing in FF 2.0

 
Avatar lakin 26 posts

Same issue – All formatting is lost when I print ANY page

 
Avatar richallum 589 posts

Ryan – can you come back on this please?

 
Avatar Ryan Singer Administrator 155 posts

Whoops looks like the fix for bullet points wasn’t deployed as I expected. I’ll post here again when the fix has been released. Thanks for your patience.

 
Avatar Ryan Singer Administrator 155 posts

Ok we’ve deployed the fix for printing bullet points. They should print properly now.

 
Avatar richallum 589 posts

Hi Ryan – thanks for that but we are getting a couple of weird errors specifically extra blank bullets being added and text immediately after a bullet being removed altogether. I can send you some examples if you let me know where.

 
Avatar Sarah Hatter Administrator 366 posts

We’re aware of some additional issues with printing formatted messages and lists. We hope to have this resolved soon.

If you need any further help, please send us a report.

 
Avatar Neil Caithness 65 posts

Sarah, as noted in several threads the printing issue with bullets and caps has not been fixed. Please could you let us know if there is a plan to address this.

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