revPrintText/pageHeights broken in v2.8?

[Devin Asay]

On Apr 4, 2007, at 7:55 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:

> Sarah Reichelt wrote:
>> On 4/5/07, Richard Gaskin <ambassador at fourthworld.com> wrote:
>>> Bill Marriott wrote:
>>>
>>> > Richard,
>>> >
>>> > I just tried your example stack in Report #4601 and had exactly  
>>> the same
>>> > (apparently correct) result printing both off-screen and  
>>> hidden. I was able
>>> > to test with two drivers: Adobe PDF and HP C3180. I'm using  
>>> 2.8.0 build 370
>>> > on Windows.
>>>
>>> Seems like we're narrowing it down:  I tested on OS X 10.4.8.
>>>
>> I just tested your stack on OS X 10.4.9 and I get the bug too.
>> Off-screen works fine, hidden prints page 1 OK, but not the others.
>> (Tested using Print Preview only.)
>
> And a report just came through the support queue about footers not  
> printing on OS X, but they print okay on Windows (using  
> revPrintText). Wonder if it's related to this problem. They both  
> involve the bottom of the page.

This sounds like my report. I cross-referenced Richard's bug report  
because they seem related, but not identical. Bottom line is  
revPrintText is broken in several ways on OSX.

Devin

Devin Asay
Humanities Technology and Research Support Center
Brigham Young University