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Status: Untriaged
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OS: Linux , Windows , Mac
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Type: Bug



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Print to PDF - extra blank page appear every second page in PDF

Reported by pisarev...@gmail.com, Apr 30 2017

Issue description

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/58.0.3029.81 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. Google Docs - open a file with more than 2 pages to print
2. Ctrl + P/ File - Print
3. See normal preview
4. Change Margins to Minimum

What is the expected behavior?
Margins changed, doc looks normally

What went wrong?
Blank pages are appearing in between doc on preview.

Did this work before? N/A 

Chrome version: 58.0.3029.81  Channel: stable
OS Version: ubuntu 16.04
Flash Version: 25.0.0.148

Based on the user issue: https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/chrome-ru/cU6BcDCGf9w;context-place=forum/chrome-ru
Was able to reproduce on my computer.

Searched Chromium bugs, but did not succeed to find the similar issue. Nevertheless some issues look connected.
 
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Comment 1 by kochi@chromium.org, May 1 2017

Components: Internals>Printing
Do you have a PDF viewer extension installed by any chance? When I tried this, I don't see any options to change the margins.
Labels: Needs-Feedback
@ thestig@chromium.org
Was able to reproduce it on Version 57.0.2987.133 (64-bit) on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.
Even in incognito.

Yes, my first debug attempt was to switch off all the extensions, but it did not help.
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Comment 5 by sheriffbot@chromium.org, May 3 2017

Cc: krajshree@chromium.org
Labels: -Needs-Feedback
Thank you for providing more feedback. Adding requester "krajshree@chromium.org" to the cc list and removing "Needs-Feedback" label.

For more details visit https://www.chromium.org/issue-tracking/autotriage - Your friendly Sheriffbot
Cc: jbanavatu@chromium.org
Labels: M-60 OS-Mac OS-Windows
Status: Untriaged (was: Unconfirmed)
Tested this issue on Windows-10,Mac-10.12.3 and Ubuntu-16.04 using reported chrome stable version #58.0.3029.81 and latest dev #60.0.3093.0. Able to repro this issue with following steps:

1. Google Docs - open a file with more than 2 pages to print
2. Ctrl + P/ File - Print
3. See normal preview
4. Change Margins to Minimum

This is a non regression issue as it is observed from M48 old builds.

Hence, marking it as untriaged to get more inputs from dev team.

Thanks...!!
Google Docs has its own page layout controls via File -> Page Setup. I would suggest adjust that and avoid adjusting the controls in Chrome's print preview.

Previously, Google Docs always generated a PDF for printing. One can scale the PDF, but the layout remains fixed. There are no margin controls when print previewing PDFs.

Now Google Docs appears to be using HTML/CSS to control the page size and layout. i.e. it is printing a webpage instead. The layout is still fixed, so changing the margins can cause layout issues like this. Chrome can adjust the margins for webpages, so we try to give users the power to do so. Unfortunately it is a bit confusing in this case.
Same as  bug 626010 ?
 Issue 626010  has been merged into this issue.

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