• Reported by Andreas

A couple of weeks ago, I posted about a CSS snippet tricking browsers into printing background images, something most of them don't do by default. That's all good, but there was one problem: a few WG readers pointed out that, although Firefox' print preview displays the image (= a list-style-image) correctly, its print output is less satisfactory - list-style-images are printed way too small. I had hoped to solve the problem by assigning different PPI values to the image, by editing its EXIF data, or by adding some CSS rules - alas, nothing works.

Poking around in the bugzilla database, I found bug 133490 "resolution of printed list-style-image images is wrong", which describes exactly the problem we're dealing with here. Apparently the problem has been around since, ahem, March 2002.

So, WG readers, if you want to be able to use my background printing technique on all browsers (or if you just think that Firefox should print list-style-images correctly), vote for bug 133490 so it gets fixed before this year's 2.0 release. Spread the word!