It appears that Firefox does not support the printing of transparent elements. However, I've run into trouble where a PNG image, with black text over a transparent background, prints out black because that's what Firefox picks to fill in for the transparent pixels.
Does anyone know how to reliably convert images to a format where their background will print white if transparency is not supported?
Firefox printing transparency
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Seems unlikely.
Anyway, if you want to see this effect in action, try printing this image (use PDF printer or something to save ink):
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=112972
Anyway, if you want to see this effect in action, try printing this image (use PDF printer or something to save ink):
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=112972
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I could be nasty and say something about using Opera.
I just tried it with Opera and it printed just fine. Also printed out a page that used PNG overlays with transparencies and the images were printed through the transparent areas of the PNG.
So if you need that ability you could try using Opera 9.10.
So if you need that ability you could try using Opera 9.10.
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