Firefox 29 bug - browser PDF viewer prints blank pages

[John Hupp]

Ben Kaduk on the Ubuntu users list wrote:

I can't seem to find any substantial amount of complaining (or really, 
any traffic at all) about this on the forums, bug tracker, or mailing 
lists, which is very confusing to me, but this firefox update appears to 
have broken printing PDFs from the in-browser pdf.js viewer.  Most of 
our systems here are running the 12.04 LTS (precise), but I think I 
could reproduce the failure on 14.04 (trusty) as well.  Even a simple 
"print to file" is sufficient to display the failure; the output is 
entirely blank. (We see a lot of blank pages in the output trays of the 
printers in our computer labs.)

I filed https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/1315020 
for tracking in Ubuntu, but the real action appears to be on the mozilla 
bug, https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1003707 .

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Needless to say, this bug is also active under Lubuntu.  At a very quick 
glance, it seems that it may be taken care of in Firefox 30.

The workaround is to download the PDF, open that in the standalone 
viewer and print.
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