Content in @bottom is cut off about weasyprint HOT 6 CLOSED

I don’t understand, could you give an example?

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If I use @page { size: A4; @bottom-left { content: url(someimage)}}

the size of the footer is not included and you get a warped page that when you try to print will scale down to A4 resulting in a lot of white space. If you don't scale fit-to-page the footer disappears altogether.

I've had some success specifying exact dimensions (eg size: 8.5in 11in;) This PDF looks fine when renderered and printed, but when printing fit-to-page you still get the same whitespace issues, where I'd expect them to look identical.

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Well, this is as expected by the spec: http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-page/

The page margin is determined by the margin-* properties in @page and default to about 2cm. If you put too much content in a page-margin box, it overflows the page. You can change the margin like this:

@page { margin-bottom: 200px }

Another point is that, with content: url(…), the image always gets its intrinsic size. Using a background image instead and background-size could work around that.

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But the image is fully visible so why scale?

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Again I’m not sure what you’re talking about: scaling what? Please give more context.

In WeasyPrint, the page size in the PDF file is always exactly what you specify with @page { size: … } (and defaults to A4). Similarly for the page margins. If you have too much content for one page it will go on the next page or, if that is not possible for some reason, it will overflow the page.

I don’t know what "fit-to-page" is, but I can only assume that you are printing a PDF file to paper, and the PDF reader allows you to choose how to format stuff. I guess that "fit-to-page" means scaling so that everything (even what overflowed the virtual PDF page box) fits on the sheet of paper. This is out of scope for WeasyPrint. I have no control over what you do in a PDF reader.

Now, I was suggesting using background-size because the default resolution for images is 96dpi. For printing you might want to use a higher resolution. (Unless it’s SVG of course.)

Does that help?
You filed this as a bug report. Do you think there is a bug in WeasyPrint? What is the incorrect behavior, on which input, and what should it do instead?

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Closing in absence of feedback. Please re-open or open a new issue as needed.

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