Embedded PDF object prints blank page

[SilverLining]

I have embedded a PDF (one page) in an object to display it in a page.

<object data="http://www.example.com/test.pdf" type="application/pdf" width="1000px" height="1000px" />

Printing this page uncovers a few quirks:

1. Firefox prints one page blank and a second page with illegible text (Print Preview displays two blank pages)
2. Chrome prints a blank page
3. IE prints a perfect page (bit of a suprise)

When object width & height was set to 100%, it did not display in Firefox, so I changed this to 1000px, but this is not ideal.

Any suggestions as to what the best fix or workaround is for the print issues and getting object displayed in Firefox when setting width and height to 100% ?

I added below CSS to check that the inheritance was not causing the div to collapse:

body { width: 100%; height: 100%; }

Please let me know if I should provide more code.

Thanks

(a simple search on WebmasterWorld did not answer my question)

[bill]

Is this happening just on your machine, or have you tried multiple setups? My first guess was that it was a problem with the Adobe plug-in (or whatever plug-in you're using) for PDF files.

[SilverLining]

Hi bill. My colleague had the same problem when printing this page. I have Adobe Reader 9.2.0 installed. Will see whether an update to Adobe Reader 9.3 fixes this. Thanks.

[SilverLining]

Hi bill. I updated to Adobe Reader 9.3.0 and the printing problem persists In Firefox (prints the page at about 75%). I'm on Windows 7 and haven't tested this on other Operating Systems. Any other ideas?

[tedster]

Are the problematic parts of this PDF images (even images of text) or stright text? Sometimes images can be problematic.

[SilverLining]

Update: It's actually Adobe reader version 9.3.2 (even though the setup window displays 9.3)

Tedster, the whole PDF is smaller than what it should be and so everything looks distorted; images and text. I think it's possibly scaling it because of the 1000x1000 pixels I set as the object properties. When clicking the print icon from within Acrobat it prints perfectly.

[tedster]

Sounds like you've got it, then.