I've managed to reproduce the issue where the "Save to PDF" printer prints to by default physical printer. If the "global" pref `print.print_to_file` is set to `false`, then when I first print to the "Save to PDF" printer its `nsIPrintSettings` object picks up that value and causes the print to go to the wrong place. Worse still, I then end up with the pref `print.printer_Mozilla_Save_to_PDF.print_to_file` also set to `false` after that first print to the "Save to PDF" printer. That means that if I remove the "global" pref `print.print_to_file` I still have the misbehavior. I have to remove both `print.print_to_file` and `print.printer_Mozilla_Save_to_PDF.print_to_file` to fix things.
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I've managed to reproduce the issue where the "Save to PDF" printer prints to my default physical printer. If the "global" pref `print.print_to_file` is set to `false`, then when I first print to the "Save to PDF" printer its `nsIPrintSettings` object picks up that value and causes the print to go to the wrong place. Worse still, I then end up with the pref `print.printer_Mozilla_Save_to_PDF.print_to_file` also set to `false` after that first print to the "Save to PDF" printer. That means that if I remove the "global" pref `print.print_to_file` I still have the misbehavior. I have to remove both `print.print_to_file` and `print.printer_Mozilla_Save_to_PDF.print_to_file` to fix things.