1219267 - Printing an html page with bullzip (PDF printer) creates a non text selectable PDF

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Core :: Printing: Output, defect)

Description

[Aquila]

Attachment: Enter A Bug.pdf

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:41.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/41.0
Build ID: 20151014143721

Steps to reproduce:

I print some times html pages, like booking confirmations, to pdf with bullzip (http://www.bullzip.com/), which is a pdf printer driver.


Actual results:

The text in the resulting pdf can not be selected, it seems to be a picture. If I use another browser like IE or chrome, the resulting pdf has selectable text. The file size is also different, the resulting pdf file with firefox is 10 times bigger than with IE or chrome.


Expected results:

A pdf file with selectable text and same size like IE or chrome. It's quite annoying to have to switch browser to print an html page to pdf.

Comment 1

[Brendan Dahl [:bdahl]]

This is an issue with pdf generation not, pdf viewing.

Comment 2

[jscher2000]

Firefox isn't aware that the print output is being captured by a PDF printer driver, so BullZip gets what printers get.

Firefox usually rasterizes areas of the page that use WebFonts, which was filed as Bug 1343882 "Text using WOFF2 font is printed as image"

There could be other reasons, but that one certainly affects a lot of sites. One way to rule out fonts as the cause would be to use the second button in my extension to replace them with common built-in fonts and see whether you still get an image PDF: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/printable-the-print-doctor/