1544803 - Printing to PDF using Microsoft PDF Printer produces large output file with rasterized / unselectable text

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Core :: Printing: Output, defect, P3)

Description

[trashcan4u]

Attachment: printed_from_edge.pdf

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:66.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/66.0

Steps to reproduce:

I open a web page (for example https://www.arbetsformedlingen.se/For-arbetssokande/Platsbanken/annonser/8253215 ) and print it in Windows 10.
I use Microsoft Print to PDF
Check the size and contents of the resulting PDF.

Open same web page (https://www.arbetsformedlingen.se/For-arbetssokande/Platsbanken/annonser/8253215 ) using Microsoft Edge browser and print.
Use Microsoft Print to PDF
Check the size and contents of resulting PDF.

Actual results:

8 out of 10 pages are printed as image and result sizes like 400+kb using Firefox.
Furthermore, since the page is printed as image. It is impossible to copy/paste text from it.

However Microsoft Edge is capable of printing same pages as text. The file sizes range 30-40kb and it is possible to copy/paste text from them.

Therefore I always need to open Microsoft Edge to print web pages which is annoying...

Expected results:

Firefox should have managed to print pages as text also without inflating the resulting PDF size by using images.

Comment 1

[trashcan4u]

Attachment: printed_from_firefox.pdf

Comment 2

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

This sounds similar to bug 1487467 and bug 1219267.