1660875 - Text is fuzzy and unselectable, after printing to PDF with "Color mode: Black and white"

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1660857

(Core :: Print Preview, defect)

Description

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

Attachment: testcase 1

STR:

1. Ensure you have print.tab_modal.enabled = true in about:config
2. View attached testcase.
3. Print with Ctrl+P
4. In the "Color mode" dropdown, choose "Black & White"
5. Choose "Save to PDF" as your printer, and click "Save" at the bottom.
6. Open the resulting PDF, and try to select text in your PDF viewer. Try Ctrl+F "find" (or equivalent in your PDF viewer), to find some of the text.

ACTUAL RESULTS:
The text is blurry and un-selectable, and the "find" feature does not work. It seems the test has been rasterized to a (blurry) graphical result, and the PDF doesn't realize that it's got text in it.

EXPECTED RESULTS:
Selectable/findable text in the resulting PDF (ideally not blurry).

Comment 1

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

Attachment: print-to-PDF result (with black&white chosen)

Comment 2

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

Attachment: print-to-PDF result (with color chosen)

Comment 3

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

(Note: the gray border around the page content is also unexpected, and it's tracked in related bug 1660857.)

Comment 4

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

Looks like this may actually be fixed by a patch on bug 1660857. Duping for now, though we can un-dupe later if needed.