1907958 - Firefox's PDF viewer doesn't print highlighted regions that were added by manual editing (but it does if you save the file and then open that saved copy)

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox :: PDF Viewer, defect, P1)

Description

[justinmbrown2016]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:128.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/128.0

Steps to reproduce:

Open PDF
highlight text
print
text printed is not highlighted

Actual results:

The text was not highlighted when using firefox, but other programs and other machines printed highlighted text.

Expected results:

Text should be highlighted with the appropriate color, when edited in PDF and printed.

Comment 1

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Core::Printing: Output' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please correct in case you think the bot is wrong.

Comment 2

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert] (vacation until Jun 23)]

Attachment: sample PDF that can be used to test this bug

Comment 3

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert] (vacation until Jun 23)]

Thanks for the bug report! I can reproduce the issue, just using Print Preview (no printing is required).

Other sorts of edits -- added text/images and the "Draw" tool -- do show up in Print Preview, but highlighting does not.

However, if I save the edited PDF to a local file (using the "downarrow-into-folder" icon) and then view that saved file in Firefox and print-preview it), then the highlighting does show up.

Comment 4

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert] (vacation until Jun 23)]

Attachment: screencast showing bug (highlight missing when print-previewed directly, but present when saved and then print-previewed)

Comment 5

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert] (vacation until Jun 23)]

In the attached screencast:

• t=20s shows "actual results" - highlight missing in print-preview for an edited document.
• t=39s shows "expected results" - highlight is shown in print-preview for a saved copy of that edited document.

(Other edits, e.g. inserted text/drawing, show up in print-preview just fine.)

Comment 6

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The severity field is not set for this bug.
:calixte, could you have a look please?

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Comment 7

[BMO Github Automation]

Attachment: [mozilla/pdf.js] [Editor] Allow Float32Array for quadpoints in annotations (bug 1907958) (#18526)