637946 - Error printing with PDF files

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 422253

(Core :: Printing: Output, defect)

Description

[Luis Blanco]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:2.0b12) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0b12
Build Identifier: 40b12

In some circunstances, PDF printer produces output files with strange size and spacing characters

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install Adobe PDF printer or "Print to PDF extension"
2. Print any page (even about:home) with Adobe PDF printer or "Print to PDF extension". You obtain a normal output.
3. Restart firefox.
4. Repeat step 2. You obtain a garbaged, ilegible text output. 
5. Make printer preview. You obtain a correct printing.
6. Go to about:config and reset print.print_printer
7. Restart firefox.
8. Repeat step 2. You obtain a correct output.
Actual Results:  
Garbaged, legible text in PDF output.

Expected Results:  
Normal, legible, correct characters PDF output.

The key of the problem seems to be: if print.print_printer value equals "Adobe PDF" output is wrong, if it is empty (or the key doesn't appear) output is normal.

Comment 1

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

Looks like a duplicate of Bug 422253 (which itself is a duplicate of a more general bug).