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    Print to a PDF printer results in unselectable text and garbled fonts in PDF

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    • ho72
      ho72 last edited by

      You can work around this issue easily:
      Opera does have "Save as PDF"-functionality built-in so you don't even need PDFCreator or alike:

      Press Ctrl+P or choose "Print..." in OMenu to open print preview
      click "Change..." in the destination field
      Choose "Save as PDF"

      Not happening here. Save as pdf is not an option under Print nor does it appear under Save As.

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      • leocg
        leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by

        Not happening here. Save as pdf is not an option under Print nor does it appear under Save As.

        Which version of Opera? Afaik this option is available in 27+ only.

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        • Deleted User
          Deleted User last edited by

          Save as PDF works in Opera 26 Stable.

          Ctrl P
          Destination Change...
          Save as PDF

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          • ho72
            ho72 last edited by admin

            As I pointed out in my thread that was closed,

            https://forums.opera.com/topic/6777/save-as-pdf-issues/3

            I'm using Opera 25. Will look for Opera 26.

            EDIT: Opera 26 now installed, get this message: Opera does not include the PDF viewer which is required for print preview to function.

            Found a PDF viewer extension but installing it made no difference.

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            • Deleted User
              Deleted User last edited by

              You do not need a PDF viewer extension!
              Open opera://plugins/ and activate Chrome PDF Viewer

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              • christoph142
                christoph142 last edited by

                @ho72 You can uninstall the PDF viewer extension. You don't need it.
                You're suffering from a little bug (that's fixed already, but didn't get distributed yet).
                Turn off Opera Turbo for the time being to get rid of this error :ninja:

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                • ho72
                  ho72 last edited by

                  That did it. Thanks.

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                  • christoph142
                    christoph142 last edited by

                    You're welcome 🙂

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                    • falloutboy09
                      falloutboy09 last edited by

                      Uuuhhh that print function looks "purdy" and the save as pdf may really come in handy 🙂
                      have to check it out

                      and thx for the info on how to work better with this forum 🙂 And thanks to whoever changed my posting and made that image visible ❤

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                      • linuxmint7
                        linuxmint7 last edited by

                        And thanks to whoever changed my posting and made that image visible ❤

                        You're welcome. 🙂

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                        • ho72
                          ho72 last edited by

                          @ho72 You can turn Turbo back on. Today's update should have fixed your printing issue

                          No, it did not. Version info: 26.0.1656.32 - Opera is up to date

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                          • christoph142
                            christoph142 last edited by

                            @ho72 You can turn Turbo back on. Today's update should have fixed your printing issue

                            No, it did not. Version info: 26.0.1656.32 - Opera is up to date

                            Woops, sorry, my bad.
                            Next update :wait:

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