<![CDATA[Print to a PDF printer results in unselectable text and garbled fonts in PDF]]>Opera 26 has issues with PDF print output.
The created PDF has unselectable text and strange font display.
Screenshot

I'm using the PDF Printer from PDFCreator from pdfforge.
Opera 12 and Firefox works fine in creation of PDF.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/topic/6782/print-to-a-pdf-printer-results-in-unselectable-text-and-garbled-fonts-in-pdfRSS for NodeTue, 14 Jul 2026 09:28:15 GMTMon, 01 Dec 2014 09:49:54 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Print to a PDF printer results in unselectable text and garbled fonts in PDF on Thu, 04 Dec 2014 09:09:16 GMT]]>

@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:

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/60407https://forums.opera.com/post/60407Thu, 04 Dec 2014 09:09:16 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Print to a PDF printer results in unselectable text and garbled fonts in PDF on Wed, 03 Dec 2014 22:08:41 GMT]]>

@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

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/60326https://forums.opera.com/post/60326Wed, 03 Dec 2014 22:08:41 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Print to a PDF printer results in unselectable text and garbled fonts in PDF on Wed, 03 Dec 2014 21:14:26 GMT]]>

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

You're welcome. 🙂

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/60321https://forums.opera.com/post/60321Wed, 03 Dec 2014 21:14:26 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Print to a PDF printer results in unselectable text and garbled fonts in PDF on Wed, 03 Dec 2014 17:23:38 GMT]]>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 ❤

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/60284https://forums.opera.com/post/60284Wed, 03 Dec 2014 17:23:38 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Print to a PDF printer results in unselectable text and garbled fonts in PDF on Tue, 02 Dec 2014 23:58:03 GMT]]>You're welcome 🙂

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/60186https://forums.opera.com/post/60186Tue, 02 Dec 2014 23:58:03 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Print to a PDF printer results in unselectable text and garbled fonts in PDF on Tue, 02 Dec 2014 22:39:22 GMT]]>That did it. Thanks.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/60172https://forums.opera.com/post/60172Tue, 02 Dec 2014 22:39:22 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Print to a PDF printer results in unselectable text and garbled fonts in PDF on Tue, 02 Dec 2014 11:25:39 GMT]]>@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:

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/60069https://forums.opera.com/post/60069Tue, 02 Dec 2014 11:25:39 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Print to a PDF printer results in unselectable text and garbled fonts in PDF on Tue, 02 Dec 2014 10:51:57 GMT]]>You do not need a PDF viewer extension!
Open opera://plugins/ and activate Chrome PDF Viewer

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/60066https://forums.opera.com/post/60066Tue, 02 Dec 2014 10:51:57 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Print to a PDF printer results in unselectable text and garbled fonts in PDF on Tue, 24 Oct 2017 09:30:44 GMT]]>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.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/60059https://forums.opera.com/post/60059Tue, 24 Oct 2017 09:30:44 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Print to a PDF printer results in unselectable text and garbled fonts in PDF on Tue, 02 Dec 2014 08:13:17 GMT]]>Save as PDF works in Opera 26 Stable.

Ctrl P
Destination Change...
Save as PDF

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/60051https://forums.opera.com/post/60051Tue, 02 Dec 2014 08:13:17 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Print to a PDF printer results in unselectable text and garbled fonts in PDF on Tue, 02 Dec 2014 03:57:53 GMT]]>

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.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/60039https://forums.opera.com/post/60039Tue, 02 Dec 2014 03:57:53 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Print to a PDF printer results in unselectable text and garbled fonts in PDF on Mon, 01 Dec 2014 23:19:22 GMT]]>

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.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/60018https://forums.opera.com/post/60018Mon, 01 Dec 2014 23:19:22 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Print to a PDF printer results in unselectable text and garbled fonts in PDF on Mon, 01 Dec 2014 18:22:33 GMT]]>Immer gerne 🆙

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/59981https://forums.opera.com/post/59981Mon, 01 Dec 2014 18:22:33 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Print to a PDF printer results in unselectable text and garbled fonts in PDF on Mon, 01 Dec 2014 15:58:09 GMT]]>@falloutboy09

btw, how did u manage to show you picture in the posting??

Screenshot and upload to imgur and embedding image with Markdown ![](URLTOIMAGE) ; see http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax#img

@christoph142 Oh yes, tht creates PDF which text is selectable and non-garbled 🙂 Thanks for the Workaround.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/59973https://forums.opera.com/post/59973Mon, 01 Dec 2014 15:58:09 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Print to a PDF printer results in unselectable text and garbled fonts in PDF on Mon, 01 Dec 2014 13:18:27 GMT]]>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:

  1. Press Ctrl+P or choose "Print..." in OMenu to open print preview
  2. click "Change..." in the destination field
  3. Choose "Save as PDF"
]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/59946https://forums.opera.com/post/59946Mon, 01 Dec 2014 13:18:27 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Print to a PDF printer results in unselectable text and garbled fonts in PDF on Mon, 01 Dec 2014 13:04:58 GMT]]>I just tried it too.
Opera 25.0.1614.50 printing with PDFcreator 1.7.3 and opening in Acrobat 9.5.5 Pro Extended

Yes the text is not selectable but for me, atleast the font looks ok.
http://www.mysoldier.de/fileadmin/userstorages/falloutboy84/BugReport/Opera_25/pdf-print.PNG

btw, how did u manage to show you picture in the posting??

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/59944https://forums.opera.com/post/59944Mon, 01 Dec 2014 13:04:58 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Print to a PDF printer results in unselectable text and garbled fonts in PDF on Mon, 01 Dec 2014 11:30:37 GMT]]>Use a different PDF plugin. I have the same problem with the FoxIt PDF plugin in Opera and Chrome but the Chrome plugin works fine in both Opera and Chrome.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/59931https://forums.opera.com/post/59931Mon, 01 Dec 2014 11:30:37 GMT