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

[Deleted User]

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Opera 26 has issues with PDF print output.
The created PDF has unselectable text and strange font display.

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

[lando242]

lando242 last edited by

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.

[falloutboy09]

falloutboy09 last edited by

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.

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

[christoph142]

christoph142 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:

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"

[Deleted User]

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@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.

[christoph142]

christoph142 last edited by

Immer gerne

[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.

[leocg]

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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.

[Deleted User]

Deleted User last edited by

Save as PDF works in Opera 26 Stable.

Ctrl P
Destination Change...
Save as PDF

[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.

[Deleted User]

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

[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:

[ho72]

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That did it. Thanks.

[christoph142]

christoph142 last edited by

You're welcome

[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

[linuxmint7]

linuxmint7 last edited by

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

You're welcome.

[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

[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: