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    • Deleted User
      Deleted User last edited by

      @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.

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      • christoph142
        christoph142 last edited by

        Immer gerne 🆙

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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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