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August 8, 2017
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Problem Printing to PDF

  • August 8, 2017
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Hi,

I've suddenly started having an issue when trying to print anything from the web to a pdf. 

I have to print outlines for work from a web page to pdf and I need to be able to

edit, copy and past from the pdf to After Effects. 

What I usually do is just highlight/select all the text & hit CTRL-P

This ha never been a problem until today.

here's a video of the issue

I tried uninstalling and reinstalling Acrobat.

I tried clearing all my web browser (chrome) preferences

I tried to do it using Edge Browser but Edge always wants to print the page and not the text.

However the massive cursor problem was not present when I printed the page.

When I print the entire page from chrome I do get the massive cursor problem.

So this leads me to suspect the problem is in my Chrome Browser.

But like I said I have cleared all browser history to the beggining of time and reset the preferences to default.

Still the problem persists.

It's not crippling because I can CTRL-V the text and then create a new PDF from the clipboard and everything is fine.

So I am able to continue working.

I just don't know what may have happened.

Also after i uninstalled and reinstalled acrobat I started getting this warning

I'm not away of any "screen reader" running on my machine.

Is someone spying on me?

I disabled the dialogue in Acrobat's preferences.

Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

If you fix the problem for me I will...be very very happy

-Paul

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Correct answer Dov Isaacs

Chrome's printing including printing to PDF is broken. In recent updates, they started using funky Type 3 outline fonts instead of either native Type 1 or TrueType fonts when creating PostScript for the print process.

Acrobat's text edit capability cannot edit text formatted in those funky fonts.

          - Dov

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Dov Isaacs
Dov IsaacsCorrect answer
Legend
August 23, 2017

Chrome's printing including printing to PDF is broken. In recent updates, they started using funky Type 3 outline fonts instead of either native Type 1 or TrueType fonts when creating PostScript for the print process.

Acrobat's text edit capability cannot edit text formatted in those funky fonts.

          - Dov

- Dov Isaacs, former Adobe Principal Scientist (April 30, 1990 - May 30, 2021)
P.M.B
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August 23, 2017

Thanks Dov,

As it turns out copying to the clipboard is a better workflow anyway, at least in this case.

Appreciate your getting back to me.

-Paul

~Gutterfish