Recent answers to PDF printing with PDFCreator not working optimally in FireFox4. Can firefox3 printing be enable?https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/7609232011-10-25T08:31:12-07:00I'm having the same problem! Text is being converted to images in the resulting PDFs. It's annoying 2011-10-25T08:31:12-07:00genericadmhttps://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/760923#answer-265808<p>I'm having the same problem! Text is being converted to images in the resulting PDFs. It's annoying and it makes the PDFs far less useful - not text searchable and larger file sizes.
</p><p>I tried turning off "hardware acceleration" (FF 7.0.1) and it didn't work. And yes, I both restarted Firefox and restarted my PC. I also tried starting in Safe Mode and that didn't resolve it, either.
</p><p>I'm also experiencing the same PDF output from the same page (a website) from IE (8.x) and Safari (5.34). YES, I'm sure the page is text.
</p><p>I was running PDFCreator 0.98. I upgraded to the latest version (1.2.3) hoping it would help resolve the issue, but it hasn't.
</p><p>Any other ideas or tips? Are there specific settings in PDFCreator I should try?
</p>Thanks !
2011-06-08T03:44:36-07:00PCObsessionhttps://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/760923#answer-196149<p>Thanks&nbsp;!
</p>I have facing the same issue which I didn't face with previous versions of Firefox. I use doPDF soft2011-06-07T18:41:04-07:00white_buethttps://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/760923#answer-195944<p>I have facing the same issue which I didn't face with previous versions of Firefox. I use doPDF software to print a web page into a PDF file. In previous versions of Firefox, the PDF files created using this doPDF software was text searchable, but the new Firefox doesn't allow doPDF to create a text searchable PDF file, rather it makes doPDF to create a PDF file where texts are embedded as images.
</p><p><strong>It is a problem of Firefox, because I have made a PDF copy of a same webpage in Firefox and Google Chrome using the same doPDF software and I found that only the one made in Firefox was not a text searchable PDF file while the one made in Google Chrome was completely okay.</strong>
</p>Thank you!!! This was a seriously not intuitive fix: good find!!! I spent a lot of time wasted on th2011-05-03T03:30:18-07:00studleyleehttps://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/760923#answer-176842<p>Thank you!!! This was a seriously not intuitive fix: good find!!! I spent a lot of time wasted on this re-installing programs and hacking the registry paths. Who would have thought: "Hardware acceleration"&nbsp;?
Thanks!!!!
</p>works for me now. Thanks for sharing
2011-04-02T16:51:11-07:00genlenhttps://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/760923#answer-160801<p>works for me now. Thanks for sharing
</p>The problem is Hardware Acceleration. I have tested this issue extensively with FireFox 4 Beta 10. T2011-01-29T01:36:18-08:00RichNhttps://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/760923#answer-133292<p>The problem is Hardware Acceleration. I have tested this issue extensively with FireFox 4 Beta 10. The frustrating part is disabling Hardware Acceleration in Tools &gt; Options &gt; Advanced only works after a restart of FireFox. I tried everything to avoid a restart, opening a new tab, reloading the page, opening a new window. Changing the Hardware Acceleration requires a restart.
</p><p>I print PDFs so often I guess is just have to disable Hardware Acceleration altogether.
</p><p>Here is a quick example of the page size difference. If you print this page as a PDF with PDFCreator 1.2.0 and hardware acceleration enabled the size is 892 KB. If you disable hardware acceleration the size is 177 KB.
</p><p>I wish there was something the FireFox team could do to improve this situation.
</p>Yes, I believe that Hardware Acceleration is disabled in the Firefox SafeMode. It can also be disabl2011-01-15T09:11:14-08:00the-edmeisterhttps://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/760923#answer-130144<p>Yes, I believe that Hardware Acceleration is disabled in the Firefox SafeMode. It can also be disabled in Tools &gt; Options &gt; Advanced.
</p>I think the problem isn't related with add-ons, but new font rendering features, as Direct2Draw and 2011-01-15T02:40:50-08:00HildebrandoJrhttps://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/760923#answer-130035<p>I think the problem isn't related with add-ons, but new font rendering features, as Direct2Draw and other things linked with hardware acceleration.
</p><p>I wonder with "safe mode", the hardware acceleration is disable?
</p>Hi,
I had this problem too. I found a workaround though: Run Firefox 4 in Safe Mode, which disabl2010-11-17T22:21:20-08:00Embalmer2000https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/760923#answer-117851<p>Hi,
</p><p>I had this problem too. I found a workaround though: Run Firefox 4 in Safe Mode, which disables all addons. The PDF when printed will be searchable and very low in size.
</p><p>The key now is to find out which addon is breaking this function. Hope others can do some testing and shed some light on this.
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