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Edge displays “123456” in PDF but prints “114447”

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Re: Edge displays “123456” in PDF but prints “114447”

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Post by CoryG89 »

MichaelGG wrote: post #19
jdmichal wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Absolutely right. PDF fixes the problem Word documents have where different versions of Word tends to render the document ever so differently. Usually in a way that seems to mess up all those beautiful page breaks you meticulously planned. It does this by every element having absolute positioning.

And is the scourge of every paper I want to read on my Kindle. Everyone publishes their PDFs and there seems to be no reliable way to reflow them.

The "Reading Mode" on the Adobe's Acrobat app for Android does a pretty good job of reflowing most of the PDFs I've thrown at it.

Re: Edge displays “123456” in PDF but prints “114447”

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Post by jdmichal »

MichaelGG wrote: post #19
jdmichal wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Absolutely right. PDF fixes the problem Word documents have where different versions of Word tends to render the document ever so differently. Usually in a way that seems to mess up all those beautiful page breaks you meticulously planned. It does this by every element having absolute positioning.

And is the scourge of every paper I want to read on my Kindle. Everyone publishes their PDFs and there seems to be no reliable way to reflow them.

Should be able to easily reflow text as long as it's using newline operators (T*, ', "). Might still need some basic heuristics for paragraph breaks. But much better than the alternative of attempting to correlate individual lines of text together based on positioning.

Re: Edge displays “123456” in PDF but prints “114447”

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Post by [deleted] »

danso wrote: post #6

Just in case you don't click through, the bug submitter refers to a color PDF (not a scan, so image compression artifacts are not an issue) that is similar in appearance to a periodic table. That is, it is not the sequence of `123456` that is mistranslated into `114447`, but a sequence of 6 table cells, each containing a single digit. It's not just the numbers that are misprinted, but the text inside those cells too,…

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Re: Edge displays “123456” in PDF but prints “114447”

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Post by r00fus »

MichaelGG wrote: post #19
jdmichal wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Absolutely right. PDF fixes the problem Word documents have where different versions of Word tends to render the document ever so differently. Usually in a way that seems to mess up all those beautiful page breaks you meticulously planned. It does this by every element having absolute positioning.

And is the scourge of every paper I want to read on my Kindle. Everyone publishes their PDFs and there seems to be no reliable way to reflow them.

Which is why ePub and other digital book formats exist. I'm glad there is a format that prioritizes WYSIWYG over reflow (though the part of the spec where the introduced scripting is a bit dodgy)

Re: Edge displays “123456” in PDF but prints “114447”

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Post by cptskippy »

bdowling wrote: post #18
saurik wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As someone who works in PDFs constantly (due to work in local government), I would say the point of a PDF is to be able to reproduce the result given a file, not to assume the file cannot be changed... you can easily edit and save PDF files using Acrobat, for example. It is common that when you "print to PDF" you take the output of the printer and serialize that to PDF. I use this feature often on my Mac (which I thi…

The built-in MacOS support for PDF is great. Any app that can print to a printer can print to a PDF file. And the Preview app, despite its name, can edit PDFs to add annotations (text, graphics), add or remove pages, etc. There's also a feature by which you sign your name on a piece of paper, hold it up to the camera, and it will capture it and insert it into a the document. It's convenient that these are built in an…

Doesn't Quartz use PostScript for rendering the MacOS desktop?

Re: Edge displays “123456” in PDF but prints “114447”

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Post by msarnoff »

bdowling wrote: post #18
saurik wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As someone who works in PDFs constantly (due to work in local government), I would say the point of a PDF is to be able to reproduce the result given a file, not to assume the file cannot be changed... you can easily edit and save PDF files using Acrobat, for example. It is common that when you "print to PDF" you take the output of the printer and serialize that to PDF. I use this feature often on my Mac (which I thi…

The built-in MacOS support for PDF is great. Any app that can print to a printer can print to a PDF file. And the Preview app, despite its name, can edit PDFs to add annotations (text, graphics), add or remove pages, etc. There's also a feature by which you sign your name on a piece of paper, hold it up to the camera, and it will capture it and insert it into a the document. It's convenient that these are built in an…

I worked on Preview at Apple from 2008-2011 and created the signature capture feature. It's always cool to hear people talk about it!

Re: Edge displays “123456” in PDF but prints “114447”

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Post by cmurf »

The PDF goes through different rendering paths for display vs print. It's GDI+ for display, and WPF with an XPS spool file for print. So my guess is whatever does PDF to XPS filtering/conversion is getting something wrong; but then it could be complicated by an addtitional bug in the print driver which is why the report says the bug depends on what printer is used for printing.

Re: Edge displays “123456” in PDF but prints “114447”

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Post by martinald »

msarnoff wrote: post #27
bdowling wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The built-in MacOS support for PDF is great. Any app that can print to a printer can print to a PDF file. And the Preview app, despite its name, can edit PDFs to add annotations (text, graphics), add or remove pages, etc. There's also a feature by which you sign your name on a piece of paper, hold it up to the camera, and it will capture it and insert it into a the document. It's convenient that these are built in an…

I worked on Preview at Apple from 2008-2011 and created the signature capture feature. It's always cool to hear people talk about it!

It's such an awesome feature. I don't use macOS as much as I used to but I will always switch to my Mac when I get a doc to sign, which is a lot.

It must have saved many many millions of sheets of paper.

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