Comment on Save as PDF

• Zwiebel@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It can produce different results than print to pdf unfortunately

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  • SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Could you expand on that, I’m curious because export to PDF has always worked flawlessly for me.

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    • Zwiebel@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I was helping someone and both export and print to pdf messed up different minute aspects of the design/layout. I don’t remember what exactly it was tho

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  • WalrusDragonOnABike@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Print to pdf generally loses the text and just makes it an image though. Which can balloon size and prevent ctrl+f without running ocr on it and saving an additional layer with more mistakes than the original.

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    • BanMe@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Are you sure you don’t have “print as image” enabled there? It should keep it as a layered PDF, not rasterizing.

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      • WalrusDragonOnABike@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I probably did. Think I’ve had some things not print correctly without that on an actual printer so I turned that on sometimes?

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• Railcar8095@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’m going to assume you’re on the younger side. That’s a relatively recent thing. For many many years we had to install PDF printers.

  Also the PDF printer is generic, but the export has to implemented for each application individually.

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  • The_v@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    CutePDF was the best.

    cutepdf.com/products/cutepdf/writer.asp

    Started out with it in XP.

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    • BagOfHeavyStones@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Still using it today whenever I need to flatten a PDF with my scanned signature.

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      • BCsven@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Why do you need to flatten it?

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    • Railcar8095@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Just reading that name made my articulations ache.

      It’s great is still active though.

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  • SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m in my forties. The post we are talking about was made in 2026. Priyanka Lakhara definitely looks younger than me, didn’t even make her Twitter account until January 2024.

    What does age have to do with a post made… four days ago by someone who is either late twenties to mid-thirties at most?

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    • Railcar8095@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The age comment is not about the age of the posts, but about how you seem so surprised about printing as PDF rather than export as PDF.

      Using a virtual printer was the norm until relatively recently, and even then it’s still the most effective because anything than can print can use that to generate a PDF.

      That’s how I still create PDFs honestly.

      Didn’t want you offend, sorry if came out wrong

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      • SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        No offense taken, just confused because I never had this much problems with PDFs, but as I said, I was pirating Adobe Acrobat for a long, long time so maybe I just didn’t run into as many issues.

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• Korne127@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Well, but we’re not just talking about Office. What about browsers, document viewers, etc.

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  • SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    My browser saves PDFs fine?

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    • W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      How about notepad. Or paint.

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• unknown1234_5@kbin.earth ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  oop probably meant from websites

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