Chrome PDF viewer printing fillable PDF text very small
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I have a program (that I wrote) that serves fillable PDF forms. These forms are opened in chrome using chrome's built-in PDF viewer. The chrome viewer allows me to fill in the form on the screen, then print the form. In the past this worked fine, but now something odd is happening.
After filling in a form everything is fine until I click on the PDF viewer's printer icon to print, then chrome shows the print preview (with printer options on the left and the form preview on the right). The print preview on the right looks like a blank PDF form (the form is there but not the text I entered).
Closer inspection shows that at the lower left-hand corner of the preview is what looks like lines, but it is actually the data in super-micro print. If I change printers (using the printer option panel) OR if I toggle 'fit to page' (off then back on) the text resizes and then appears and prints fine.
This is happening on chrome Version 49.0.2623.112 (32-bit) and Version 70.0.3538.102 (64-bit) that I tested. Two very different versions, both using chrome's internal PDF viewer.
On ver 49, the print dialog has a 'fit to page' and a 'two-sided' option. Initially the text is micro printed, toggling fit to page off-on fixes the text.
On ver 70, the print dialog has a 'fit' to page' and a scale factor. Initially the text is fine, changing scale to 100% micro prints, higher or lower scale factors work fine.
This problem was reported to me by a client and I was able to reproduce it.
I tested several forms and I found one that does not have the problem. There may be others, every other form I tested has this problem. All the PDF forms are rather complex insurance forms with hundreds of fields, and all come from a reputable source, a large multi-national corporation that designs insurance forms, so I do not believe the forms are at fault.
I don't expect a solution to be forthcoming but can anyone confirm this is a problem with the PDF viewer in chrome?
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I have a program (that I wrote) that serves fillable PDF forms. These forms are opened in chrome using chrome's built-in PDF viewer. The chrome viewer allows me to fill in the form on the screen, then print the form. In the past this worked fine, but now something odd is happening.
After filling in a form everything is fine until I click on the PDF viewer's printer icon to print, then chrome shows the print preview (with printer options on the left and the form preview on the right). The print preview on the right looks like a blank PDF form (the form is there but not the text I entered).
Closer inspection shows that at the lower left-hand corner of the preview is what looks like lines, but it is actually the data in super-micro print. If I change printers (using the printer option panel) OR if I toggle 'fit to page' (off then back on) the text resizes and then appears and prints fine.
This is happening on chrome Version 49.0.2623.112 (32-bit) and Version 70.0.3538.102 (64-bit) that I tested. Two very different versions, both using chrome's internal PDF viewer.
On ver 49, the print dialog has a 'fit to page' and a 'two-sided' option. Initially the text is micro printed, toggling fit to page off-on fixes the text.
On ver 70, the print dialog has a 'fit' to page' and a scale factor. Initially the text is fine, changing scale to 100% micro prints, higher or lower scale factors work fine.
This problem was reported to me by a client and I was able to reproduce it.
I tested several forms and I found one that does not have the problem. There may be others, every other form I tested has this problem. All the PDF forms are rather complex insurance forms with hundreds of fields, and all come from a reputable source, a large multi-national corporation that designs insurance forms, so I do not believe the forms are at fault.
I don't expect a solution to be forthcoming but can anyone confirm this is a problem with the PDF viewer in chrome?
google-chrome pdf printing
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I have a program (that I wrote) that serves fillable PDF forms. These forms are opened in chrome using chrome's built-in PDF viewer. The chrome viewer allows me to fill in the form on the screen, then print the form. In the past this worked fine, but now something odd is happening.
After filling in a form everything is fine until I click on the PDF viewer's printer icon to print, then chrome shows the print preview (with printer options on the left and the form preview on the right). The print preview on the right looks like a blank PDF form (the form is there but not the text I entered).
Closer inspection shows that at the lower left-hand corner of the preview is what looks like lines, but it is actually the data in super-micro print. If I change printers (using the printer option panel) OR if I toggle 'fit to page' (off then back on) the text resizes and then appears and prints fine.
This is happening on chrome Version 49.0.2623.112 (32-bit) and Version 70.0.3538.102 (64-bit) that I tested. Two very different versions, both using chrome's internal PDF viewer.
On ver 49, the print dialog has a 'fit to page' and a 'two-sided' option. Initially the text is micro printed, toggling fit to page off-on fixes the text.
On ver 70, the print dialog has a 'fit' to page' and a scale factor. Initially the text is fine, changing scale to 100% micro prints, higher or lower scale factors work fine.
This problem was reported to me by a client and I was able to reproduce it.
I tested several forms and I found one that does not have the problem. There may be others, every other form I tested has this problem. All the PDF forms are rather complex insurance forms with hundreds of fields, and all come from a reputable source, a large multi-national corporation that designs insurance forms, so I do not believe the forms are at fault.
I don't expect a solution to be forthcoming but can anyone confirm this is a problem with the PDF viewer in chrome?
google-chrome pdf printing
asked Nov 22 at 13:24
kpg
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I have a program (that I wrote) that serves fillable PDF forms. These forms are opened in chrome using chrome's built-in PDF viewer. The chrome viewer allows me to fill in the form on the screen, then print the form. In the past this worked fine, but now something odd is happening.
After filling in a form everything is fine until I click on the PDF viewer's printer icon to print, then chrome shows the print preview (with printer options on the left and the form preview on the right). The print preview on the right looks like a blank PDF form (the form is there but not the text I entered).
Closer inspection shows that at the lower left-hand corner of the preview is what looks like lines, but it is actually the data in super-micro print. If I change printers (using the printer option panel) OR if I toggle 'fit to page' (off then back on) the text resizes and then appears and prints fine.
This is happening on chrome Version 49.0.2623.112 (32-bit) and Version 70.0.3538.102 (64-bit) that I tested. Two very different versions, both using chrome's internal PDF viewer.
On ver 49, the print dialog has a 'fit to page' and a 'two-sided' option. Initially the text is micro printed, toggling fit to page off-on fixes the text.
On ver 70, the print dialog has a 'fit' to page' and a scale factor. Initially the text is fine, changing scale to 100% micro prints, higher or lower scale factors work fine.
This problem was reported to me by a client and I was able to reproduce it.
I tested several forms and I found one that does not have the problem. There may be others, every other form I tested has this problem. All the PDF forms are rather complex insurance forms with hundreds of fields, and all come from a reputable source, a large multi-national corporation that designs insurance forms, so I do not believe the forms are at fault.
I don't expect a solution to be forthcoming but can anyone confirm this is a problem with the PDF viewer in chrome?
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