Google Chrome 51 produces 10 times bigger PDF document via Bullzip compared to MS IE
Reported by
vladimir...@teamdev.com,
Jun 16 2016
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Issue descriptionUserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/51.0.2704.84 Safari/537.36 Steps to reproduce the problem: 1. Install Bullzip PDF printer from http://www.bullzip.com/ 2. Load the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phobos_(moon) web page 3. Print web page using Bullzip PDF printer Current result: The web page is printed as PDF document and stored on a local file system. The output PDF document size is ~8MB. What is the expected behavior? It would be great if Google Chrome produces small PDF document via Bullzip PDF printer like MS Internet Explorer does. The expected PDF document size is ~800KB instead of ~8MB. What went wrong? If I print the web page using Bullzip PDF printer in MS Internet Explorer 11, the output PDF document size is ~800KB. Google Chrome produces output PDF document with size ~8MB. It looks like Google Chrome converts the web page into a bigger document for printing than MS Internet Explorer. Did this work before? No Chrome version: 51.0.2704.84 Channel: stable OS Version: 10.0 Flash Version: Shockwave Flash 21.0 r0
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Jun 17 2016
I don't have Adobe Acrobat installed at all. So, I don't think it's related to bug 409472
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Jun 17 2016
Can you attach the PDFs produced in Chrome and IE?
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Jun 24 2016
This is possibly related to https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=473572 As you see in Comment 14 by wfh@chromium.org, May 20, 2015 there is a change Revision 310514 is good Revision 310520 is bad where print behaviour changed to a bad way.
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Jun 24 2016
I have also done some tests with Firefox. The PDFs created with Firefox and Bullzip PDF printer are about 10 times smaller than PDFs created with Chromium and Bullzip PDF Printer. I also tried PDF Printer from Foxit (https://www.foxitsoftware.com/de/products/pdf-reader/) with the same result. IE and Firefox creates small PDFs and Chromium very big PDFs. When you look at the Windows printer queue you also see that the print jobs gets very big with Chromium where as with IE and Firefox they are much smaller.
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Aug 15 2016
Having same issue across large user-base with Chrome 51. Tremendous print jobs (300-600MB) and print to PDF results in approx. 10x size. No issue with IE/FF. Let me know if you need additional diagnostic info. Thanks.
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Aug 25 2016
Today Google Chrome Canary updated to 54.0.2839.3. Please try it out and see if it makes a difference. re: comment 7 - Different problems can have the same symptom. Without knowing exactly what you are printing, I cannot say whether your problem is in fact this bug or not.
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Aug 28 2016
I did a test with Canary 55.0.2842.0 (64 bit) Test was done witha HTML file which is 82 DIN A4 page printet out. Size of the resulting PDF decreases to 6MB (from 23,3 MB size with Chrome 52) But it's still much bigger than PDFs created with IE or Firefox (smaller than 300kb) All PDFs created with BUllzip PDF Printer (Bersion 10.12.2363).
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Aug 29 2016
Thanks for the feedback. Looks like we are moving in the right direction. Taking ownership of this bug. Will look into it further.
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Aug 30 2016
If needed i can send you the HTML file (in an email).
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Oct 6 2016
this is a duplicate of bug 92304 since Aug 10 2011 The issue is NOT with BULLzip or any other "PDF Printer". Instead it is that Chrome produces large raster output (images only) and produces output that is NOT text searcheable. Raphael
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Oct 6 2016
- Nobody is blaming the PDF printers here. - Many bugs have similar symptoms but different underlying causes, just like a doctor would not lump all reports of headaches as a single disease. Until I'm sure two bugs are the same, I won't merge them. Every bug gets some amount of individual attention. |
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Comment 1 by thestig@chromium.org
, Jun 16 2016Labels: -Type-Feature Type-Bug