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Issue descriptionChrome Version: 70.0.3538.35 (Official Build) beta OS + version: gLinux (Debian rodete) CPU architecture (32-bit / 64-bit): 64-bit Window manager: Cinnamon What steps will reproduce the problem? (1) Download a filled-out PDF form (China visa application) (2) Print it. (3) Print preview shows correct info, but printed document has all of the filled in text reversed. What is the expected result? Text is not reversed What happens instead? Printed text is backwards. I can provide a sample doc privately (as well as photos of the printed result); please ping me.
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Oct 11
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Oct 11
Just to be clear, which specific PDF are you filling? All the ones I'm aware of are slightly different. http://www.china-embassy.org/chn/lszj/bgxz/P020130830121570742708.pdf http://www.chinaconsulatesf.org/chn/qianzhen/zgqz/P020130828366275572026.pdf http://losangeles.china-consulate.org/chn/fwzc/cybg/P020180208092996674570.pdf
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Oct 11
You're right, and they're all marked V.2013, so that's not really helpful. I'll ping you the doc directly, if that's OK.
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Oct 11
Sure thing. I'll try printing it.
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Oct 11
BTW, I just looked at my printout and it seems like only the first page has reversed glyphs. The later pages printed in the right direction, but the kerning is really messed up.
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Oct 12
Do you have the original, unfilled PDF? Did you fill it out with Chrome or another PDF Viewer?
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Oct 12
I filled this in Acrobat Reader on my Windows machine. I'm reusing a previous version of the application I filled in from 2014, so I unfortunately I don't have the exact version of the unfilled PDF, sorry.
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Oct 12
OK, I will try the ones in comment 3 and see if I can fill them with dummy data to reproduce this. Then QA team can test without have to have access to your personal info. The issue seems to only affect M70. 69.0.3497.100 good 70.0.3538.54 bad 71.0.3573.0 good
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Oct 12
BTW, for me, the print out has really bad kerning for the filled in text.
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Oct 13
I tried http://losangeles.china-consulate.org/chn/fwzc/cybg/P020180208092996674570.pdf and it prints fine, so there's something weird about your PDF. I'll have to strip out the PII to make a public version. - Since the other Visa application PDF printed correctly, I also suspect this may be specific to some PDFs. - I suspect this bug is Linux only and possibly printer specific. The printer may not like the PDF that's being sent. - As a workaround on Linux and ChromeOS, you can do "Print as image" which will print correctly.
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Oct 13
Now what's really weird is I tried again and now I can't repro the bug anymore. Since I can't reproduce this with a virtual printer, I'm using a lot of paper trying to debug this. :-\ Maybe we should just let it be for M70, since M71 worked for me. |
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Comment 1 by thestig@chromium.org
, Oct 11Components: -UI>Browser>PrintPreview Internals>Plugins>PDF