Category: Virtual Printer Issues

Virtual Printer Driver – printing from “Google Chrome” and “Microsoft Edge”

Typically, printing applications such as MS Word and Notepad output text with text output commands. In this case, the print job contains text and the output PDF file will contain text. Unfortunately, some applications, during the printing process, render the text in the internal buffer and output it as a bitmap image. For example, this …

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Virtual Printer Driver – Embedded fonts issues

At the moment, there are two problems with embedded fonts: Subsetting problem: Most fonts are too large if they were to be entirely embedded in an output PDF file. The so-called subsetting technique allows one to make files much smaller. By subsetting, only required characters are embedded (only several glyphs instead of the full set …

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