HTML-Background converts text to image?

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Peter2
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HTML-Background converts text to image?

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Find attached a PDF, created from a HTML-site of Github. Every text which has a grey background it not a text anymore, it is a picture. It starts at the middle of the first page.

Bug or feature or wrong print settings?
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TrackerSupp-Daniel
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Re: HTML-Background converts text to image?

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Hi, Peter2

This is dependant on how the browser handles sending data with a background. Often it is more intensive to send font details with a colored background, than it is to simply convert it to an image. That could be why it is sent to our printer like this.
Please as a test, try printing to another virtual printer, such as "MS print to PDF", and let me know if this works better for you. If it does, please send us a link to the page you are printing and inform us which browser you are printing from, so we can try to reproduce this.

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Re: HTML-Background converts text to image?

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My test with IE and FF; PDFXChange and MS PDF:
When I use inside the browser the setting "print with background", then the related area is printed as image.
When there is no background, then there is text

So the issue is not solved and not solvable, but explained ..
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Re: HTML-Background converts text to image?

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Hi, Peter2

I wouldnt say it is unsolvable, simply that it cannot be addressed from our end. You do always have the option of running OCR on the document in our Editor afterwards. If you want to have this resolved from the start, you will want to email the support teams for the browser you use most often and ask if they can do anything from their end to send text data which is usable by virtual printers like ours. in these cases

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