Printing from Firefox looks like printed image instead of text
The printing is inconceivably slow from Firefox. It takes couple of minutes per page.
Printing from Chrome or any PDF reader on the same printer, works like a charm. The text is sharp and printing is immediate.
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When a page uses WebFonts (downloadable fonts) for a significant portion of the text, the entire page is generated as an image. However, that should happen quickly, I don't know why it would be so slow on yours.
What if you try a page that use a built-in font such as Times New Roman or Arial? (Not sure whether those are supplied with Linux, actually.)
For example, this page specifies Time New Roman for print output:
https://www.userchrome.org/how-create-userchrome-css.html
Is that speedy or same issue?
This explanation with the fonts makes sense.
Thjscher2000 said
https://www.userchrome.org/how-create-userchrome-css.html
This page prints immediately and quality of the printout is excellent.
I mainly print PDF attachments I receive in Gmail. Is that maybe that Firefox uses a less improves PDF reader than Chrome? Can I set the Firefox-PDF-reader not to convert the printout to images?
Hi nagy.balage, the built-in PDF viewer converts the file to an HTML canvas, so perhaps that is the worst case scenario. You can open the PDF in a native PDF reader (assuming your system has one) for better results. Once the PDF opens, you can use the download button on the viewer's toolbar:
