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Firefox PDF Printing nonsense characters when encounter scientific formulas.

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david1941
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i use the latest version of firefox on a windows 7 64 bit PC.

physics formulas such as the momentum principle and velocity update formula have special subscripts and/or symbols, i.e. Pf (final momentum) and delta t (change in time), are not printed properly using the build-in pdf reader.

i use the latest version of firefox on a windows 7 64 bit PC. physics formulas such as the momentum principle and velocity update formula have special subscripts and/or symbols, i.e. Pf (final momentum) and delta t (change in time), are not printed properly using the build-in pdf reader.

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the-edmeister
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Font issue with certain fonts in the print core.

cor-el
cor-el
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There are open bugs about embedding fonts in pdf.js, so I assume that this is happening in your case.

You can try the latest development version of the PDF viewer (pdfjs) to see if it works better than the version shipped with the current Firefox release.

Latest development version (XPI) of the PDF Viewer (pdfjs) extension: