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Print in Firefox

Daniels Konto
Daniels Konto
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I like the PDF Viewer in Firefox and I use it very often, but when I want to print documents, there are always headers and footers with the file path, date and time and number of pages. How can I turn that off?

I like the PDF Viewer in Firefox and I use it very often, but when I want to print documents, there are always headers and footers with the file path, date and time and number of pages. How can I turn that off?

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jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
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Something seems to have gotten broken recently with printing PDFs. The checkbox to suppress headers and footers is hidden for PDFs -- probably because they aren't supposed to be printed -- but somehow they are getting printed anyway.

For now, the quickest workaround would be to print from your stand-alone PDF application (and make sure it is set to actual size rather than fit to page).

When you are displaying a PDF in Firefox's built-in PDF viewer, there is a download button on its toolbar you can use for that: