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<div class="">I know this is off-topic, but since it’s math-, font-, and TeX-related, I figured this crowd would be about as good as it gets.<br class="">
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Occasionally I’d like to be able to print answers from stackexchange, either on paper or direct to pdf. The results I get, from every browser I’ve tried (oops, up to now… see below), are incredibly poor. I will leave aside the weird way things print from stackexchange
directly, since there is <a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/uyg_C91W8rCzAR6jsqp_M9?domain=stackprinter.com" class="">
http://www.stackprinter.com/</a>, presumably created to deal with the aforementioned annoyance. In either case, the answers are rendered in MathJax, but when I print, especially the greek characters are converted to something else, and the result is typically
useless, or close to it. For example, here is a question and its stackprinter-rendered equivalent:<br class="">
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<<a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/ty7NC0YKgRskQJ9zuqjzMO?domain=physics.stackexchange.com" class="">https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/18078/</a>><br class="">
<<a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/4k9FCgZ05JfqKPjJhk_qA1?domain=stackprinter.com" class="">http://www.stackprinter.com/export?question=18078&service=physics.stackexchange</a>><br class="">
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They render just fine on-sxreen, but when I print, from Chrome or Safari, either to paper or to pdf, I get this:<br class="">
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<<a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/I6SbCjZ12RfYDlw0upYbuC?domain=physics.oregonstate.edu" class="">http://physics.oregonstate.edu/~craigda/tmp/physics-18078.pdf</a>><br class="">
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<div>Are you saying that both the above links print badly?</div>
<div>The <a href="http://stackprinter.com" class="">stackprinter.com</a> page prints to PDF just fine for me, using Safari on MacOS 10.13.6 .</div>
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<div>Unfortunately <a href="http://physics.stackexchange.com" class="">physics.stackexchange.com</a> is playing up badly at the moment,</div>
<div>so I cannot try that one.</div>
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I’m not sure why/where the font substitution is occurring, but it seems to be at the system level since I get the same result from Safari and Chrome.
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Curiously, I just discovered that I do NOT get the same result from Firefox (which I rarely use), which prints to pdf as rendered on the screen. So that’s a good clue … for someone else, since I don’t know how these things work under the hood. Is this a webkit
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I would appreciate some help in diagnosing/fixing this so I can print the stackprinter results in a useful form, preferably from Chrome. (At least in asking the question I discovered a work-around! I’d still like to understand the underlying issue and not be
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David Craig<br class="">
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<div>Hope this helps.</div>
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