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Printing a PDF results in garbled text (sometimes)

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Mar 15, 202618451 views
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Problem

We have a system that renders a report as a PDF, and displays it in the browser for the user. In the browser, the document always appears to display fine, but when printed on one machine, it sometimes changes some of the data in the report to seemingly random characters. Here are some examples of t…

Error Output

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Bvhvt ul1: -!3122
Ti jqqf e!Wjb;
Nfttf ohf s!Tf swjdf

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Fix for: Printing a PDF results in garbled text (sometimes)

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I noticed that there were lots of good suggestions for how to fix this printing issue, but I thought it might be interesting and useful to post an explanation of the underlying cause. It appears that these PDF misprints are due to a character encodi…

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