Hi Nemo,

Thanks for voicing your concern.  The issue you raise, is a known issue
being tracked and worked on here
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T178665

It might be also related to chromium
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=431507

We have a possible fix of implementing a different font stack tracked here:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T169828
In the meantime, I would use the browser's built in print function and
print-to-pdf.

Thanks,

J

On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 2:13 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) <[email protected]>
wrote:

> I still have trouble understanding what's the point of making
> functionality worse for a majority of users, or indeed all of them.
>
> I've just tried exporting single pages with the "download PDF" link (the
> metadata says they're made by "Chromium") and they're completely
> unreadable, with overlapping characters and so on. They're considerably
> worse even than the PDF produced by a stock browser from the printable
> version (Firefox 56 here).
>
> Even if the previous functionality happened to error out 95 % of the time,
> it would be better than the present situation.
>
> Federico
>
> Federico Leva (Nemo), 11/10/2017 09:40:
>
>>
>>> It does, of course. Wikisource and Wikibooks users sorely need to print
>> books for offline reading, it's something we keep hearing from anybody in
>> "real life".
>>
>> Removing basic functionality and downgrading existing features for no
>> gain is an excellent long-run method to kill projects like Wikibooks,
>> Wikisource and Wikiversity whose potential users (such as teachers and
>> other OER folks) may prefer alternative platforms which show more care.
>>
>
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