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. >> > > _______________________________________________ > Offline-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/offline-l >
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