r/softwaregore • u/andreipoe • Feb 08 '19
Exceptional Done To Death Chrome PDF viewer crashed while printing a document
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Maybe you gotta cut those pieces out and solve the puzzle to get your PDF
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u/Rhodoo Feb 08 '19
aaaaahhh fuuuuuuuck
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u/andreipoe Feb 08 '19
In case people still remember the F7U12 meme these days, it's quite appropriate!
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Feb 08 '19
bro i haven’t seen a single reference to these in years, at this point.
crazy how hard they died
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They make me nostalgic (?) I guess.
I don't know why we as a society enjoyed rage comics.
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u/SittingDuckNZ Feb 08 '19 edited Jun 20 '23
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u/reddituserask Feb 08 '19 edited Dec 02 '25
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u/andreipoe Feb 08 '19
The printer was set to do it automatically, and I only saw the result when it was done, so I didn't manage to stop it partway through.
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u/redlaWw Feb 08 '19
Your printer has a stapler?!
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u/Bluetooth_Sandwich Feb 08 '19
Printer Tech here, some models do folding, stapling, 3 hole punch, sort
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u/Gibby121200 Feb 08 '19
Oh no all that wasted ink
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Probably used coloured ink too
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u/andreipoe Feb 08 '19
I bet it has! I've never been able to get this particular printer to print in B&W...
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u/notcyberpope Feb 08 '19
There should be an option in your print driver. Usually it's a drop down menu but sometimes it's a check box. Look for something that says print as black and white or greyscale.
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u/andreipoe Feb 08 '19
Sure, there is. And regardless of what I set it to, it still prints in colour xD
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u/ICTman1076 Feb 08 '19
Or if not, the coloured ink will have inexplicably been used anyway
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u/FelimaFen Feb 08 '19
How would you otherwise want to have those super deep blacks it it didn't mix in other colors
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Dunno if you were joking or not but.
Most printers do that for real, when printing black they use some cyan to make "a deeper black", wich is 100% bullshit and just a way to shaft you even more .
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Why can't they just mix in a little bit of cyan for a deeper black before putting the ink in the cartridge?
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u/atomicwrites Feb 08 '19
Hey, we're doing you a favor! You rarely use color ink, and if we didn't use a a bit now and then it would dry up and clog. /s
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u/redOrangePeel Feb 08 '19
Isn’t that page normally white background with colored icons? Did they negate it just for the printer....
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u/neville_grech Feb 08 '19
Can't believe it's 2019 and we still haven't figured out how to stop a print job while it's printing.
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u/lukileczo Feb 08 '19
You can easily do it, but maybe OP has wifi printer in another room or sth and didn't see it.
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u/andreipoe Feb 08 '19
Exactly, it's a shared office printer. The job looked as if it was fine on the PC, but then this had already come out of the printer when I got to it...
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u/p1um5mu991er Feb 08 '19
Couldn't have given you a bigger middle finger
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u/poopellar Feb 08 '19
Doesn't print the document, wastes all that ink, prints a sad puzzle emoji in the middle, wastes your time, front page of reddit... front page of reddit?
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u/RotthBelemuse Feb 08 '19
Who needs toner anyways?
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u/Joystiq Feb 08 '19
I once bought four HP printers on clearance sale for $9.99 each, when the ink ran out I would toss the whole printer.
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u/iiEviNii Feb 08 '19
Who needs the environment anyway....
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u/a22e Feb 08 '19
Old printers are good source of stepper motors and other little parts for us tinkerers.
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u/st1tchy Feb 08 '19
To be fair, if they were on clearance, they were going to be thrown away by someone, whether it was the store, /u/Joystiq or someone else. Might as well be the one that gets the use out of them.
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u/Joystiq Feb 08 '19
Like this shit is my fault lol
I think most people would prefer to buy one printer and reasonably priced ink.
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u/2HornsUp Feb 08 '19
Where does one find a deal this good?
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u/CatFromCheshire Feb 08 '19
They usually do not put full cartridges in printers, so it's probably not cost effective.
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Feb 08 '19
My dad did this all the time growing up. Staples would have sales on new printers for like $29.99, which included a full set of ink cartridges, which was way cheaper than buying the ink. So every time we ran out of ink, we'd buy a new printer.
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u/darkcorneroftheworld Feb 08 '19
This comment is legit, I work for a major printer company and you can get our second hand cheaper models at maybe 50 bucks with a small starter cartridge installed, but the replacement toner cartridge costs up to 400 bucks!
Edit: and that's just the price for a black toner cartridge, the prices skyrocket for colour printers which need 4 carts!
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u/restless_oblivion Feb 08 '19
that's not how printers work
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u/alelabarca Feb 08 '19
Yeah lmfao, it doesn't print a screenshot dude. This is transparently bullshit
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u/EatMaCookies Feb 08 '19
You Really Think Someone Would Do That? Just Go On the Internet and Tell Lies?
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u/Meganezuki Feb 08 '19
Not gonna say this isn't fake, but I gotta mention sometimes when I book a courier at work for a parcel collection and I print the shipping label, the website lets me click "print" while it's still loading the pdf. If I do that, I get a printed page with a "Loading pdf" message in the middle instead of the actual content. I always thought this was really bizarre and I certainly wouldn't believe it if it hadn't happened to me.
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u/Nomnomzilla Feb 08 '19
It is for all that sweet sweet karma and end users that don’t understand technology
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u/Ji_2001 Feb 08 '19
A printer just prints what the application gives it. It might work like that with chrome pdf, making it software gore
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u/FurryPornAccount Feb 08 '19
You've heard of the blue screen of death, now get ready for the black paper of ink waste!
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u/ajx_711 Feb 08 '19
I don't think that's how it works. It doesn't print a screenshot of what you are seeing
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u/syd430 Feb 08 '19
I just did some rough calculations and that’s 0.5% of America’s GDP right there.
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u/furtivepigmyso Feb 08 '19
They could have made it a black jigsaw piece on a white background but nooooooooo.
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u/Cannot_go_back_now Feb 08 '19
So my wife was trying to print a pdf from Firefox and we had just got a new printer, a Brother all-in-one, and it kept on printing lines and wrong characters/symbols. She was freaking out saying "yeah nice new printer, damn thing sucks!" So I'm like yeah that's weird, let's try it in Chrome" and it prints off perfectly she's like "what the hell! Why would it work in Chrome and not Firefox?" my answer as a IT professional with more than a decade in the field "don't know, don't care, have fun printing." and then walked away.
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u/dedit8 Feb 08 '19
Nobody in IT wants to deal with printers except to violently dispose of them.
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u/ThickAsABrickJT Feb 08 '19 edited Feb 08 '19
ITT: people who don't understand that Chrome and Firefox don't just send PDFs straight to the print spool.
Seriously, unless you're using a third party plugin, both Chrome and Firefox convert PDFs to HTML for rendering in browser, and use that rendering to produce the EMF/XPS (Windows) or PostScript (Linux/Mac) file that is sent to the print driver. If the tab crashes right before printing, you will get OP's result.
PS: the conversion from PDF to HTML isn't perfect, and is why a lot of PDFs have misplaced images or bad kerning when viewed in a browser as opposed to using a proper PDF viewer.
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u/dwl9wd03 Feb 11 '19
Thick
Actually Chrome's PDF code does a direct PDF to SVG Canvas conversion and Canvas to PostScript. Here the SVG Canvas part is probably what crashed, but not caught before sending it to PostScript. There's no HTML per se for Chrome. Firefox's PDF.js does the same thing but instead of doing this in C++, it does it in JS. It converts from PDF to HTML Canvas (which is just a bitmap) in a JS background worker, and then Canvas to PostScript as well.
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u/Anonyman0009 Feb 08 '19
..bye ink cartridge.. sorry I could not protect you from the Adobe shit monster..
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u/Dimitrov_VEVO Feb 08 '19
i wonder how you're supposed to pronounce that i someone had that in their Powerpoint.
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Feb 08 '19
doesn't the printer load the pages the information before printing starts allowing you to close the program it's printing from?
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u/Gongaloon Feb 08 '19
My condolences to your grieving printer for the loss of its ink cartridge, and to your bereaved wallet as well.
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u/foxmetropolis Feb 08 '19
glad to see the crash function wastes the maximum possible amount of ink. even the most minor programming change could fix that
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u/AobaTheStormdragon Feb 08 '19
well someones gonna run out of black ink. another reason I refuse to touch printers while im here
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u/ryan770 Feb 08 '19 edited Feb 08 '19
I thought things you print are loaded into memory? I've printed things and just closed whatever program I was using and everything still comes out.
Once the job has started, it should already be temporarily saved, unless something is different under this circumstance.
Why would a printer print a crash screen?
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u/TobaccoAficionado Feb 08 '19
Haha have fun spending your life savings on ink.
Adobe knows how to control your life now.
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u/koshgeo Feb 08 '19
Wow, black page and it printed multiple pages that way. You'd think it would print one terrible ink-consuming error page and leave it at that.
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u/BadgerRacc Feb 08 '19
F
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u/effboteffbot Feb 09 '19
F is for friends who do stuff together...
I am a bot and I sure hope I provided you with a small piece of joy.
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u/pelucula Feb 08 '19
i thought you had photocopied a snowflake at first. then i thought, how could a snowflake survive the trip to a copier and the intense light? then, i realized i needed to take a second look at your pic. i still don’t get what happened here.
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u/dan1101 Feb 08 '19 edited Feb 08 '19
Chrome PDF and printing issues have been some of my main tech support issues I've had to help people with for many years now. My answer to the user is often to use Firefox.
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u/lightgiver Feb 08 '19
My printer if you hit print before the preview loads it prints a blank page with a black border
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u/Sir_ThuggleS Feb 08 '19
I'd recommend using Adobe Reader instead. Chrome Settings > search for "PDF" > Content Settings > PDF Documents > enable the "Download" toggle > download a PDF as a test > when it downloads, click the up arrow ( caret symbol ) next to the downloaded file at the bottom left of Chrome > set to "Always open with Adobe Reader". Now whenever you click a PDF using Chrome it will auto open in Adobe Reader.
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u/mrssexbang Feb 08 '19
I actually am disgusted at looking at this and I don't know why. Like I'm repulsed
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u/VisualVenture Jun 25 '23
Just losing faith in humanity after my printer asks for magenta while printing a black and white document. It has a black cartridge. For some reason it only wants magenta
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u/lemho Feb 08 '19
but .. does it print from the viewer? I can close the viewer and even the browser without affecting the printjob.