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Microsoft Print to PDF outputs as image?
On my old PC running Windows 11 Pro build 10.0.22631 outputs the pdf as text and therefore searchable which is what I want.
But on my new PC also running Windows 11 Pro though more recent build 10.0.26200 that feature outputs the pdf as image.
Is there a way to make it output pdf as text? Thanks
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Yes, that's why I use "Save as PDF" instead of "Microsoft Print to PDF"
It sounds like you're experiencing a difference in how the "Microsoft Print to PDF" feature behaves between your old and new Windows 11 PC. On your old PC, it outputs PDFs with selectable/searchable text, while on your new PC, it outputs PDFs as images, making the text non-searchable.
In Windows 11, Microsoft introduced a new PDF rendering engine, which uses a more modern and secure approach to rendering PDFs. However, this new engine is based on a print-to-image approach, which can result in images instead of text-based PDFs.
