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PDFs from the print dialog, control of font size?

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I have heavily used all three major browsers for the Mac: Safari, Chrome and Firefox. More and more, and I think this is final, I want to move completely to Firefox. But I've run into a serious roadblock.

I am a researcher working on a book, as part of my methodology I capture every single online news item that I locate on the web as a PDF that I then save into searchable archive. On any given day I produce a sizable number of PDFs.

The way this takes place in each browser is roughly the same, it originates from the Print Dialog box, from which you have the option to send to printer or save as a PDF.

In both Safari and Chrome, when you increase or decrease the size of a font in the web page, the PDF is affected by this change and the font is larger or smaller. Safari, like Firefox, also has the Reader from which you can print. A far better choice if you're interest is in the article and not the ads and the rest of web pages' mishegoss.

The problem in Firefox is that appears that there is no control over the font size in the PDF outcome, it is huge. there are slight differences in the outcomes of coming from a Firefox webpage, directly or from the Reader, but the outcome is more or less the same, very large type and a very long PDF document.

I did a side by side test from a long essay: in the Safari Reader with default font size, the PDF was 16 pages long, from the Firefox Reader, it was a whopping 49 pages. Fooling around with Reader and direct web page printing, plus changing the font size in the web page, had little, noticeable effect on the PDF outcome, fonts still too big and PDFs, far too long.

Is there no way to control the font size in the PDF outcome from the Firefox dialog box?

Thank you for your help.

I have heavily used all three major browsers for the Mac: Safari, Chrome and Firefox. More and more, and I think this is final, I want to move completely to Firefox. But I've run into a serious roadblock. I am a researcher working on a book, as part of my methodology I capture every single online news item that I locate on the web as a PDF that I then save into searchable archive. On any given day I produce a sizable number of PDFs. The way this takes place in each browser is roughly the same, it originates from the Print Dialog box, from which you have the option to send to printer or save as a PDF. In both Safari and Chrome, when you increase or decrease the size of a font in the web page, the PDF is affected by this change and the font is larger or smaller. Safari, like Firefox, also has the Reader from which you can print. A far better choice if you're interest is in the article and not the ads and the rest of web pages' mishegoss. The problem in Firefox is that appears that there is no control over the font size in the PDF outcome, it is huge. there are slight differences in the outcomes of coming from a Firefox webpage, directly or from the Reader, but the outcome is more or less the same, very large type and a very long PDF document. I did a side by side test from a long essay: in the Safari Reader with default font size, the PDF was 16 pages long, from the Firefox Reader, it was a whopping 49 pages. Fooling around with Reader and direct web page printing, plus changing the font size in the web page, had little, noticeable effect on the PDF outcome, fonts still too big and PDFs, far too long. Is there no way to control the font size in the PDF outcome from the Firefox dialog box? Thank you for your help.