printing is broken on Windows

[bwin]

I tested with atom-shell 0.16.3, 0.17.2 & 0.19.4 (all 32bit) on Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit.
(Also tested on another Win7 HP 64 in a VirtualBox with the same result.)
This gist contains the test-app.
Printing silent or not has no effect on this.
(I can totally live with the button not being printed right, but it has nothing to do with it either. Printing a page without a button leads to the same result.)

This is what the window to be printed looks like:

And this is the result I get (printed throught PDFCreator):

This is printed (edit: directly) on a real printer:

What confuses me most, is that the pdf's orientation is different and the text doesn't look the same in pdf vs. printed paper version. (edit: I chose portrait in PDFCreator)

[bwin]

Also tried with explicitly named fonts (Arial, Roboto, Lucida Console) with the same result.
Images on the other hand seem to be printed fine (but the quality may be not as good as the original).

[bwin]

It's hard to notice with the rotated chars and strike-trough and all, but I think I'm pretty sure the printed version doesn't actually use the font it's supposed to.

BTW the fonts I tested are locally installed.
When I try it with a dynamically loaded webfont from Google ('Bitter' in this example, tried to use something I hadn't installed) atom-shell crashes on print. (It lets me select a printer and then the window content gets white. If I have the devtools open I get an error.)

[bwin]

😭 For me things got worse with 0.20.0.
On Windows it doesn't print (anything) anymore. Edit: After a while the print jobs just disappear from the queue.

It seems odd, that the windows printer spool can't show the page count ("Seiten" in this german screenshot):

@zcbenz I would love if you could look into this.

Edit: Or am I doing something wrong? Nobody confirmed this till now. Am I the only one with this problem? Can anybody print on windows with a recent Atom-Shell?

[bwin]

Printing is really important for my current app... 😢
I'm currently using node-printer as a workaround to at least print pure raw text. This is bad.

[zcbenz]

The printing code on Windows is quite complicated so it will take some time to be fixed, but this is absolutely on my TODO list.

[bwin]

Thanks. 👍

Cheng Zhao notifications@github.com schrieb am Mo., 22. Dez. 2014 04:08:

The printing code on Windows is quite complicated so it will take some
time to be fixed, but this is absolutely on my TODO list.

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[pushpak]

👍 for printing on windows

[hokein]

Hi, all. I'll work on the printing issue this summer. You can see the progress at #1532 .