PDF files automatically launch print dialog when opened in Foxit?

[Patchworks]

I noted this issue last year in another post related to a PDF printing bug (yet to be resolved)…but it didn’t get any traction, perhaps because I didn’t break it out as a separate post (note you have to open the post and read down to the next paragraph to see what I said about this Print problem):

Text Printing Bug

FWIW, I was able to replicate this problem in the new SU Lab environment. One thing that I failed to mention in the OP is that it’s even more frustrating because in the SU print preview (before you hit the Print to PDF button), everything looks normal and you can fiddle with the view and get it just the way you want to see it in the PDF file. It’s not until you create and view the PDF file that you see the problems. Then you have to go back and forth using trial and error to guess what the ap…

As noted by @slbaumgartner, the Print dialog (sometimes) forces you to save the PDF file before it brings it up in the viewer along with the Print dialog. So, yes, IMHO, this is a bug, not a feature. Note that I said it ‘sometimes’ forces you to save the PDF file before printing…but not always. Have you noticed this too? I haven’t been able to pinpoint exactly when it does this, I just know that it doesn’t always force you to save the PDF file before it brings it up in the viewer.