Firefox 4: Printing to PDF: Text in form fields can't be selected

I have a problem when printing to PDFs (using PDFCreator, but this doesn't seem to matter): while the text of a web site is printed as text, the content of form fields always gets rasterized so that it is impossible to search or select it. It happens on all sites, e.g. try printing http://www.december.com/html/demo/form.html and selecting "All is well that ends well".
Details:
- HW acceleration is off (http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/questions/760923).
- Happens also in safe mode.
- in IE9 this issue doesn't appear. In FF3.x it didn't appear as well.
- using FF 4.0.1
Thanks a lot.

Hello,
I would suggest you to run optical character recognition and see if that helps, please follow the steps mentioned below:-
Open the document- Tools- Text Recognition- In this file
Regards,
Nakul

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