Printing a web page via a web browser is always dicey. In terms of what is created by printing to the Adobe PDF PostScript printer driver instance, there are a number of variables, none of which are controlled by Adobe Acrobat:
(1) IE 11 doesn't use the traditional GDI-based print system drivers. It uses the WPF model which translates into GDI for subsequent use by the PostScript driver. This accounts for performance issues and some possible formatting glitches.
(2) All browsers that I have tested with have their own particular crazinesses in terms of how they generate printed output.
(3) Web pages themselves can control and/or interfere with what occurs during printing, sometimes generating something “better suited for printing” than what appears on the screen, sometimes blocking printing entirely, and often mucking up the format. Throw in the web pages' use of JavaScript and you can imaging the mess.
By the way, what you get printing to AdobePDF is no different that what you get printing to any Windows PostScript driver-based printer!
An alternative would be to use the PDFMaker ability to create PDF directly from the browser. This capability effectively feeds the URL into an under-the-covers copy of Webkit with conversion to PDF software. But the chances are pretty good that what comes out of this will likewise differ from what you see on the screen on a web page.
- Dov