Previously, rasterized printing would use the QPrinter backend whenever annotations were to be printed, and fall back to the convert-to-ps toolchain otherwise. Effectively, this meant that printing on windows without showing the annotations was not possible (because on windows only the QPrinter can be used for printing).

However, there is a pending poppler patch at

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=102513

that allows to disable annotation rendering for the renderToImage and renderToPainter methods that are used by QPrinter. This patch makes use of this new option, making printing on windows without annotations possible.