Preview in macOS Big Sur is destroying PDFs
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Preview in macOS Big Sur is destroying PDFs
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Re: Preview in macOS Big Sur is destroying PDFs
#2They are using software unsupported by the vendor and blaming Apple for the outcome.
“ABBYY says they don’t support Big Sur yet, that’s fine. But Apple didn’t tell me that I can’t upgrade to Big Sur when I use ABBYY. I’d be a lot less angry if there was a changelog or release notes from Apple where it says there is a known problem with OCR’ed PDFs in Preview. Their software is broken, they need to tell me. I don’t care if it only worked because they had workarounds for super shitty PDFs that ABBYY possibly produces, I just need my OS to keep working for me.”
Re: Preview in macOS Big Sur is destroying PDFs
#3They are using software unsupported by the vendor and blaming Apple for the outcome. “ABBYY says they don’t support Big Sur yet, that’s fine. But Apple didn’t tell me that I can’t upgrade to Big Sur when I use ABBYY. I’d be a lot less angry if there was a changelog or release notes from Apple where it says there is a known problem with OCR’ed PDFs in Preview. Their software is broken, they need to tell me. I don’t ca…
Would be interesting to see if Preview is stripping OCRd text from PDFs not created by ABBYY FineReader.
Re: Preview in macOS Big Sur is destroying PDFs
#4They are using software unsupported by the vendor and blaming Apple for the outcome. “ABBYY says they don’t support Big Sur yet, that’s fine. But Apple didn’t tell me that I can’t upgrade to Big Sur when I use ABBYY. I’d be a lot less angry if there was a changelog or release notes from Apple where it says there is a known problem with OCR’ed PDFs in Preview. Their software is broken, they need to tell me. I don’t ca…
Read it again. This bug could hit you without ever using ABBYY yourself. Apple broke Preview.
Re: Preview in macOS Big Sur is destroying PDFs
#5They are using software unsupported by the vendor and blaming Apple for the outcome. “ABBYY says they don’t support Big Sur yet, that’s fine. But Apple didn’t tell me that I can’t upgrade to Big Sur when I use ABBYY. I’d be a lot less angry if there was a changelog or release notes from Apple where it says there is a known problem with OCR’ed PDFs in Preview. Their software is broken, they need to tell me. I don’t ca…
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Re: Preview in macOS Big Sur is destroying PDFs
#6Preview should not change the file on disk. I would expect it to open the original file as read-only.
Re: Preview in macOS Big Sur is destroying PDFs
#7Time machine?
Re: Preview in macOS Big Sur is destroying PDFs
#8They are using software unsupported by the vendor and blaming Apple for the outcome. “ABBYY says they don’t support Big Sur yet, that’s fine. But Apple didn’t tell me that I can’t upgrade to Big Sur when I use ABBYY. I’d be a lot less angry if there was a changelog or release notes from Apple where it says there is a known problem with OCR’ed PDFs in Preview. Their software is broken, they need to tell me. I don’t ca…
Here's the rest of the statement that you left out that answers your point.
"...I just need my OS to keep working for me. This bug could hit me without even owning a scanner at all – someone sending me a PDF that I then unknowingly break before archiving it. That’s the part I’m mad about."
Re: Preview in macOS Big Sur is destroying PDFs
#9Time machine?
Backups are always great, but if something is broken silently behind your back and you only realize in a few years that your archived documents are not searchable any more that makes it harder to recover.
Re: Preview in macOS Big Sur is destroying PDFs
#10anyone else not able to see sufficient details the tiny screenshots? What was the difference?