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Consumers get a product and they still have to go on Mac to use it.
Preview should not change the file on disk. I would expect it to open the original file as read-only.
Preview should not change the file on disk. I would expect it to open the original file as read-only.
anyone else not able to see sufficient details the tiny screenshots? What was the difference?
Here's a direct link to the 2,240x939 image: https://annoying.technology/media/previeweatingpdfs.png
Preview seems like a good example of something that's worth open sourcing. Not only will people end up doing work for you, you get eyes on the code and more direct issue tracking. Consumers get a product and they still have to go on Mac to use it.
There will be ports to windows and linux in under a month.
They 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.
anyone else not able to see sufficient details the tiny screenshots? What was the difference?
Preview should not change the file on disk. I would expect it to open the original file as read-only.
I don't think this means Preview changes the files just by opening them.
They 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."
And secondly, that hypothetical could well be using broken software too. We really don’t know how bad the PDF’s ABBY produces are, but as someone who owned this scanner and the software, it’s fairly obvious that the software is barely maintained.
It really isn’t Apple’s fault if someone else is producing bad files that they happened to previously tolerate, especially if that somebody isn’t maintaining their software.
They 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.
Those PDFs could have been buggy all along, and only now be showing up due to improvements in preview.
It’s possible that Apple broke preview, but having seen how poorly maintained ABBYY is, I wouldn’t be surprised if it was producing malformed PDFs that just happened to work on older version of preview.
