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This is a clickbait, sensationalist headline. “Saving a PDF with Preview in Big Sur can corrupt OCR text added by a third-party program” is more accurate.
Why anyone treats PDF as anything but a write-once format is beyond me. It's so finicky that I'm not shocked bugs like this happen. The only programs I'd be reasonable sure wouldn't screw it up are Acrobat itself, and pdflatex and friends. I think we need a multi-image container format. It could be something that's literally a bunch of jpgs/pngs/pick your poison in a tar container, and given a new extension. OSes wou…
PDF is one of the best things IMO - it's like a docker container for documents. The way the original authors intended it to be, including fonts and all the things that go into making a document. For example, I personally like to purchase books that are in PDF format, not epub/mobi. I want to rely on professional typesetting from the publishers, not some front-end engineer's vision of what the ebook should look like a…
Why anyone treats PDF as anything but a write-once format is beyond me. It's so finicky that I'm not shocked bugs like this happen. The only programs I'd be reasonable sure wouldn't screw it up are Acrobat itself, and pdflatex and friends. I think we need a multi-image container format. It could be something that's literally a bunch of jpgs/pngs/pick your poison in a tar container, and given a new extension. OSes wou…
Would love something like that with svg allowed inside to support vector drawings.
This is a clickbait, sensationalist headline. “Saving a PDF with Preview in Big Sur can corrupt OCR text added by a third-party program” is more accurate.
In my very humble opinion, it's accurate: "Saving a PDF with Preview in Big Sur [Preview in Big Sur] can corrupt OCR text added by a third-party program [is irreversibly destroying PDFs]" I understand the (fairly common, in these comments) viewpoint that this is the fault of the "third-party program", but since the PDF is readable up until Preview touches it...I find it hard to come around to the viewpoint the third-…
PDF is not a bitmap, it’s a script like HTML or JS.
People understand browser incompatibility but some how this is unconscionable.
Why anyone treats PDF as anything but a write-once format is beyond me. It's so finicky that I'm not shocked bugs like this happen. The only programs I'd be reasonable sure wouldn't screw it up are Acrobat itself, and pdflatex and friends. I think we need a multi-image container format. It could be something that's literally a bunch of jpgs/pngs/pick your poison in a tar container, and given a new extension. OSes wou…
You have a PDF of a book and you need to export the pages of a single chapter to a new PDF.
Or you have 30 different PDF's that you need to combine into a single one.
Or a full-color large-filesize scanned PDF that you need to convert to a smaller-sized black-and-white one.
Or you need to copy quotes from a PDF to paste somewhere else.
I could go on... PDF's are documents, and normal workflows involve all sorts of conversion and rearrangement and processing of documents. That's the whole point.
Preview should not change the file on disk. I would expect it to open the original file as read-only.
Yes, the author says it's "the result after modifying (removed a blank page) and saving that same PDF in Preview." So it's not enough to just view the file in Preview.app I take it, but you need to save it out (which still shouldn't strip anything extra, obviously, but is not what I thought was being claimed).
PDF is not a bitmap, it’s a script like HTML or JS. People understand browser incompatibility but some how this is unconscionable.
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PDF is one of the best things IMO - it's like a docker container for documents. The way the original authors intended it to be, including fonts and all the things that go into making a document. For example, I personally like to purchase books that are in PDF format, not epub/mobi. I want to rely on professional typesetting from the publishers, not some front-end engineer's vision of what the ebook should look like a…
What device do you use to read PDF's?
I work with a ton of PDF's between my Mac and iPad, and it mostly works but there are still just way too many bugs. It's a lot of little things, like in Catalina where opening up the sidebar for annotations (comments) seemingly randomized their order. (Big Sur, fortunately, fixed it to be page-order again.) Or how printing a PDF from a website (in Catalina, also seemingly fixed in Big Sur) would look right on the pag…
My iPad would be the perfect device for reading PDF books especially technical and maths text books, if weren't for the Chinese torture of whether it will remember your page the next time you open it or will I have to scroll through until I recall where I left.
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PDF is one of the best things IMO - it's like a docker container for documents. The way the original authors intended it to be, including fonts and all the things that go into making a document. For example, I personally like to purchase books that are in PDF format, not epub/mobi. I want to rely on professional typesetting from the publishers, not some front-end engineer's vision of what the ebook should look like a…
What device do you use to read PDF's?