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Edge displays “123456” in PDF but prints “114447”
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Re: Edge displays “123456” in PDF but prints “114447”
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The built-in MacOS support for PDF is great. Any app that can print to a printer can print to a PDF file. And the Preview app, despite its name, can edit PDFs to add annotations (text, graphics), add or remove pages, etc. There's also a feature by which you sign your name on a piece of paper, hold it up to the camera, and it will capture it and insert it into a the document. It's convenient that these are built in an…
I worked on Preview at Apple from 2008-2011 and created the signature capture feature. It's always cool to hear people talk about it!
Thank you so much!
Re: Edge displays “123456” in PDF but prints “114447”
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I worked on Preview at Apple from 2008-2011 and created the signature capture feature. It's always cool to hear people talk about it!
It's such an awesome feature. I don't use macOS as much as I used to but I will always switch to my Mac when I get a doc to sign, which is a lot. It must have saved many many millions of sheets of paper.
To be fair, on a Microsoft Surface you would just use your pen to sign directly on the screen which is much more natural. It doesn't make any sense to me that Steve Jobs was so anti-pen, while also pushing for intuitive interaction.
Re: Edge displays “123456” in PDF but prints “114447”
#45Maybe we really should bring https://pdfviewer.io to Windows. Looks like the default app is somewhat crap :P
> Maybe we really should bring https://pdfviewer.io to Windows. Looks like the default app is somewhat crap :P
What was wrong with the OP posting a link to a PDF Viewer that doesn't corrupt the output when sent to printer?
Re: Edge displays “123456” in PDF but prints “114447”
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It's such an awesome feature. I don't use macOS as much as I used to but I will always switch to my Mac when I get a doc to sign, which is a lot. It must have saved many many millions of sheets of paper.
To be fair, on a Microsoft Surface you would just use your pen to sign directly on the screen which is much more natural. It doesn't make any sense to me that Steve Jobs was so anti-pen, while also pushing for intuitive interaction.
Perhaps if someone added electromagnetic traction so that the screen provided some push-back to the pen tip, it would seem "natural," but as things are now, my on-screen signature is as good as a chicken scratch.
Re: Edge displays “123456” in PDF but prints “114447”
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As someone who works in PDFs constantly (due to work in local government), I would say the point of a PDF is to be able to reproduce the result given a file, not to assume the file cannot be changed... you can easily edit and save PDF files using Acrobat, for example. It is common that when you "print to PDF" you take the output of the printer and serialize that to PDF. I use this feature often on my Mac (which I thi…
Absolutely right. PDF fixes the problem Word documents have where different versions of Word tends to render the document ever so differently. Usually in a way that seems to mess up all those beautiful page breaks you meticulously planned. It does this by every element having absolute positioning.
Off-topic, but you seem like you might know: why does text copied from PDFs sometimes have messed-up spaces? It seems to guess where the spaces should go based on kerning, so with justified text, a widely-spaced line may come out with a space between each letter, while a narrowly-spaced one has no spaces at all.
(Also the thing where it inserts line breaks at the end of every print line is maddening)
Re: Edge displays “123456” in PDF but prints “114447”
#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
The built-in MacOS support for PDF is great. Any app that can print to a printer can print to a PDF file. And the Preview app, despite its name, can edit PDFs to add annotations (text, graphics), add or remove pages, etc. There's also a feature by which you sign your name on a piece of paper, hold it up to the camera, and it will capture it and insert it into a the document. It's convenient that these are built in an…
I worked on Preview at Apple from 2008-2011 and created the signature capture feature. It's always cool to hear people talk about it!
Thanks! I use that feature almost every day. We try to be a paperless home so being able to sign PDF forms and return them without printing is one of my single favourite features of OSX. We even bought our house using that feature for all parties to sign it around my MacBook.
Re: Edge displays “123456” in PDF but prints “114447”
#49The PDF "format" never fails to amuse me. Check out the talk "OMG WTF PDF" [0] from the 27. Chaos Communication Congress, it's eye opening. 0: https://media.ccc.de/v/27c3-4221-en-omg_wtf_pdf
You would probably like the James Mickens video "Life As A Developer: My Code Does Not Work Because I Am A Victim Of Complex Societal Factors That Are Beyond My Control"[0]. He starts talking about the Adobe PDF reader at 19:30.
Re: Edge displays “123456” in PDF but prints “114447”
#50Maybe we really should bring https://pdfviewer.io to Windows. Looks like the default app is somewhat crap :P
Why doesn't everyone use FoxitPDF in $current_year ?