Andrew McIntyre Posted February 7, 2020 Share Posted February 7, 2020 I have some pdf legal documents that must not be altered in any way - I just want to open them in any of the Affinity programs and add highlights and comments in the margins. Unfortunately all three programs in the Affinity suite convert the pdfs to editable versions with an Arial font and alter the formatting. The only way I have been able to get round this is to convert the pdfs to raster files (jpgs) in Photoshop before importing them. This is all rather long-winded - is there a hidden option somewhere that allows pdfs to be converted to raster images 'on the fly' while they are being opened so that their visible integrity is not impaired in any way? Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeW Posted February 7, 2020 Share Posted February 7, 2020 No, there is no current means of opening, or placing, pdfs so they are not editable documents. The only way to not use a bitmap of suffivient resolution would be converting type to curves outside of Affinity applications and importing those. Or use an application that doesn't have such limitations. We all are awaiting what is called pdf passthrough to come. Catshill 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fixx Posted February 8, 2020 Share Posted February 8, 2020 Why not use Acrobat Reader to add comments and hilites? It is made for that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fritz_H Posted February 8, 2020 Share Posted February 8, 2020 @Andrew McIntyre I think I do not understand the problem... The file ist just a file is just a file - there is no "original"-file like with paper-documents where you have the single one original and the copies... If you duplicate the "original" file you have 2 "original" files and so on.. Why not add your annotations to a copy of the original?Or did I misunderstand the issue and it´s technically impossible to add annotation because this PDF-feature is locked? In that case: can you print that protected PDF-file? if you can: print it via a PDF-Printer to a new, unprotected PDF and add your annotations to this new file. (I recommend PDFCreator* and PDF-XChange Editor** - both free, even for commercial use) kind regards Fritz* https://www.pdfforge.org/pdfcreator ** https://www.tracker-software.com/product/pdf-xchange-editor Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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