Dawid.p Posted March 6, 2020 Posted March 6, 2020 how to save pdf to be able to select text and copy it. affinfy designer 1.8 Mac 10.15 Quote
John Rostron Posted March 7, 2020 Posted March 7, 2020 What software are you using to read the pdf file in order to copy the text? Your text should be readable unless it has been rasterised before saving as pdf. John Quote Windows 11, Affinity Photo 2.4.2 Designer 2.4.2 and Publisher 2.4.2 (mainly Photo). CPU: Intel Core i5 8500 @ 3.00GHz. RAM: 32.0GB DDR4 @ 1063MHz, Graphics: 2047MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050
Dawid.p Posted March 7, 2020 Author Posted March 7, 2020 I'm using Adobe to read pdf. I did not rasterize the text. the text after saving to pdf cannot be copied. Quote
mwdiers Posted March 8, 2020 Posted March 8, 2020 (edited) This is a known issue and is fixed in the beta. The problem is specific to Mac Catalina. Exported PDFs have their fonts converted to outlines. Here is the current Publisher beta which fixes the problem: Edited March 8, 2020 by mwdiers Quote
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