Dawid.p Posted March 6, 2020 Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Rostron Posted March 7, 2020 Share 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 10, Affinity Photo 1.10.5 Designer 1.10.5 and Publisher 1.10.5 (mainly Photo), now ex-Adobe CC CPU: AMD A6-3670. RAM: 16 GB DDR3 @ 666MHz, Graphics: 2047MB NVIDIA GeForce GT 630 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dawid.p Posted March 7, 2020 Author Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mwdiers Posted March 8, 2020 Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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