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Hi,

I have posted here several times before about the same ongoing issue I am having with placed PDFs in Publisher exported from Sketchup Layout. I have noticed that original PDFs that are placed into Publisher come through fine now. The issue occurs when you try to edit the original PDF inside Publisher (by double clicking on it) and you try to add or remove lines or text etc, and then return to the publisher document the PDF Passthrough no longer holds true, and the document reverts back to the previous issues of loss of text and or lines etc.

This is a major problem, as any necessary minor edits etc. to the original PDF cannot be performed within Publisher itself, even though Publisher allows you make these edits there is an immediate break in the benefit of using PDF Passthrough when the edits are complete.

I have included a sample PDF image that you can place onto a blank A3 document to see for yourself. Once placed everything is fine, but if you make ANY edits at all by double clicking into the original PDF the Passthrough feature fails, and negates the whole purpose of being able to make edits to the original PDF inside Publisher.

...and yes, the same issue applies for new documents as well as trying to modify old documents.

2021.08.11_PDF sample.pdf

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The whole point of Passthrough is to provide an accurate rendering of the original PDF. A PDF can be edited (Interpreted) or Passthrough, but not both. If you edit it, it is no longer the original, and cannot be rendered accurately, and cannot be Passthrough.

-- Walt
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So please tell me what is the point in ALLOWING the ORIGINAL PDF to be edited within Publisher if it wont be interpreted correctly when switching back from the edited window into the original Publisher file?..

If there is an allowance to do edits to the original PDFs within Publisher, don't you think it should interpret them correctly??? Currently it does not.

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5 hours ago, moovme said:

don't you think it should interpret them correctly???

In a perfect world yes, but no. Basically the PDF is more or less interpreted correctly until the font problem kicks in (among others). Imagine a PDF with a subsetted font - means not all characters are embedded - and you edit the PDF and want to type in characters not available. How should Serif handle that? The Passthrough feature feels naturally to me, as I was used to it from CS6 (has it changed in CC?).

The chance to edit a PDF is a great feature and I don't want to miss it. Best of all would be if the Affinities would ask before editing, to convert fonts not installed on the system to convert them to curves or leave as is.

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