PDF files do not open with "Group lines of text into text frames" set TRUE

[Paul Mudditt]

The new Publisher on iPad is completely hamstrung by not being able to open PDF files in a sensible manner, the desktop PDF Option, "Group lines of text into text frames" should either be controllable in preferences or set to TRUE to allow PDF files to be imported in a sensible fashion as text frames not simply lines of text. 

There is a way to achieve this on the iPad but makes the user have to jump through hoops and use embedded layers to enable this basic function, which also causes many crashes of the app so is the non-ideal way of importing PDF files correctly.

As a desktop publishing app, I consider this a bug.

 

 

[Mork handley]

AGREED!! Hamstrung is the word. As PDF is the bigggest document format in the world, the inability for Publisher to edit them properly seems like a major oversight. As others have expressed, the app is useless to me until this is fixed. 

[NathanC]

Hi @Paul Mudditt,

The lack of PDF options (including this function) on import is currently logged with the developers, I've passed your comments along.

[Ash]

We have now added the options available when importing a PDF on desktop to the iPad versions in the 2.1 beta. It would be great if you wanted to try it out in the beta and let us know what you think - you can sign up to the beta program here.

 

[DM1]

 

On 2/15/2023 at 11:31 PM, Ash said:

It would be great if you wanted to try it out in the beta and let us know what you think

Thanks Ash, the addition of this new feature makes the importing and editing large PDFs on the iPad much, much better. Paragraphs do tend to have paragraph marks at the end of each line of text but these are relatively easily removed with search and replace.

[Mork handley]

Any idea when 2.1 might be released?  Agree with DM1: being able to import PDFs, in a way which allows you to actually edit the text, will make this app useful to a great many more people. Thanks for including this important feature.

[DM1]

On 3/9/2023 at 9:47 PM, Mork handley said:

Any idea when 2.1 might be released?

The public beta with this feature is available to users now.🙂

[Mork handley]

Thanks very much DM1.  If there’s no approx date for the release of 2.1, it would be good to know if files created on the beta will be compatible with the full version?  I’m really keen to finally start using this app, but it’s of little use until it can import documents to work on. Many thanks

[walt.farrell]

2 hours ago, Mork handley said:

If there’s no approx date for the release of 2.1,

There usually isn't.

2 hours ago, Mork handley said:

it would be good to know if files created on the beta will be compatible with the full version?

They should be, but there are no guarantees.