jmwellborn Posted April 25, 2019 Share Posted April 25, 2019 I had been using Find and Replace successfully in v. 283 and previous builds to locate each line break created by opening a PDF as an editable document and then replacing each with a single space. Today I tried this repeatedly with v. 293 and have discovered that Find and Replace is not working at all. I just experimented with v. 283 and replaced several hundred line breaks in the same multi-page opened PDF. v. 293 could not find a single line break in that same document. Something fishy here!! (MAC Sierra 10.12.6) 24" iMAC Apple M1 chip, 8-core CPU, 8-core GPU, 16 GB unified memory, 1 TB SSD storage, Ventura 13.6. Photo, Publisher, Designer 1.10.5, and 2.3. MacBook Pro 13" 2020, Apple M1 chip, 16GB unified memory, 256GB SSD storage, Ventura 13.6. Publisher, Photo, Designer 1.10.5, and 2.1.1. iPad Pro 12.9 2020 (4th Gen. IOS 16.6.1); Apple pencil. Wired and bluetooth mice and keyboards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted April 25, 2019 Share Posted April 25, 2019 Just now, jmwellborn said: I had been using Find and Replace successfully in v. 283 and previous builds to locate each line break created by opening a PDF as an editable document and then replacing each with a single space. Today I tried this repeatedly with v. 293 and have discovered that Find and Replace is not working at all. I just experimented with v. 283 and replaced several hundred line breaks in the same multi-page opened PDF. v. 293 could not find a single line break in that same document. Something fishy here!! (MAC Sierra 10.12.6) Can you supply a sample PDF that demonstrates the problem? -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmwellborn Posted April 25, 2019 Author Share Posted April 25, 2019 2 hours ago, walt.farrell said: Can you supply a sample PDF that demonstrates the problem? If the developers would like to see the PDF I will be glad to send it to them via dropbox. It is a personal family history and not something I wish to post in the forums. 24" iMAC Apple M1 chip, 8-core CPU, 8-core GPU, 16 GB unified memory, 1 TB SSD storage, Ventura 13.6. Photo, Publisher, Designer 1.10.5, and 2.3. MacBook Pro 13" 2020, Apple M1 chip, 16GB unified memory, 256GB SSD storage, Ventura 13.6. Publisher, Photo, Designer 1.10.5, and 2.1.1. iPad Pro 12.9 2020 (4th Gen. IOS 16.6.1); Apple pencil. Wired and bluetooth mice and keyboards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted April 25, 2019 Share Posted April 25, 2019 OK. I thought perhaps you had a more generic PDF you could demonstrate it with, but if not I'm sure they'll provide an upload link for you. -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Jon P Posted April 30, 2019 Staff Share Posted April 30, 2019 Hi @jmwellborn, I can search for them in the PDF i got from you on another thread, are you still struggling in the latest build? If so could you clarify to me how you are looking for them? Thanks! Serif Europe Ltd. - www.serif.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmwellborn Posted April 30, 2019 Author Share Posted April 30, 2019 1 hour ago, Jon P said: Hi @jmwellborn, I can search for them in the PDF i got from you on another thread, are you still struggling in the latest build? If so could you clarify to me how you are looking for them? Thanks! Since I cannot open the PDFs in v. 305 with "Favour editable text over fidelity" I cannot check here, so would be glad if you would use either PDF I sent you to check. I am trying to open PDFs exported from former work (usually text-only but some with images) done with InDesign, Apple Pages, or that rather unsatisfactory iCalamus (very temporarily used) in order to edit them with fresh material. So the first thing I do after opening a PDF with both options checked, is to do a Find and Replace to change all line breaks (and there are thousands!) with a single space. I use the "Line Break" option in the FIND box, and then highlight the REPLACE box and enter a single click on the space bar. That seems to be more uniformly successful than the Non-breaking space option. Then I click on REPLACE ALL. It had been working perfectly. After that is done, I next link all the text frames -- very tediously! -- so that the material will flow properly, then save the document as an .afpub file. I then open it, set up master pages, reset margins if I need, and I am ready to go. It has been working beautifully, by the way!!!! And many thanks to you all! 24" iMAC Apple M1 chip, 8-core CPU, 8-core GPU, 16 GB unified memory, 1 TB SSD storage, Ventura 13.6. Photo, Publisher, Designer 1.10.5, and 2.3. MacBook Pro 13" 2020, Apple M1 chip, 16GB unified memory, 256GB SSD storage, Ventura 13.6. Publisher, Photo, Designer 1.10.5, and 2.1.1. iPad Pro 12.9 2020 (4th Gen. IOS 16.6.1); Apple pencil. Wired and bluetooth mice and keyboards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmwellborn Posted April 30, 2019 Author Share Posted April 30, 2019 Oops. Meant to say I link the text frames after opening the .afpub resulting from the PDF. Chalk it up to spring pollen! 24" iMAC Apple M1 chip, 8-core CPU, 8-core GPU, 16 GB unified memory, 1 TB SSD storage, Ventura 13.6. Photo, Publisher, Designer 1.10.5, and 2.3. MacBook Pro 13" 2020, Apple M1 chip, 16GB unified memory, 256GB SSD storage, Ventura 13.6. Publisher, Photo, Designer 1.10.5, and 2.1.1. iPad Pro 12.9 2020 (4th Gen. IOS 16.6.1); Apple pencil. Wired and bluetooth mice and keyboards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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