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Preview isn’t breaking files by reading them, as I understand it, people are saving files with Preview and over-writing their ABBY compatible pdf. Just because
by birdyrooster 6y ago
Preview isn’t breaking files by reading them, as I understand it, people are saving files with Preview and over-writing their ABBY compatible pdf. Just because the last four bytes of a file name is “.pdf” doesn’t mean anything that opens files with that suffix will work.
PDF is not a bitmap, it’s a script like HTML or JS.
People understand browser incompatibility but some how this is unconscionable.
- refulgentis 6y agoI see, the chain isn't as simple as bytes -> Preview -> unreadable bytes: rather, bytes -> Preview, edit -> unreadable bytes. Is that accurate?
- birdyrooster 6y agoYep they are flushing new bits to disk when preview is instructed to save.
- fastball 6y agoNo, the bytes are still readable by Preview, it's just the OCR meta that is apparently no longer copy-pastable. No reason why you can't just run this through ABBYY FineReader again and get the exact same OCR you got the first time, so I think "irreversible" is definitely a stretch.