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Would "print to PDF" be a good enough scenario for most people putting a square over the text? I admittedly haven't looked hard enough into it but theoretically
by core-utility 5y ago
Would "print to PDF" be a good enough scenario for most people putting a square over the text? I admittedly haven't looked hard enough into it but theoretically it should be flattening it.
- tomp 5y agoNo, because “Print to PDF” preserves text (i.e. text is selectable in the resulting .pdf document), so it’s gonna be selectable behind a black square as well. Although I just checked, MacOS Preview has a feature “redact” that (is supposed to) actually redact text. Well done!
- core-utility 5y agoOn MacOS 10.15 Preview, I drew an "annotated" black box over a paragraph that was recognized as text. I exported it in two ways, 1) "Export as PDF" and 2) Print -> Save as PDF. Both results did not include the underlying text under the box. That's not to say it's definitely not there, but it's at least something.