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If you annotate PDFs in Preview it is very common to find that they disappear when the PDF is shared with someone else (e.g. when giving feedback on a document)
by jrk 2y ago
If you annotate PDFs in Preview it is very common to find that they disappear when the PDF is shared with someone else (e.g. when giving feedback on a document), or even when it’s reopened in Preview in the future. Frequent inexplicable data loss is not great.
But indeed, as a pure reader, Preview remains mostly fine.
- mulderc 2y agoAnnotate all the time and have not hit this issue.
- animal_spirits 2y agoI have found this issue. We run into problems when we have to upload the pdf to software that performs OCR, the annotated text does not get picked up. To fix this, in Preview we have to export the file as a PDF
- TylerE 2y agoThat sounds like a cloud drive screwing you over or something.
- trauco 2y agoYes, this happened to me enough times (not with files stored in the cloud) that I stopped using Preview for annotations altogether.