9/3/2023 0 Comments Mac os preview not workingThis is a very frustrating problem, and it's sad to see it has persisted so long. So I can't say I fully understand it, but I've learned that I don't want to do Save As after downloading a PDF manual - something in the saving puts the main portion of the document (but not the text in the figures) into a corrupted format that makes it unsearchable. When I threw out the non-searchable version, and went back to the Downloads copy and simply moved it to the desktop, that version was still searchable. So something is going on with the Save As command. Selecting Save As, I saved the document to my desktop (the original was in the Downloads folder), and lo and behold, that version of the document was no longer searchable. Doing nothing more, that document was actually searchable, and correctly supported copy and paste. So I went back to the original website and downloaded the manual. When I copy and paste from the section that is searchable, I get the original word correctly copied. When I copy and paste a word from the section of the PDF that is not searchable, I get the following illegible characters: ␣␣␣␣␣␣␣. But your reply started me thinking, and I ran a test. I can highlight each individual word or character, which would not be possible in a scanned document. But the problem I've been having is with the text-based PDFs. Well, you are correct, many PDFs are scanned documents that are not searchable.
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