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But it was really evident to me just this past week as I began to work heavily with some texts so maybe the update to 10.8.2 in early February had soemthing to do with it instead / as well.

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My hunch is that with the update to 10.8.1 in October last year, something regarding the Unicode PDF libraries went a bit funny, as it was not long after that I started seeing the issue (again, before I could easily edit Chinese PDFs and re-save them without difficulty). I've forwarded the information to the Apple Care support folks I've been working with trying to figure out the problem. It seems like a bug that Apple should be told about.' That's something that might be done when special, non-standard characters or glyphs were used, but using the 'private' space is not 'portable' and certainly not necessary in this case. For example, UNICODE U+662F '是' in the original PDF is being encoded as U+10FC54 in the exported PDF. What I am seeing is characters are being re-mapped to code points in the 'private use' UNICODE plane. I can't even OCR it because this problem also affects my OCR software, as if it can't get access to the fonts needed to embed in the recognized PDF.Īny other thoughts? I'd appreciate any you have.įor what it is worth, I just got the response below from another forum I posted the question on ('.

It is only when I alter them and then save or export from Preview, Skim, Nomad, etc., that the character information gets stripped out and I'm left with a document that one can read but cannot search. So, that developer I mentioned in the first thread who said this is an OS X issue may indeed be correct.Īnd just to be clear, I have confirmed that the PDF's I working with do have the fonts embedded already. I just completely reinstalled the OS thinking that this would fix the issue by installing all the original fonts again, if MacKeeper did indeed remove the fonts these PDF programs use when editing or saving PDF files. Though, I can't quite confirm that this has played a role. I'm not sure what changed, but I was suspecting MacKeeper and their 'language cluster' cleaning feature, where it 'helps' you by removing unused fonts. The problem I mentioned with Preview, etc., is actually a new one one that has become a big problem for me only in the last few weeks. if it can copy a short section of text Ok, then it means the characters are recognized by the PDF reader and I can search the document, which is my main goal.) Yeah, I understand that PDFs are not designed to work like word-processing files, etc., and the need to have the Chinese text copy over well is really just to prove that the document is searchable (i.e. what I think I might do is use PDF Expert for everything and then when OCR is needed I switch to PDFPen Pro.Thanks Tom. Went through a 400 page PDF document and looked at RAM Usage which was at 1.5GB. does anyone have any negative things about PDFElement? To me it seems like its very good and has all features I need especially with their new version.Įdit 2: After some more trial, it seems that PDFElement is hogging a lot of resources.

It has diverse advanced tools that make it easy to rotate, crop, and scale PDF. It supports the editing of images and texts on PDFs.

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It is very easy to use this software to scan documents, and this is mostly because it comes with an optical character recognition (OCR) feature.

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I must say PDFPen Pro is really unintuitive to use whereas PDF Expert is great although no OCR and PDFElement seems to be amazing and does everything. This is rated as one of the best PDF annotators on Mac. Any thoughts or advice?Įdit: So after doing the trials. I currently use Acrobat Pro but I will soon be cancelling my subscription as its just too expensive for me and so I want the best alternative to Acrobat Pro. I'm basically stuck and not sure which to go with. As for user interfaces I really like PDF Expert. I can see that PDF Expert doesn't have OCR capabilities whereas the other two do. My needs are to sign and fill forms, edit them, and also occasionally use OCR when needed. So I've been doing a lot of research on the best PDF editor/viewer for me.