[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 130008] PDF export: Whitespaces in contents removed

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=130008

--- Comment #26 from christoph_egger at gmx.de ---
(In reply to eisa01 from comment #21)
> Ok,
> first of all you can use Export -> Export as PDF to avoid the rotation bug.
> 
> However, that does not avoid the issue
> 
> I also did an export test from LO on Windows, and that resulting file also
> misses spaces when shown in macOS Preview on Mojave. As such, this is not a
> mac bug
> 
> However, in e.g., the Edge PDF viewer I'm able to copy paste the output just
> fine with spaces.
> 
> I guess this is a question whether LO produce valid PDF output or not, or if
> this is a bug in Preview? Second question is then if we should fix the
> output to be able to be read by Preview or not
> 
> (the now save as PDF in print dialog produce quite broken output when copy
> pasted due to the rotation, lots of extra spaces)

I attached a screenshot from "pdiff express 2" comparing your two pdf's
(see screenshot from attachment 160307).
It shows that both pdf's have *no* whitespaces in the text layer.

Question: Where does "Edge PDF viewer" get the whitespaces from when you copy
the text?

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