<html> <head> <base href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/"> </head> <body> <div> <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_NEW " title="NEW - PDF export: Whitespaces in contents removed" href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=130008#c26">Comment # 26</a> on <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_NEW " title="NEW - PDF export: Whitespaces in contents removed" href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=130008">bug 130008</a> from <a class="email" href="mailto:christoph_egger@gmx.de" title="christoph_egger@gmx.de">christoph_egger@gmx.de</a> <pre>(In reply to eisa01 from <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=130008#c21">comment #21</a>) > 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 <a href="http://bugs.documentfoundation.org/attachment.cgi?id=160307" name="attach_160307" title="screenshot of "pdiff express 2" showing the diff between pdf from attachment 160267 (left side) and pdf from attachment 160268 (right side)">attachment 160307</a> <a href="http://bugs.documentfoundation.org/attachment.cgi?id=160307&action=edit" title="screenshot of "pdiff express 2" showing the diff between pdf from attachment 160267 (left side) and pdf from attachment 160268 (right side)">[details]</a>). 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?</pre> </div> <hr> You are receiving this mail because: <ul> <li>You are the assignee for the bug.</li> </ul> </body> </html>