Thanks for your reply, Christiaan. In answer to your question, yes, that's just
what I meant. In terms of the PDFKit it looks like you're right: I replicated
the issue with Preview and I don't get the issue with Acrobat Pro. I'm very
glad to hear this is an exception, though I'm still curious to know if others
have experienced a similar problem. I'm wondering if there's a way to
anticipate what PDFs might be prone to this sort of behavior.
Josh
> Hello,> > My apologies in advance if this has been covered before. I didn't
> find it discussed in my forum search under the terms I selected.> > I have at
> least one PDF (an article downloaded from project muse) that becomes
> unsearchable after I save with the"export - as PDF - with embedded notes"
> option. That is, after I attempt to shift from Skim format to a format in
> which my annotations are available to other PDF applications. For those who
> might be interested and have access, the article is available at this link:>
> https://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_middle_east_womens_studies/v005/5.2.barzilai-lumbroso.pdf>
> > The issue is repeatable with this item, but is not occurring with some of
> the other articles I recently worked with. That said, it has me concerned, as
> I only became aware of the phenomenon when searching this particular article.
> I generally annotate, export as PDF, and store my articles in the DevonThink
> Pro Office database, where I often search them in aggregate rather than on an
> article-by-article basis. So I might not know if there are other instances of
> similar behavior. > > Is this behavior familiar and, if so, do you have any
> suggestions for dealing with it? For the time being I will re-annotate this
> particular PDF in Acrobat Pro or another program, since I need to have the
> annotations visible across a variety of platforms, but I would prefer to
> stick to the Skim-based workflow that I have.> > Thanks in advance for any
> thoughts you might be able to offer.> > Josh
Do you mean that when you open a file that was exported with embedded notes it
becomes unsearchable? I have not heard about that. But it is also something we
cannot do anything about. It's really Apple's problem. That is because the PDF
is saved by Apple's PDFKit, which for us is a black box, we have no influence
over how that is done, and regularly has problems (that's an important reason
why we don't use it by default.) For sure, this must be an exception. Also, it
would be true for other PDFKit based apps, like Preview.
Christiaan
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