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WalrusDragonOnABike@reddthat.com 23 hours agoPrint to pdf generally loses the text and just makes it an image though. Which can balloon size and prevent ctrl+f without running ocr on it and saving an additional layer with more mistakes than the original.
BanMe@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
Are you sure you don’t have “print as image” enabled there? It should keep it as a layered PDF, not rasterizing.
WalrusDragonOnABike@reddthat.com 17 hours ago
I probably did. Think I’ve had some things not print correctly without that on an actual printer so I turned that on sometimes?
dingus@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
I deliberately use the print as image feature if I don’t want someone to be able to select text or search the document (like if I’m sending something with sensitive info as an attachment to an email). Most of the time, I have that option disabled so the document can be searchable and text can be copied from it.
RaccoonBall@lemmy.ca 3 hours ago
fwiw its trivial to OCR it. single click in many pdf software.
but I guess it slows down some people