Thread: PDF output is searchable with Adobe Reader but not with Mac Preview
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Old 02-18-2015, 03:33 PM   #10
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Originally Posted by t04sty View Post
So close, but this is a dealbreaker. A PDF that isn't searchable in MacOS Preview and lacks the ability to copy content is useless to me. ...
Then a lot of PDFs produced by a lot of apps will also be problems. MacOS's Preview supports only a modest subset of PDF attributes and functionality. It is particularly limited in its font support.

IMHO, Preview is too poor a viewer to use it for PDF on a regular basis. The only time I view a PDF in Preview is to see if clients using a Mac with only Preview as their viewer will have difficulty. When I view a PDF for myself on a Mac I use a good viewer, usually Adobe Reader.
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