Preview in macOS Big Sur is destroying PDFs

Re:Preview in macOS Big Sur is destroying PDFs by matrixagent on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @04:57PM (#25449337)

In theory that is probably true – in my actual scenario I can't run them through ABBYY again because of the limitations of the bundled version. It only accepts PDFs coming from the scanner software, so running these through ABBYY again would give me an error message. I'd have to buy the full version to be able to try out that workaround.

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Re:Preview in macOS Big Sur is destroying PDFs by non-nil on Thursday December 17, 2020 @03:27AM (#25453722)

On a totally not entirely unrelated note, I have found ExifTool[0] to be quite useful for many tasks. Especially in combination with a bash alias or simple Automator action, to be used in the services menu, or as a droplet or folder action. [0]https://exiftool.org/TagNames/PDF.html

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Re:Preview in macOS Big Sur is destroying PDFs by matrixagent on Thursday December 17, 2020 @07:02AM (#25454805)

That's exactly what I'm planning to explore as a workaround to remove the blank pages until ABBYY and/or Apple sort this out. :)

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