Big Sur 11.6
Preview 11.0
Redaction is messed up again. In addition to redacted areas, other areas of the document are redacted at random. Having to go back to drawing a black square over redacted content then saving and exporting.
Mac Pro, macOS 10.14
Boot into Safe Mode according to Start up your Mac in safe mode - Apple Support and test to see if the problem persists. Reboot normally and test again.
NOTE: Safe Mode boot can take up to 3 - 5 minutes as it's doing the following;
• Verifies your startup disk and attempts to repair directory issues, if needed
• Loads only required kernel extensions (prevents 3rd party kernel/extensions from loading)
• Prevents Startup Items and Login Items from opening automatically
• Disables user-installed fonts
• Deletes font caches, kernel cache, and other system cache files
Not at all. 95% of the documents we redact are scanned here in our office. The file never existed before we created them with the scanner.
Okay, then I amend my title...."Redaction of images in Preview not working again...".
Feedback submitted.
As I've tried to explain. I thought "Select text to permanently remove it from view" was fairly clear. What's not so clear to me is why when dealing with scans saved as PDFs, the cursor changes to a crosshair allowing one to draw over an area of the screen.
All I know is, redacting text does work as described when dealing with a PDF that actually contains text.
PDFs, original and redacted…
I see. Well that would explain it. You can't redact text in an image. So unless the scans were run through OCR software you can never redact them.
Redaction in Preview not working again...
