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pdf text select in preview not working after High Sierra upgrade

The text select function appears to not work in preview of pdf documents after upgrading to High Sierra.

Area select still works, the pdf is not password protected and it is not an image based pdf. I think it's a bug, any help out there?

Cheers, Hans

MacBook Air (13-inch, Early 2014), macOS High Sierra (10.13.1)

Posted on Nov 15, 2017 3:46 PM

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Posted on Nov 15, 2017 8:34 PM

Before High Sierra, if it was an image based PDF, then the text selector would highlight the entire document now it just shows the mouse pointer arrow as if there's nothing to select. The MS Excel output hasn't changed so it must be on the Mac OS side. Anyway, a fix would be great but I'm now printing to a PDF printer, which is just another two clicks extra. Life goes on...

Thanks for your thoughts.

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