No this is not correct.
ABBY hasn’t updated their software for Big Sur, i.e. ABBY themselves say it hasn’t been updated yet and is not supported by them on Big Sur.
That’s what unsupported means. It has nothing to do with whether Apple supports it.
ABBY hasn’t updated their software for Big Sur, i.e. ABBY themselves say it hasn’t been updated yet and is not supported by them on Big Sur.
That’s what unsupported means. It has nothing to do with whether Apple supports it.
I open it with preview. It opens fine. I close it and open it again. It opens fine.
I open it a third time and make a small arrow pointing to something and save it (as I would with ANY OTHER PDF).
It breaks.
I'm not using ABBYY. I've never heard of it. It's not on my system. It's just a PDF file that I got sent.
Now what?
Nothing excuses ABBYY if their PDFs are corrupt.
The PDF works fine before saving in Preview. As in, Preview itself will render the file perfectly fine with OCR. By all accounts, the PDF is completely valid and uncorrupted at this point. Making a change to the file and saving it in Preview is what causes the corruption.
So how the hell could you possibly excuse Preview and call this a ABBYY issue when Preview is the one that causes the issue?
That's absurd to the highest level.
Is it? I don’t see any accounts showing this to be a fact.
I think the disagreement here is that there's no evidence of this. Preview's error handling could very well be interpreting bad data and allowing the file to be opened. The question becomes, then, should Preview continue to propagate that bad data on save or should it try to correct it with the possibility that it corrupts just that data. If the PDF was not in-spec prior to Preview touching it but it is in-spec after Preview saves it, is it a good thing that Preview "fixed" the PDF file and made it "proper" or is it bad because it technically lost/corrupted data?
In other words, what is the "right" thing for a software to do in this case? Keep bad data and leave the file as "bad" or fix the issue to make a valid PDF and, as a side effect, remove the "bad" data?
They shake it up a lot
They hand me said bottle of coke
I open it, and get sprayed by fizz
THAT IS CLEARLY THE COCA-COLA COMPANIES FAULT!