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Steps to reproduce
- Create a text note.
- Export to PDF
- Open the PDF
- Highlight and copy text
Expected result
the copied text should not be reversed
Actual result
the copied text is in reverse order
Environment
- Operating system: MacOS Monterey 12.6.2
- Debug info:
SYSTEM INFO:
Obsidian version: v1.1.9
Installer version: v0.14.6
Operating system: Darwin Kernel Version 21.6.0: Sun Nov 6 23:31:16 PST 2022; root:xnu-8020.240.14~1/RELEASE_X86_64 21.6.0
Login status: logged in
Catalyst license: supporter
Insider build toggle: off
Live preview: on
Legacy editor: off
Base theme: dark
Community theme: none
Snippets enabled: 0
Restricted mode: off
Plugins installed: 7
Plugins enabled: 6
1: Find orphaned files and broken links v1.8.0
2: Advanced Tables v0.18.1
3: Dynamic Table of Contents v0.0.27
4: Paste image rename v1.5.0
5: Table of Contents v0.1.3
6: Image Toolkit v1.3.1
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Additional information
Once I found a similar bug report (archived?) where the response was something to the effect of “blame Apple for this issue”?
That was some time back and certainly should be fixable by now. Note that Joplin generates PDFs with properly copied text.