PDF export not highlighting text properly

[hanmam]

Steps to reproduce

In a sandbox vault, change the text font to Lora. Export a file to PDF. When highlighting the pdf, the text does not align with the highlight.

Did you follow the troubleshooting guide? [Y/N]

Yes.

Environment

SYSTEM INFO:
Obsidian version: v1.4.16
Installer version: v1.4.16
Operating system: Darwin Kernel Version 23.1.0: Mon Oct 9 21:28:12 PDT 2023; root:xnu-10002.41.9~6/RELEASE_ARM64_T8103 23.1.0
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[WhiteNoise]

I don’t think there’s anything we can do about this. Maybe it’s not even the PDF’s problem but the reader used. Have you tried adobe acrobat?

[hanmam]

Acrobat does work, but it is definitely weird that Preview (Mac default PDF reader) has this issue, even with Korean. Do you have any hunches on what the issue might be?

[ariehen]

The reversed text when pasted issue was fixed, but these two topics (below) seem related.

I haven’t checked in a while, but I saw this odd text selection (selected highlight looks like an underline, selection goes from right to left in certain cases when selecting with the mouse) with some fonts using macOS’s Preview app.

You can use a PDF export snippet to force a font that works if it’s different from the font you use in the editor. Something like this, with the font name being exactly as it appears on your system:

@media print {
    .print {
        --font-text: 'Victor Mono';
  }
}

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Exported PDF on macOS produces backward text with copy+paste

Thanks for checking. Yeah, selecting text acts odd with these exported PDFs in Preview. It’s like text is selected from the left of your insert point only. If you select right-to-left it kinda works (but still pastes backwards). The solution seems to be here, but not sure if it was ever implemented; fell through the cracks with the move to 1.0, etc-> After some googling we believe this probably a combination of Chromium, the font that gets embedded, and Apple. With most of the blame likely o…

Export to PDF - searchable only when word is typed backwards

After some googling we believe this probably a combination of Chromium, the font that gets embedded, and Apple. With most of the blame likely on Apple. We invite you to file a bug report to Apple. For the time being, we are going to revert to old font “Inter” just for printing as a workaround for this issue (0.15.10).

[hanmam]

Thank you so much, the snippet is very useful!