I just bought a new Lenovo tablet and installed Obsidian on it (so the installation is clean). When I try to use the PDF viewer, selecting text is impossible. When I try to select a single word, it only selects part of the word. Then, if I try to select the whole paragraph, the selection zone starts to jump chaotically. Moreover, I am experiencing the same problem on my Android smartphone client (Samsung). Thus, the problem is reproducible with a fresh install on both independent devices and with different files.
Here’s how it looks on the tablet. I’m working with the same file in Obsidian Desktop, and everything is fine, so the text layout is attached to the PDF properly.
After searching for additional information, I began to suspect that this is not a bug, but rather a limitation of the PDF viewer on the mobile app. Is this the case? Is selection in working properly for anyone on mobile apps?
I discovered that it’s not an issue with Obsidian, but rather with pdf.js. The problem occurs when the rescaling/zooming setting is enabled on your device. After I reset to the default values on my Lenovo tablet, everything started to function properly.
Hello! Can you elaborate on how you were able to fix it? I’m facing the same issue on Samsung tablet, I’ve looked through settings, nothing relating to pdf.