1. In one of my documents Editor displays the Type 1 font "SabonLTStd-Roman" in bold. The same font in another document is properly displays as standard.
2. Furthermore, when I enable "Colored Search Results" in the advanced search pane then all preview text becomes bold. This happens in any document, so it is likely not related to the 1. issue.
While extraction a single page to create an example document for you I found the culprit for the bold search font: bookmarks! If I do not extract bookmarks then search doesn't go bold, if I export even only the bookmark for the single extracted page then search gets bold. And if I create a new bookmark for *your* example document then it happens, too.
I still can't reproduce this. I must be doing something wrong.
If the behaviour is dependent on the presence of bookmarks maybe you can produce for us two similar PDFs, one showing the effect and one that does not? At least that would cut to the chase on the "reproduce this" part?
Does that seem reasonable?
Best regards
Paul O'Rorke
Tracker Support North America
http://www.tracker-software.com
Turns out that proximity has to be set to anything other than simple adjacent words the bolt search results to happen. And of course you need to enable "Colored Search Results".
Last edited by Timur Born on Fri May 06, 2022 11:15 pm, edited 1 time in total.
I also sent you an example (extracted page) PDF for the bold Type1 font problem, that wasn't bolt in earlier Editor versions (as far as I remember) and isn't bolt in another PDF file.
My fault for posting two bold font related issues that likely are not related in a single thread. No wonder things got confused.
I sent an e-mail to support@pdf-xchange.com just 1 hour ago. Titled "Wrong bold text" with a link to this very thread and an appended PDF called "Bolt Font Example". I now sent it again.
The 1 pt border does *not* seem to be the problem. For comparison, here is the first printing file of the same book, also using a 1 pt border:
Compared to the second printing file:
But I just noticed that Editor prints each character of the second printing twice on top of each other, once with 1 pt border and once without border. As a consequence you need to press cursor right twice when you try to navigate the text via cursor keys. This does not happen with Adobe or the first printing of the file.
First character:
Second character:
Both selected the same T in the document. I navigated between the two stacked versions via cursor keys:
Every (or almost every) piece of text in this document is duplicated.
The first time it is rendered with just a border of width 0 and a second time with a fill.
Width 0 by PDF specification means that the border should be rendered 1 pixel wide no matter of zoom level. That's what the Editor did and that causes that 'bolding' effect on the text. In the next build, we will render this border with some additional transparency to make it less visible. It is not by the spec but looks like other apps went this way.
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Thanks for the analysis. I will report this back to the creator of the PDF as I suspect this to be unintentional (1st edition file doesn't have this).
Both Acrobat Reader and Foxit do print these pages more bold than their 1st edition version, just not as overwhelming bold as Editor does.
The other difference is how the "Select Text" tool handles the duplicate text. Where Acrobat and Foxit use one cursor step per character, Editor uses two.
