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Fully editable PDF output, including text #48419

Open bkepl opened 2 years ago

bkepl commented 2 years ago

Feature description

A recent update features line-pattern fills being exported as vectors, thus making these fills editable in the output PDF. Text should also be editable in the PDF. The choice is given to the user to export text as outlines or as text objects. This implies (to me, anyway) that the resulting text will be editable. It isn’t. The text is there in the PDF as text, but it’s individual letters, not words.

Also, when opening the PDF in Illustrator, all fonts used are reported as being missing.

Right now, the only way I can export truly editable text is to export the map as an SVG, which I then save to a PDF.

There are problems with exporting to SVG, the major ones being that the map isn’t clipped to the map frame and line-pattern fills extend beyond the the features being symbolized. These issues can be resolved in Illustrator, but it’s tedious when having to make several maps.

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bkepl commented 8 months ago

This is still an issue in 3.34.3.

bkepl commented 8 months ago

This is still an issue in 3.36.0.

YoannQDQ commented 1 month ago

Duplicate of #49979