Liquid Mode formatting

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March 22, 2023
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Hi can anyone help? I save a word document as PDF. In the word document I had highlighted some information in black so it could not be read. When opening the pdf in Liquid Mode on the phone the words were no longer covered in highlighted black and could be read. The highlighter had moved to another place in the document.

How has this happened when it has been saved as a pdf and the text had been highlighted? When opening as a normal pdf it is formatted correctly. Your help would be welcomed! Thanks

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Thom Parker

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The highlight didn't move. The document text was re-flowed, so it was the text that moved. The highlight stayed in the same place. If you don't want the text to exist in the PDF, then remove it before conversion, or do as ls_rbls suggests, redact the text in the PDF.

The other part of this is that text can't be re-flowed in a PDF. When it is displayed in "liquid mode", it is no longer a PDF. You're viewing text that has been extracted from the PDF and displayed in a different format, and so, all PDF features, such as highlights, are lost (or become meaningless) in this process.

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