HobeSoundDarryl
macrumors G5
It's not just Archive.org. I just had a problem with an airline ticket. Travel ticket downloaded as PDF looks fine. 4 days later, return ticket from same company using the same process shows only the barcode and none of the (textual) information on the face of the ticket. As a backup to "just use an app" ticketing, I like to save PDF versions and the only way to roll with that ticket was to screen grab it as an image file and save the image instead of the PDF. In other words, the "pdf" version of the ticket in Safari looked fine/normal but when exported to PDF file for Preview (using the same steps as the first ticket), I end up with mostly a blank page with only bar codes showing. And yes, instead of just clicking the download PDF icon in Safari, I also tried print to PDF too but same result.
Investigating further by opening the problematic one in Pixelmator, the background is transparent and lots of areas where text can be appears as white rectangles... like white-out tape strips put over the text. I tried inverting the page to see if perhaps white text on white was the issue but white strips are then black and all text still invisible (if there). I then tried putting an alternative solid color background behind the page to replace the transparency but that made no difference: transparency just became solid color, different than the white strips where text should be visible.
Not all things are lost: brand, little icons and bar codes are "normal"- just the text itself is missing/hidden/"redacted". File size is about the same size as the prior ticket, so the data is probably there- just not displaying. Again, ticket for the "to" part of the trip generated just 4 days earlier by the exact same method looks fine.
Do we miss "just works" Apple or what?
Investigating further by opening the problematic one in Pixelmator, the background is transparent and lots of areas where text can be appears as white rectangles... like white-out tape strips put over the text. I tried inverting the page to see if perhaps white text on white was the issue but white strips are then black and all text still invisible (if there). I then tried putting an alternative solid color background behind the page to replace the transparency but that made no difference: transparency just became solid color, different than the white strips where text should be visible.
Not all things are lost: brand, little icons and bar codes are "normal"- just the text itself is missing/hidden/"redacted". File size is about the same size as the prior ticket, so the data is probably there- just not displaying. Again, ticket for the "to" part of the trip generated just 4 days earlier by the exact same method looks fine.
Do we miss "just works" Apple or what?
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