I can’t highlight decently anymore, the highlights are jumbled and the resulting annotations content is totally unusable… I initially thought it was due to how the pdf was built, yet it’s a Manning’s book purchased directly to them though; yet, if you think the way the pds have been created is to blame, can you please specify what is the problem so that I can call Manning about the problem? But If I highlight it with another pdf highlighter, the text and the comments are neat (there might be some but exceptional problematic cases), so most likely is not a problem of the pdf…
I’ve recorded a random simple page. Many previous ones were actuallly much worse, maybe because they had mathematical symbols and code or different formats/sections. But you can see it clearly with a stright simple page like this one. Here it seems it happens at least when italic words are present - which is in all pages.
I’ll try with other documents eventually and report but this one is urgent (and a long book) for me now, and I can’t use it. The worse part is that when you come to organize the notes, they don’t have any meaning, as words are scrambled; in the case of this page, the italiced word is normally included in in a random part in the middle of the annotation; in other cases, specially if highlights are larger, the mess is bigger. Time lost to fix them is actually more than typing the book manually, so it makes MN unusable at least in this kind of documents…
Can you, please, please do something about it, or let me know what I can do? Do you have at least any information of what kind of pdf versions or formats have this undesired behaviour so that one can assess what to do about it?