Seemingly out of nowhere (or maybe I wasn’t paying close enough attention previously), it appears that Adobe Acrobat Pro 2020 is wiping out Finder tags upon saving PDFs, and by extension, killing my ability to find these items within DT3 based on their tags.
I have a database that indexes a folder structure of a few thousand PDFs, all of which are tagged so that they can be easily isolated into categories based on subject matter, citation, jurisdiction, etc. I have had some issues with annotating PDFs recently (e.g., highlighting text causing the record type to be changed from “PDF+text” to “PDF document”) so I have started applying annotations externally, first in Skim but now in Adobe Acrobat Pro since I bit the bullet and purchased it. This doesn’t seem to be happening when I annotate a PDF in Skim and I don’t know whether this would happen if I were using Adobe Acrobat DC.
Has anyone else seen this issue?
Notably, this also happens if I apply my tags in Finder then open the PDF in Acrobat, annotate, and save.
No, this doesn’t happen in Preview. And interestingly, I have realized that it only happens with Acrobat Pro 2020 when deleting an annotation from a PDF. Adding highlights, for example, to a PDF in Acrobat Pro 2020 doesn’t impact Finder tags. I’m assuming this means the cause here is Adobe rather than an issue with DT3/PDFkit?