Bug 127969 - new Redact function produces merely readable text
Summary: new Redact function produces merely readable text
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 124377
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
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6.3.2.2 release
Hardware: All All
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Reported: 2019-10-05 01:56 UTC by Burg
Modified: 2019-10-06 17:37 UTC (History)
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Description Burg 2019-10-05 01:56:14 UTC 
Description:
The redact feature was introduced in Libreoffice 6.3
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/6.3#New_Feature:_Redaction
"As a result, you will have a pixellized version of the redacted document in PDF. There will be no selectable text in it, and the redacted content will be non-existent."

Yes, and the pixelisation makes the text almost unreadble - coarse, uneven spacing, ugly. 
If a complete conversion to a bitmap is neccessary (what I doubt) there should be the option to choose the dpi.
Technically it should be possible to copy text not marked as 'redacted' into the export document - as text, not bitmap. 


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Tools > Redact
2. Redacted export
3. Open PDF in any viewer

Actual Results:
ugly text

Expected Results:
clear text


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No



Additional Info:
Comment 1 Roman Kuznetsov 2019-10-06 17:37:27 UTC 
Can you try latest master build where it should be fixed?

https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/master/

Or you can some wait 6.3.3 version and check it there

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 124377 ***