Honestly, is there something that actually works in rhino? 221_tabulka_vystuz.pdf (56.6 KB) like really? [image] [image]

this is how autocad does it with the same pdf: [image] i am really starting to doubt rhino and its future. there is not a single day i find out something does not work when i actually want to do something besides drawing curves. it is so fragile i am considering abandoning it at all. it is just …

text editation crazyness.3dm (945.4 KB) this is pdf successfully imported in autocad and then dwg opened in rhino. just try ctrl a select all and change the font to arial narrow and evertything goes bold which it should not. actually rhino cant import that dwg properly because the font is arial na…

Import does seem to work much better under Rhino 6: [Screenshot 2024-02-28 133449] Rhino 7 fundamentally gives the same result as Rhino 8

[image] Ivan Galik: 221_tabulka_vystuz.pdf (56.6 KB) Thanks for that example → RH-80686 File IO: Import PDF text - Failure example -wim

Yes, fair enough. But formatting is significantly better than Rhino 7/8. I just wanted to show that this is going in the wrong direction and the result getting significantly worse from Rhino 7 onwards. This might help McNeel to analyse and locate the problem.

For what it’s worth: you don’t want to see what this looks like in Rhino 5 :laughing:

my problem is that they claim they have brought some feature but in reality it means the feature is there but is so inferior or full of errors. good example is block management. one would expect that so called overhaul to look totally different and yet there is one chinese guy who did what they cou…

Yep we have BIG issues with importing PDF’s which didn’t exist in V7, really not great at all, I reported similar, see here in the forum @Guillermo_Varela is this being looked into ?

Hi, no, as I said in the previous post, the problem was related to the huge paper size, have you checked it?

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brian (Brian Gillespie) January 21, 2026, 7:06pm 18

RH-19590 is fixed in Rhino WIP

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