iPadOS 17 PDF Text Markup Broken, Not Syncing Properly Across Devices

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Similar problem, a bit different.

On performing some markup (handwritten text), I decide to move it around a bit.

Selection tool shows normal dotted line around the text, but then appears a few centimetres away, and deselects when trying to move it. Or, inverts and compresses the selected text.

By accident, I found if I move the pdf slightly with a finger (“draw with finger” is off, and all markup is with pencil), the ‘selection’ dotted line springs back to surrounding the handwritten text.

Just updated to iPadOS 17.1 a day ago, this bug was not happening in iPadOS 16.x as fully updated prior to doing 17.1 update.

submitted as a bug, but want to second this as an issue. trying to annotate readings for my classes and finding x-ed out boxes where my markings were in markup mode.

I have the same issue. Mark up for a template document I did not create myself. I must use standard forms for work in pdf form. I will add all the text fields, formatting is perfect but if I upload the file to another platform or try to print there will be random text boxes that get distorted, black font becomes white, sizing of font will change, line spacing changes and text boxes jump either up or down. This makes my typed content overlap section they don’t belong. It is infuriating to work on a document only to have it look perfect only to have it be completely useless to save or share.

It will only look proper as the original user on the original device. For context. This occurs in pdf files from an outside source. Saved to my iPad Pro, edited using markup from its saved location in files. Once completed formatting looks perfectly aligned and sized. Opening the file again it looks perfect. Using share or print or uploading to an external location Random formatting errors show up in the shared file.

Not yet resolved

I wasted an afternoon yesterday trying to predict the placement of text boxes when they skew to have a usable shared pdf file.

any ways to recover the pdf. I am shocked right now. Lost everything! :/