each text character is rendered as a separate element

[acthp]

Users that wish to modify and refine the generated pdf with a pdf editing tool report that every character in the pdf is rendered as a separate element. So it's not possible for them to change the text color, content, font size, etc., without individually editing each character.

It does appear from the code that every glyph is positioned and rendered individually. I expect this reflects some difficulty in translating between svg and pdf, but it would be more useful to end users if there were a way to preserve the full strings of the svg in the pdf.

[alafr]

I confirm this. It happens here https://github.com/alafr/SVG-to-PDFKit/blob/master/source.js#L2136

Can you check if text generated by PDFKit (like this one: http://pdfkit.org/demo/out.pdf) can be edited without issues?

If so, the SVG-to-PDFKit code should check for each character if it has only moved in the x direction from the previous one, and is such cases use the same code as in PDFKit.

I don't have time to fix it myself, but you can submit a pull request.