[brickcam]

Hi folks, hope your boxes are running well. Mine is okay, but I'm having a strange, recent issue with Preview.app on my MBP, Santa Rosa 2.2GHz running 10.6.7.

Sometimes PDFs render fine, but sometimes the text appears choppy/blurry. This symptom happens in Preview.app sometimes on PDF opening and sometimes only after I start scrolling within the PDF. It does not revert to looking crisp. I have searched Google and these forums and I'm not sure what the issue is. It may be related to fonts, to anti-aliasing, to the PDF contents themselves -- any ideas out there? Thanks for your time.

Preview.app and Safari.app displaying the same PDF differently: http://i.imgur.com/lOe3Y.jpg

[ibook_steve]

Have you checked your Preview preferences? Under PDF, make sure Smooth text and line art is turned on. How do the pdf's appear in Adobe Reader?

Steve

[brickcam]

Hi Steve,

Thanks for writing. My memory is that the Preview smooth text option was selected originally, and that yesterday I unselected it as part of my troubleshooting. Then today I reselected it on your advice, and now some of the PDFs display correctly. The PDFs all display correctly in Adobe Reader.

However, I can still replicate the issue in some PDFs. There are individual pages where upon scrolling the text gets very choppy in Preview but not in the other apps.