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10.6.7 preview.app PDF text sometimes blurry/wonky
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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
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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
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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.
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