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From: Ed Kearns on 17 Jan 2010 18:16
I opened a pdf file which had colored lines and text. Preview displayed only
the colored lines. With 9.2 Adobe Reader it opens fine. Is there a Snow
Leopard update for Preview?

Ed

From: David Empson on 17 Jan 2010 18:36
Ed Kearns <kearnser(a)gmail.com> wrote:

> I opened a pdf file which had colored lines and text. Preview displayed only
> the colored lines. With 9.2 Adobe Reader it opens fine. Is there a Snow
> Leopard update for Preview?

If by the last question you meant to ask "Does Snow Leopard have a newer
version of Preview than Leopard?" then yes. I have no idea whether it
will work any better with your particular PDF.

If you meant "Is there a separate update to Preview later than what came
with 10.6.2?" then no. Preview will probably get updated in 10.6.3 (and
any security updates which fix security issues in Preview), but I have
no idea whether it will work any better with your particular PDF.

It would be helpful if you could at least include a link to a PDF which
demonstrates the problem.

If you want Preview to be fixed, someone needs to submit a bug report to
Apple, including one of the affected files.

--
David Empson
dempson(a)actrix.gen.nz
From: Jochem Huhmann on 17 Jan 2010 19:03
dempson(a)actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) writes:

> Ed Kearns <kearnser(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I opened a pdf file which had colored lines and text. Preview displayed only
>> the colored lines. With 9.2 Adobe Reader it opens fine. Is there a Snow
>> Leopard update for Preview?
>
> If by the last question you meant to ask "Does Snow Leopard have a newer
> version of Preview than Leopard?" then yes. I have no idea whether it
> will work any better with your particular PDF.

It's an ugly fact, but still: PDF in OS X is very much tailored to the
needs of the display system in OS X and while Preview does a nice and
quick job for most PDF files the reference is still what you get from
Adobe. As I said, it's ugly, but it is as it is.


Jochem

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"A designer knows he has arrived at perfection not when there is no
longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away."
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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