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Leopard and Preview
#3465 09/10/09 12:23 PM
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I have been using Preview as my default PDF viewer with continuing good results. However, with Leopard, things have changed.

Now when I receive PDFs attachments in the mail, I cannot read them as the background is no longer white. It is a grey and white checkerboard.

I dragged the last email PDF to the desktop and opened Adobe Reader 9.1.0 so that I could view the PDF from within Reader. It opened just fine.

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Re: Leopard and Preview
ryck #3467 09/10/09 01:03 PM
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I've never had that happen since moving to Leopard. Do you suppose that com.apple.Preview.plist could be corrupt? How about under a different user account? Does that still happen?

Re: Leopard and Preview
Gregg #3485 09/10/09 08:06 PM
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Originally Posted By: Gregg
Do you suppose that com.apple.Preview.plist could be corrupt?


Bingo. That was it. Thanks.

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Re: Leopard and Preview
ryck #3490 09/10/09 09:51 PM
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fwiw, the grey and white checkerboard normally symbolizes an area of an image that's transparent, when being edited. (the "alpha channel")


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Re: Leopard and Preview
ryck #3497 09/11/09 12:34 AM
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Great! Glad to hear it was something so easy to take care of. smile


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