Blurry text while viewing PDFs in Preview (rMBP)

Junkyman · Dec 6, 2012, 10:44 PM

Hello community,

today's problem is as follows: While reading text-PDFs, which consist only of text, on my 15'' rMBP, it usually happens that the text is not properly loaded. Sometimes it's just really blurry; sometimes the letters are cut off; and sometimes they are really pixelated.

Usually it suffices to mark the text (either by selectively marking or just pressing CMD+a), but this is really annoying.

Anyone else having the same observation?

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nontroppo · Dec 7, 2012, 02:29 AM

Are these scanned text PDFs? I read a lot of PDFs in Previw without any problems on my rMBP...

JesseW6889 · Dec 7, 2012, 08:03 AM

No problems here either... is it scanned text? Maybe OCR with clearscan?

Junkyman · Dec 7, 2012, 08:32 AM

Thanks for the answers!

No, it's not about scanned PDFs (they are displayed fine). It's about PDFs of, for instance, word-documents or the like or websites.

nontroppo · Dec 7, 2012, 11:06 AM

Have a sample we can test? Here is an example that displays perfectly clearly for example:

http://www.plosone.org/article/info%...l.pone.0050532

Dec 6, 2012, 10:44 PM	#1
Junkyman macrumors regular Join Date: Sep 2012	Blurry text while viewing PDFs in Preview (rMBP) Hello community, today's problem is as follows: While reading text-PDFs, which consist only of text, on my 15'' rMBP, it usually happens that the text is not properly loaded. Sometimes it's just really blurry; sometimes the letters are cut off; and sometimes they are really pixelated. Usually it suffices to mark the text (either by selectively marking or just pressing CMD+a), but this is really annoying. Anyone else having the same observation? Best
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Dec 7, 2012, 02:29 AM	#2
nontroppo macrumors 6502 Join Date: Mar 2009	Are these scanned text PDFs? I read a lot of PDFs in Previw without any problems on my rMBP...
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Dec 7, 2012, 08:03 AM	#3
JesseW6889 macrumors 6502 Join Date: Dec 2010	No problems here either... is it scanned text? Maybe OCR with clearscan?
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Dec 7, 2012, 08:32 AM	#4
Junkyman Thread Starter macrumors regular Join Date: Sep 2012	Thanks for the answers! No, it's not about scanned PDFs (they are displayed fine). It's about PDFs of, for instance, word-documents or the like or websites.
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Dec 7, 2012, 11:06 AM	#5
nontroppo macrumors 6502 Join Date: Mar 2009	Have a sample we can test? Here is an example that displays perfectly clearly for example: http://www.plosone.org/article/info%...l.pone.0050532
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