Blurry text while viewing PDFs in Preview (rMBP)

[Junkyman]

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

 

[nontroppo]

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

 

[JesseW6889]

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

 

[Junkyman]

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]

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

http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0050532