Preview not showing some text in certain PDFs

I've had issues with a couple of PDFs this year that did not display correctly in Preview, but are viewable in Acrobat Reader. An example is here on pages 31-36. Preview shows blank gridlines, but Acrobat Reader shows text and numeric data in those cells. It appears Adobe may have enabled some kind of text flag that Preview is ignoring in one of their authoring programs?

MBP, Mac OS X (10.6.6)

Posted on Mar 14, 2011 1:11 PM

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Mar 15, 2011 5:52 AM in response to recordista

An example is [here| http://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/stelprdb5227378.pdf ] on pages 31-36. Preview shows blank gridlines,


I tried downloading the pdf file at that link, and in my system Preview displays those pages properly:
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You might try running the [OS X v10.6.6 combo update|http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1349] - it contains some updated Preview components which might include something that is currently missing in your system.

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