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It's evidently a bug in Lion, which you should report to Apple. You can't fix it yourself, but you can probably work around it by installing Adobe Reader, which has its own PDF rendering engine.

Have a similar problem here. Some PDFs I cannot view in Preview but they are viewable when I open it with my very old Adobe Acrobat 5.0 via Parallels > Windows.

I was experience such issues on my iOS devices before I changed on my Macbook from Snow Leopard to Lion. Whenever I received such a PDF, it was blank page on my iOS device but readable in Snow Leopard. Since Lion, iOS device and Macbook behave the same.

To make such a pdf readable, I can send the pdf file to my Mac which is still running Snow Leopard, open it (readable!), print it as PDF and send it back to my Macbook.

Has anyone fund a resolution to this issue. Pdf that comes out with blank pages using preview or safari are displayed correctly using Chrome or Adobe Reader. Interestingly same pdf is not viewed correctly in iPad or iPhone's iBooks. I'm running all the latest software 10.7.4 and iOS 5.1.1.

Just experienced the same problem with two PDF-files. Won't show on Ipad, iphone or any of my macs. All running the latest software. However, by downloading the 500 MB Acrobat Reader from Adobe my Mac displays the PDF, but no other viewer.

As a side note it's really annoying that I had to install the 500 MB Acrobat Reader to display a tiny file. Unbelieveable how large it has become.... I hope Apple can fix this bug or whatever it is.

It's pretty common for Preview to fail rendering PDF files. As Adobe releases new versions of Acrobat Pro, and users create PDFs with those new versions, Apple has to play catch-up and figure out how to render those new formats and update Preview. The latest version of Adobe's free Reader of course always works.

As a side note it's really annoying that I had to install the 500 MB Acrobat Reader to display a tiny file.

I have to ask. Where in the world are you downloading a half gig version of the free Reader from? The Mac version 11 download is only 77 MB. Installed, it takes up about 140 MB of space.

My mistake. It was 80 MB, but it was placed right below Lightroom in my download folder, which is 431 MB. :-)

However, I'm used to using Foxit Reader on my windows computer, and it's only 2 or 3 MB. Don't know what else the Adobe Reader does, but it displays PDFs that others don't display at all.

Strangely, when I downloaded the Acrobat Reader on my ipad it would not display the pdf correctly. It only worked on my imac.

However, I'm used to using Foxit Reader on my windows computer, and it's only 2 or 3 MB.

I have always wondered why the Reader is so big. 🙂 But it launches decently fast and it works, so that's the one I use.

Strangely, when I downloaded the Acrobat Reader on my ipad it would not display the pdf correctly.

I haven't seen that yet, though we don't open very many PDF files on the iPad, so probably just haven't hit one yet. A crippled version for the iPad to keep the size down?

Same thing is happening to me on ML.

Some of PDF is normal and very few of them are blanked.

Really strange.

Downloading adobe reader, hope it will digest my troubled pdfs.

This thing is just coming to me on latest 10.12.1

ALso the latest iOS shows the same on the identical files.

It does affect only some PDF (with binary content).

But it affects older PDF from the same source that previously opened fine.

So I would assume it's rather an issue with MacOSX than the update to the Adobe PDF render engine?

When I monitor the logs at the time of opening the PDF, I see a bunch of strange error messages fro both the WebKit accessing keychain as well as from the kernel.