Fuzzy Preview

Question

Level 1

46 points

Fuzzy Preview

If I open several pictures (JPG) with Preview at the same time, they show up in the "drawer" to the right or left of the viewing screen. As I click on each thumbnail in the drawer in turn, a new image appears in the viewing screen, at first really sharp and clear, then after a moment, the software seems to adjust it and it becomes slightly fuzzy. Is there a way to prevent this adjustment?

PowerBook, OS 10.3.9
Preview 2.1.1

powerbook, Mac OS X (10.3.9)

Posted on Oct 5, 2006 3:25 PM

Reply

Answer 1

Oct 5, 2006 5:46 PM in response to Marc Keane

Hi Marc,

Have you tried deleting the .plist (preference file) for Preview? You can find this in ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Preview.plist (where ~ represents your Home folder).

Not sure if this will cure your problem but a good place to start to troubleshoot.

Remember, this will return Preview to its default settings in its Preferences so you will have to reset any user set preferences there. These settings are found in its Preview Menu>Preferences.

Let us know if this has any effect on the problem,

littleshoulders [:-)

Reply

Answer 2

Oct 6, 2006 5:32 AM in response to Marc Keane

Mine does this too.

Isn't it anti-aliasing (not sure of spelling), where the graphics card is "rounding off" the image so it doesn't appear as pixelated?

I'm sure there are settings where you can turn this off. (i have troubles of my own at the moment so i can't be any more specific).

Reply

Answer 3

Marc Keane Author

Level 1

46 points

Oct 7, 2006 4:00 PM in response to big smith

littleshoulders, I tried deleting the plist file but it did not change the appearance of Preview.

big smith, the shift that takes place -- from clarity to fuzziness -- feels very much like the graphics card is trying to "round off" the images. If this can be turned off, that would be great, but the Preview preferance panel does not offer that option.

Marc

Reply

Answer 4

Oct 7, 2006 4:09 PM in response to Marc Keane

Marc,

Has this happened with all display settings?

You might want to try to create a test user account (System Preferences>Accounts) and see if the problem persists in both accounts. Might narrow it down a bit further.

littleshoulders [:-)

Reply