Problems viewing documents in Preview

When I open documents, especially pdf's of blueprints I get text on top of text. The text is doubled.

How do I solve this problem?

Posted on Sep 11, 2017 7:38 PM

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Sep 11, 2017 8:13 PM in response to shuffleq

Quit Preview.


Go to Finder and select your user/home folder. With that Finder window as the front window, either select Finder/View/Show View options or go command - J. When the View options opens, check ’Show Library Folder’. That should make your user library folder visible in your user/home folder. Remove the following. You may not find them all. Restart and test.

Containers/com.apple.Preview


Containers/com.apple.quicklook.ui.helper


Preferences/com.apple.Preview.LSSharedFileList.plist

Preferences/com.apple.Preview.SandboxedPersistentURLs.LSSharedFileList.plist


Saved Application State/com.apple.Preview.savedState


Credit Linc Davis for this solution.


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