Apple Event: May 7th at 7 am PT
I noticed that at some point OS X Preview started rendering the text in PDFs really badly. The text looks a little bolder than it actually is, and it seems blurry. Opening the exact same PDF in Adobe Acrobat looks the way it looks in the app I create the PDF in.
Anyone else getting this?
Thanks for the reply.
I don't see a "smooth text and line art" option in my Preview. I went and changed the 1 point equals 1 screen pixel option. It made no difference.
I fired up TextEdit in OS X and just put in some text and saved it out as a PDF, then opened it in Preview and Acrobat. The same result – Preview's text is bolder than it actually is, and a little fuzzy. Screenshots attached.
Preview:
Acrobat:
From Illustrator – Preview:
From Illustrator – Acrobat:
There is a clear bolding of the text in Preview.
And what's weird is if I take the same PDF and bring it into Apple's Keynote, the PDF is rendered correctly. It's only in Preview I'm having an issue.
Months pass and nothing comes out. Still blurry ...
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Same for me, looks good on a MacBook retina, whereas Preview on my iMac is almost unusable for PDFs ...
Preview Renders Text In PDFs Blurry
