Preview Renders Text In PDFs Blurry

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?

Posted on Jan 5, 2018 10:29 AM

17 replies

Doc_H

Level 1

9 points

Mar 29, 2018 2:55 AM in response to Doc_H

Months pass and nothing comes out. Still blurry ...

😠

Doc_H

Level 1

9 points

Mar 29, 2018 2:57 AM in response to SnakeDog

Same for me, looks good on a MacBook retina, whereas Preview on my iMac is almost unusable for PDFs ...

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Preview Renders Text In PDFs Blurry

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