Preview is displaying images as blank inside PDFs

I'm having this problem as well with both PDF Expert and Preview. Adobe Acrobat Reader DC displays the images appropriately. Interestingly, the images are also missing on my iOS devices, which is probably related, but outside the scope of this thread.

Without the original files to test it's difficult to tell what is going on. You could test the images in a different user account or while booted in Safe Mode.

Use safe mode to isolate issues with your Mac - Apple Support

I just created a PDF v1.7 document that included an SVG image, and some vector text using Affinity Designer. It opened in Preview with all content displayed. Preview will not open standalone SVG images.

Recommend using current download of Adobe Acrobat Reader DC (official link) as its v2019 or later is the first to support Mojave. Apple's Preview cannot possibly keep up with Adobe's currency of the PDF standard, or its ability to surpass Preview in imaging a variety of PDF.

Well, apparently I was wrong. I checked High Sierra and Yosemite. Preview starts to display it in High Sierra but the bone structures flash for a second then disappear. The file is displayed correctly in the Finder and on the desktop.

Preview in Yosemite displays the file correctly. So, apparently it's some sort of slow regression.

I have this problem too on an old research paper we published five years ago. Just noticed it as I was submitting faculty applications :/. I'm not sure when preview stopped rendering the PDF correctly, but it definitely used to work at some point in the past.

The PDF renders correctly in Acrobat Reader and in Chrome. But, some graphics in the PDF are missing on Mojave 10.14.2.

I have the same problem - seems like only minor photos are showing, not the major ones (judging from newspaper pages). As bad in 10.14.3-beta as in 10.14.2.

Also, when I try to (re)save a file, most photos are lost (and the file accordingly reduced in size).

Just me that get the impression that functionality, at least in Preview, is getting worse over time..? Search is working only if you open the file, close it, and reopen. Silly!

Just fount that Preview 9.0 (909.18) in MacOS Sierra (10.12.6) works perfectly well, both as regards search and displaying of large photos in pdf.

I managed to copy that Preview version into my Mojave beta (after initial protest from the OS), but that didn't help. Meaning that the faults are somewhere else in the OS, I guess.

Good pdf to test with: https://sprend.com/download.htm?C=9c135ea0be514b88bbd6beaa7ead3aa7

A couple of points.

The terms of these Apple Support Communities, and of your Apple Beta agreement do not allow any discussion, or support for beta products in these open, Google archived communities. That's just an FYI going forward.

Moving Apple applications between different versions of the shipping operating system is not recommended, and particular mixing shipping operating system applications with beta operating system builds has to be violating at least one or more Apple licensing agreements. You do not want the Apple hosts to take notice of you for these reasons.

Never mind my references to the beta. I've found the problems in the normal "production" version 10.14.2.

Check for yourself with this pdf: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1f2Bqb8_Pqm9JLiovz9wMfsiMzUDieEfI

Let's now discuss the problems, not formalities!

I see what you mean. It also doesn't display in the Finder or Quick Look. My only guess is it's using a feature of the PDF 1.7 standard which Apple doesn't support.

FWIW, It also displays correctly in Firefox but not Safari, and in Foxit Reader but not Skim.

I believe PDF 1.7 is the latest standard which Apple hasn't supported as yet.

I don't know how to convert it. As far as "anyone else for that matter", that remains to be seen.

Did you read the thread? It's a known problem with the current version of Preview. It doesn't occur with other PDF viewers. That covers any "discussion".