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Preview showing blurry txt in PDF

Jul 12, 2010 6:32AM PDT

I am having issues opening PDF in preview. Sometimes the txt comes through blurry making it unreadable. When I open the PDF file in Adobe Reader its views perfectly, so its just in preview this is happening. Now for myself it is not an issue as I just set my default PDF viewer to Adobe Reader but we have clients that use MACs and we may loose some business if the presentation is up to scratch.

Is there a way that I can make the PDF view properly in Preview. I have the original presentation so if I need to convert it differently then I can.

Thanks for your help

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Adobe Reader is free
Jul 12, 2010 10:14AM PDT

So any of your clients should be able to download it. It is by far superior to Preview for pdf viewing. Otherwise, go to Preview preferences>pdf and experiment with "anti-alias text and line art. If not satisfied, instruct your clients to use Reader.

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I found a solution!
Jan 8, 2012 2:41AM PST

I was having the same problem - I was doing Save As out of Word and I assume the fonts weren't being embedded properly because I was getting the blurry text. However, when I PRINT to pdf the problem was solved. Try that!