Preview on a Mac. .pdf garbage

[2blue4u]

This has only started happening recently and no, I haven't made any significant changes to the system that I can think of.

I receive a .pdf file in which the text appears as coloured block lines. When viewed on XP (spit) under Parallels it's fine. I can then print it to a new .pdf using fineprint pdffactory and the resultant file is perfectly readable in Preview under OSX.

All versions of everything are fully up to date.

This is a grab of the garbage I'm seeing.

Any help gratefully received.

John

 

[Buck]

That looks like somebody's DNA map !!!!

Have you tried deleting PDF reader and reinstalling? Looks like some file corruption.

 

[2blue4u]

It works fine on anything I produce, both under OSX and XP.

 

[boyfalldown]

It works fine on anything I produce, both under OSX and XP.

I've had that issue once or twice. As far as I can tell its caused during the PDF creation. Using adobe reader rather than preview solves the issue.

 

[2blue4u]

I was afraid someone would say that. I had to use adobe reader under Leopard and I hated it.