Why do some PDF documents appear garbled and unreadable in OS X Preview?
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Mar 15, 20262667 viewsConfidence Score0%
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I occasionally come across some PDF documents which are unreadable on a Mac when using the standard OS X Preview. They work OK in Adobe Reader, but not in Preview. Does anyone know what the cause of this is — in particular is there something we can configure to make these documents work in Preview?…
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It may be a corrupt font cache. Use this command in the terminal to flush it and then reboot:
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