Preview app and use with PDF form files

Feb 18, '03 10:26:00AM

Contributed by: mhellman

I had a problem viewing and printing a PDF file generated by an online service. The file consisted of a filled-in form. The form was there on screen, but the data that makes the form useful was invisible -- until I opened the file in Adobe Acrobat Reader instead of the Preview window it opened in automatically. In AAR, the file looked and printed fine.

Preview works fine with all other PDF files I've viewed and printed, so I suspect the problem here has to do with the service sending a form and then data to fill in the form. Hopefully Apple will fix what appears to be a bug in Preview, but until then, you can use the workaround of opening the file in AAR.

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