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Re: Preview vs Adobe Reader

From J Burns <burns4@nowhere.com>
Newsgroups comp.sys.mac.system
Subject Re: Preview vs Adobe Reader
Date 2014-01-20 23:38 -0500
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Message-ID <lbktl5$rom$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)
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On 1/20/14, 7:37 PM, Your Name wrote:
> In article <lbk169$189$1@dont-email.me>, J Burns <burns4@nowhere.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I have Mavericks. I downloaded my high-school yearbook as a PDF and
>> opened it with Preview.  At Actual Size, the pages were less than 8"
>> wide and not very clear.  When I zoomed, I could find no way to scroll
>> sideways. They still weren't very clear.
>>
>> I tried Adobe Reader.  At 100%, the pages were more realistic at 10"
>> wide, and I could scroll sideways.  With the same page at the same size
>> on the screen, photos and captions were clearer with Adobe.
>>
>> Is something wrong with Preview?
>
> Preview and Adobe Reader will have different ways of displaying the
> PDF, as will every other PDF viewer there is. Early versions of Preview
> were hopeless for viewing CMYK print quality PDFs ad would disply
> horrible colour shifts.
>
> Technically since PDF is a Adobe format, Adobe Reader should be the
> best application to use that properly displays everything using the
> correct standards ... unfortunately there are also many different ways
> to create a PDF, and lots of them do things in non-standard ways.
>
I've read that the specification was free of charge but controlled by 
Adobe until ISO 32000-1:2008, dated July 1, 2008.  The document was made 
by Acrobat 10.4.1, which I think came out long after 2008.  If Preview 
doesn't even get the right actual size, it sounds like the fault is with 
Preview.

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Preview vs Adobe Reader J Burns <burns4@nowhere.com> - 2014-01-20 15:33 -0500
  Re: Preview vs Adobe Reader Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-01-20 20:41 +0000
    Re: Preview vs Adobe Reader J Burns <burns4@nowhere.com> - 2014-01-20 16:03 -0500
      Re: Preview vs Adobe Reader JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2014-01-20 16:17 -0500
        Re: Preview vs Adobe Reader J Burns <burns4@nowhere.com> - 2014-01-20 17:35 -0500
          Re: Preview vs Adobe Reader Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2014-01-21 13:35 +1300
            Re: Preview vs Adobe Reader J Burns <burns4@nowhere.com> - 2014-01-20 21:05 -0500
              Re: Preview vs Adobe Reader Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2014-01-21 16:40 +1300
                Re: Preview vs Adobe Reader J Burns <burns4@nowhere.com> - 2014-01-20 22:50 -0500
                Re: Preview vs Adobe Reader Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2014-01-21 18:52 +1300
        Re: Preview vs Adobe Reader dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2014-01-21 12:20 +1300
          Re: Preview vs Adobe Reader me@home.spamsucks.ca (Király) - 2014-01-21 14:09 +0000
          Re: Preview vs Adobe Reader Bread <BreadWithSpam@Fractious.net> - 2014-01-23 14:26 -0800
            Re: Preview vs Adobe Reader dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2014-01-24 12:31 +1300
              Re: Preview vs Adobe Reader Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2014-01-23 16:34 -0800
              Re: Preview vs Adobe Reader Bread <BreadWithSpam@Fractious.net> - 2014-01-23 16:40 -0800
  Re: Preview vs Adobe Reader JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2014-01-20 16:08 -0500
    Re: Preview vs Adobe Reader J Burns <burns4@nowhere.com> - 2014-01-20 17:35 -0500
    Re: Preview vs Adobe Reader Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2014-01-21 13:39 +1300
      Re: Preview vs Adobe Reader super70s <super70s@super70s.invalid> - 2014-01-20 19:21 -0600
  Re: Preview vs Adobe Reader Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2014-01-21 13:37 +1300
    Re: Preview vs Adobe Reader nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-01-20 20:15 -0500
    Re: Preview vs Adobe Reader J Burns <burns4@nowhere.com> - 2014-01-20 23:38 -0500
      Re: Preview vs Adobe Reader nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-01-21 04:46 -0500
  Re: Preview vs Adobe Reader Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2014-01-23 22:21 +0100

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