apple fixes preview but problems with pdfkit

#APPLE FIXES PREVIEW BUT PROBLEMS WITH PDFKIT PDF#
#APPLE FIXES PREVIEW BUT PROBLEMS WITH PDFKIT UPDATE#
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Copying 'The difference' from the pdf to a text editor renders 'e di erence'. Hopefully in the future versions they are not going to break this again. EDIT : The problem described below apparently was a bug in Apples PDFKit and it seems that as of macOS High Sierra 10.13.5 they finally fixed it Ligatures in the MWE below are not encoded properly when compiling with LuaLaTeX or XeLaTeX using TeXShop on the Mac. After updating to Catalina it seems that the situation has improved: Is there any other solution, or shall I hope for a fix in the next update? I am now using High Sierra 10.13.6 (17G65) If you want to open a PDF with any app using PDFKit provided by the system, especially when you connected to an old monitor, it is non-readable blurry. On the Internet I have read that this issue might be related to antialiasing, but none of the recipes solve the issue. PDF blurry in any PDFKit apps, including Preview, Safari, and 3rd party Skim.

#APPLE FIXES PREVIEW BUT PROBLEMS WITH PDFKIT UPDATE#

But apparently the update has affected something used in Preview (and other apps, such as Skim), presumably PDFKit as mentioned here.

I think that fortunately the update has not affected Chrome (also Acrobat Reader works fine for me). There must be some problems (either in PDFKit or dvipdfmx) in supporting FlateDecode predictor filter for 16bit gray color images, which is used for SoftMask of blurred image. The interesting point is that even after the update Chrome (on the left) displays PDF files in a much better and more readable way compared to Safari (on the right):īoth browsers were opened side-by-side in a fullscreen mode.

I have already submitted feedback to Apple, but I would to hear if people are also seeing this just to make sure it is not something weird on my machines. ‌Safari Technology Preview‌ can run side-by-side with the existing Safari browser and while designed for developers, it does not require a developer account to download.I have just updated from High Sierra to Mojave and discovered that Preview displays PDF files in an extremely blurry way (before the update it was fine). This was regardless of which program I used to display it (Preview, Skim, TeXShop), which indicates that the problem is in the common framework they all use - PDFKit.

#APPLE FIXES PREVIEW BUT PROBLEMS WITH PDFKIT FULL#

Full release notes for the update are available on the Safari Technology Preview website.Īpple's aim with ‌Safari Technology Preview‌ is to gather feedback from developers and users on its browser development process. The ‌Safari Technology Preview‌ update is available through the Software Update mechanism in System Preferences to anyone who has downloaded the browser. If you open the file in Preview and save as a postscript file in the print menu, the resulting postscript file produces a 'Postscript Conversion. The new build of ‌Safari Technology Preview‌ is compatible with machines running macOS 13 Ventura, unlike prior versions of ‌Safari Technology Preview‌, but it no longer works with macOS Big Sur. I have attached a pdf file that causes the problem. The current ‌Safari Technology Preview‌ release is built on the Safari 16 update and it includes support for feature coming in macOS Ventura such as Live Text, Passkeys, Web Extension improvements, and more. ‌Safari Technology Preview‌ release 155 includes bug fixes and performance improvements for Web Inspector, CSS, Rendering, JavaScript, Media, Scroll to Text Fragment, Web API, Loading, and WebDriver. Apple designed the ‌Safari Technology Preview‌ to test features that may be introduced into future release versions of Safari. Apple today released a new update for Safari Technology Preview, the experimental browser Apple first introduced in March 2016.

Apple fixes preview but problems with pdfkit