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Shows up poorly in Preview (left, and in built-in OS X viewer; Mac OS X 15.1) versus Adobe Acrobat and Chrome (right).

I can't seem to find any document or app setting that would cause this. It seems to have the wrong color scheme and too much contrast.

Any idea how I can figure out exactly what's happening and why?

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    Exactly your problem here forums.macrumors.com/threads/… Some discussion of the why and workarounds. Commented Jan 14 at 21:47
  • @gilby thanks! that matches what I'm seeing exactly Commented Jan 16 at 16:30

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There have been reports of several problems of this kind in Sequoia, as Apple have 'made some changes' to PDFKit.

For now, you'll have to use another PDF viewer, like Acrobat, etc.

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  • I suggest that you read the "Issues" section of the Wikipedia article on "Foxit PDF Reader" before recommending it, or even mentioning it, on this site. Commented Jan 14 at 18:30
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    Those issues with Foxit are 10 years ago. I use it when needed, just for occasions like this with PDFs from, I assume, the Internet Archive. Commented Jan 15 at 4:06
  • I use Foxit as my "non-PDFKit" viewer, and it doesn't install any other software. I haven't run it with Little Snitch or similar, to see if it's sending anything to China, though I'm not sure what data it would be able to garner. Commented Jan 15 at 8:13

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