Lion Preview opens pdfs but they are blank
When I open a pdf obtained from a third party, in Preview in Mac OS 10.7.2 (Lion) the file opens but it is blank. If I open it in Adobe Reader 9 it opens. I did not have problems opening those files before, but since I recently made Preview my default program for opening PDFs I cannot say how long this has been a problem.
Thank you for the help.
Benoît
Some pdfs created in Adobe on a PC will not show in Preview, particularly if they have security options enabled. They will typically have .dll extensions.
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