Maverick Preview malfunction

My preview. as of yesterday has ceased showing me text in my PDF documents. I have long used preview to view pdfs and i cannot imagine why they would cease working now.
Details:
I use these PDFs on dropbox with about 100 other people who read them as well.
I downloaded and installed Divvy yesterday and needed to run a program to make it work with accesability.
I pasted this code into console "sudo sqlite3 /Library/Application\ Support/com.apple.TCC/TCC.db 'delete from access where client like "%divvy%"'"
i am sure it isnt necessary to include that code but i wanted to add in everything that happened around the time i noticed.
attached are the print screens of both the working pdf (third party program PDF++) and preview

Log into your Guest account and see if you can view PDF in Preview?
If no, the probem is at the base level.
If yes, you will need to fix your User's folder.

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Back up your documents and everything else important to you, not that there is any reason to believe your hard disk may be failing, but the symptoms you describe may presage an impending disk failure, and you should have backups anyway.
To help determine the possible causes of this behaviour read the following. None of what follows is intended to fix anything, but it will provide the additional information required to advance troubleshooting:
Boot OS X Recovery by holding ⌘ and r (two fingers) while you start your Mac. At the Mac OS X Utilities screen, select Disk Utility. Select your startup volume (usually named "Macintosh HD") and click the Repair Disk button. Describe any errors it reports in red.
When it finishes restart your Mac and test again for operation. If it's still not behaving as you expect it should, please post the results of EtreCheck in accordance with the following instructions:
Apple Support Communities contributor etresoft wrote a very useful app to quickly gather certain system information that may help point to a cause of this problem. Go to his website, download and run EtreCheck:
http://www.etresoft.com/etrecheck
Etrecheck will be in your Downloads folder. Open it from there. You may see the following dialog box:
Click Open - etresoft contributes to this forum frequently and can be considered a trustworthy developer.
It will take a moment to run as it collects its data.
Copy and paste its output in a reply.
Do not be concerned about anything that says "Problem" or “failed” or anything else that may appear in red.
EtreCheck was designed to remove any personal information (such as your computer's name and serial numbers) but if you see anything that looks like an email address or any other personal information that should not be divulged to others, please delete or obscure that information when you post the reply.
When you are finished with EtreCheck, quit the program. It occupies very little space, and you can keep it or drag it to the Trash as you wish.
After completing the above please determine if the problems also occur in "Safe Mode":
Safe Mode or "Safe Boot" is a troubleshooting mode that bypasses all third party system extensions and loads only required system components. Read about it: Starting up in Safe Mode
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Ah, now I see - you have not marked this topic as a question. Look at the icon to the left of this thread and compare it to the others:
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Thanks for the question. After reviewing your post, it sounds like the Photos app is running slowly. I would recommend that you read these articles, they may be helpful in troubleshooting your issue.
Force an app to close in iOS - Apple Support
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Have a nice day,
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http://support.apple.com/kb/PH13975
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Isolating an issue by using another user account
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS4053
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