Office Web Application PDF rendering poor quality

Hi
We have a customer using SharePoint 2013 and Office Web Application to provide PDF and WORD documents to partners. Now we ran into the problem, that all PDF are rendered in such a poor quality, that it is hard to read the PDF document, because it
is so blured. DOCX documents are also compressed, but readable. If the user downloads the PDF file, the Quality of the PDF is good.
That is how it looks in Office web application:
This is the same file downloaded and opened with the pdf client:
Is there any solution for this problem? Does Microsoft planned any update on this?
Thanks
Michael
in2brain

Hi Michael,
Are you using a monitor with high resolution?
Per the following information, if you are using a monitor with high resolution, the pdf rendered by OWA from browser will look blurry, as a workaround you can open PDF file using PDF client software currently.
"The Word Viewer in the WACs converts documents (including PDFs) to PNG images at 96 DPI which is likely why the users are seeing blurry text if they are viewing documents on a high DPI device/monitor (>200 DPI)."
Thanks
Daniel Yang
TechNet Community Support

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I think the PDF support, if it exists, in only in Office 365. Always remember that the Office 365 and on premises versions will never be in sync. On premise is updated using periodic service packs and Office 365 has continuous updates. (I've heard every
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Hi ,
Thank you for your post.
Whether the issue occurs with different file types or only the PDF.
Based on your description, when you reset WAC server from PowerShell or restart IIS, the issue is solved temporarily.
I recommend that you check the application account, re-enter the account, then reset the IIS.
whether the issue occurs with different file types or only the PDF.
In addition, please check if the link is useful:
http://stevemannspath.blogspot.jp/2013/04/sharepoint-2013-pdf-support-and.html
Best Regards,
Lisa Chen

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