Opacity bug in Preview?

Using the annotation tools, draw a square or a circle. Open the inspector/annotations. Under attributes, click the fill color for the square. Slide the opacity bar. 50-100 it's a solid color (whatever the color was originally). 1-49 the opacity acts like 0. There are no degrees of opacity. Shouldn't we have gradations? The arrow annotation, however, does work. The border controls also do opacity correctly. It's just the fill for squares and circles.
Help.

As a software vendor, we've had a few reports from customers about this problem when they updated to Snow Leopard. Our users add annotations using our application PDF Studio with a level of transparency. When opening the document in Preview the annotations are not transparent anymore but opaque. When opening the document in PDF Studio or Adobe Reader, the annotations are displayed properly with the correct transparency. It seems like a new Preview bug introduced in Snow Leopard (used to work fine on Leopard).

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Annotation Opacity bug in Preview

I'm having problem when using the annotation for PDF files (no problem in other types such as JPEG). The Opacity does not work. IT either does nothing when adjusting between 50-100% or becomes totally blank between 0-50%. Any ideas?

As a software vendor, we've had a few reports from customers about this problem when they updated to Snow Leopard. Our users add annotations using our application PDF Studio with a level of transparency. When opening the document in Preview the annotations are not transparent anymore but opaque. When opening the document in PDF Studio or Adobe Reader, the annotations are displayed properly with the correct transparency. It seems like a new Preview bug introduced in Snow Leopard (used to work fine on Leopard).

% Scale bug in Preview

i have been experiencing a bug in preview where changing the entry in SCALE (i.e. entering actual numbers into the "Scale" dialog does nothing). I if I enter 50 or 75 or 200 it does not matter as preview will simply print at - apparently it will simply print at whatever it opened with - which at the moment appears to be actual size. If I click on "Scale to Fit" the new percentage number will now be in the "Scale" dialog - the image will /now/ be at the Scale To Fit size, but again putting in differnt entries in the Scale dialog will not change anything.
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oh cripes. thank you matt!
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Do your try it on Azure manage portal (https://manage.windowsazure.com )? Azure preview portal currently is preview version and no support approach. So you can confirm this issue on manage portal. If it always
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Bug in Preview's Exif viewer (inverted GPS coordinates)?

Hi,
I've been scratching my head quite a lot over this one...
I'm finalizing an application that gets your GPS coordinates off your Google Latitude history and uses them to geotag your pictures. The idea is to make it easier to use the "Places" functionality of iPhoto, Picasa, etc...
Anyway, I cannot explain why Preview seems to display an incorrect longitude (it drops the "-" sign which places a California picture somewhere in China...) when Exiftool, Picasa and, yes, even iPhoto seem to get it right.
I know some of you will probably think I'm looking at 2 different pictures (I probably would think the same if I were you) but I've double, triple checked. In fact a simple "Show in finder" from iPhoto or Picasa will bring up the picture for me to double-click.
Anyway, see for yourself:
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tbertran wrote:
However, that would not explainwhy the very complete exiftool output is spotless (as far as I can tell). IPhoto and Picasa also get it right...
That's all well and good. But even if you have smoking-gun evidence that there is a bug in Preview (and it isn't a show-stopping bug either), it will be months, if not years until said bug is fixed. Until then, your output will not work in Preview. So, in any case, you are going to have to modify your code to produce output that Preview can read. Other applications are able to produce such files that Preview can understand. What is the difference?
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Possible BUG on preview found?

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i believe to have found a bug on Preview. The thread is here:
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If you want to report this to Apple, send a bug report (or enhancement request) via its Bug Reporter system. Join the Apple Developer Connection (ADC)—it's free and available for all Mac users and gets you a look at some development software. Since you already have an Apple username/ID, use that. Once a member, go to Apple BugReporter and file your bug report/enhancement request. You'll get a get a Bug ID number; thus, starting a dialog directly with engineering.

Bug in Preview in Snow Leopard when opening multiple pdf files at once

I receive 50-200 pdf files by e-mail each day. I have historically saved the pdf attachments to a folder, then selected all the pdf files in the folder (CMD A), then opened all the selected files in Preview (CMD O). After updating to Snow Leopard, downloading 34 pdf files to a folder, selecting them all, then attempting to open them all in Preview (using both CMD O, then File/Open, then File/Open With), the effort first opens 6 of the 34 files. Closing all then trying again results in 7 files being opened, closing all then trying again results in 8 files being opened, etc etc. Earlier today I had the same results, but eventually got a message asking if I wanted to open all in separate windows (I did) or a single window, and it opened all the files at once as I wanted. After shutting down, moving home, and receiving additional pdf files, however, back to the same open 5, then open 6, etc. problem. Anyone else having this problem or a suggestion on how to resolve?
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B

More info - apparently the bug isn't related to Preview, but to the attempt to open all pdf files in the folder with ANY program. After having Preview open 25 of the 34 files I was attempting to open, I then tried opening all 34 with Adobe Reader. It opened 26 (after Preview had opened 25). Tried again with Preview - it opened 27, then 28 with Adobe Reader. It doesn't necessarily open the FIRST 25 (or 26, etc) either, so it's difficult to work with the open ones, then go back and work with the remaining ones later.

PDF font bug in Preview

I've put Leopard on all 9 of my macs, and I love it.
On one of them (unfortunately the macbook pro that I use all the time), I'm having a nasty bug with PDFKit.
When I open a PDF file that I made in pdflatex in Preview, sometimes it looks fine, but sometimes the fonts are all wrong and sans-serif-y. In many occasions, I an switch back and forth between the good fonts and the bad fonts JUST BY SWITCHING AWAY FROM PREVIEW AND SWITCHING BACK.
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http://www.screenshots.cc/view_image/9eeb21311/ThisLooksAwful.png
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http://www.screenshots.cc/view_image/c83d91304/ThisLooksGreat.png
Has anyone seen anything like this? The bad fonts propagate themselves all the way to a printed page.

Indeed, wiping out the caches is not a permanent solution.
I found a couple of threads in some tex newsgroups that discuss this problem. There doesn't seem to be a resolution. There was some discussion that Latex Equation Editor is no longer being developed, but LaTeXIt, a similar program shows a similar font corruption problem. Fonts are fine in Preview until using LaTeXIt (or Latex Equation Editor), when they get 'corrupted'. By that I mean that documents viewed in Preview often come up sans-serif, regardless of the original font, and often special characters, such as arrows above letters (indicating vectors) disappear. Keynote files that use those characters (from, for example, using LaTeXIt under Tiger) show corruption. Rebooting (and possibly simply logging out and back in) 'cures' the problem, ie, Preview and Keynote are once again happy. During all this, Acrobat is always happy.
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Font bug in Preview PDFs due to ATSSERVER

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For the past couple of months I have been having a very annoying problem where the text of pdf is garbled. I'll download a pdf file and when I open it some or most characters are replaced with empty spaces or symbols.
After a lot of searching a few weeks ago I found a post describing this exact problem, but to make this solution easier to find (and since this bug has not been fixed) I will post it again.
If you pdf files have missing or garbled text, open terminal and kill the ATSSERVER process with the following command line (substitute in your user name):
killall -u [YourUserName] ATSServer
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Apple, this is a frustrating bug that needs attention.
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How do I tell Apple, Inc. of a bug in Preview?

I can't seem to find anywhere in the product menus or on Apple's website to post a bug report for the Preview application in Snow Leopard (10.6.0). How does one go about letting them know so it gets fixed?
Also - I can't seem to post a question in the 10.6.0 Snow Leopard Discussion Group. Did they remove that or am I blind?
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Ericw wrote:
In 10.5 Leopard when I take several PDFs and add them to an open in Preview using the sidebar I can save it, and it will be a multipage PDF containing all the PDFs I added. In 10.6 I've tried doing this several times and each time it does not save the additional pages from the other PDF documents, it will only show the original PDF I started with.
This is still possible in Snow Leopard. Apple has added an additional feature(s) to Preview that makes it just a bit trickier. You just have to be careful where you place the new PDFs in the original document.
1. Open the first PDF and show the Sidebar.
2. Highlight the additional PDFs you want to add (or open the PDFs and highlight the pages you want to add) to the first PDF.
3. Drag the additional PDFs or pages to the Sidebar of the first PDF. Be sure that the background color in the Sidebar turns gray. Drop the additional PDFs or pages where desired. Just be sure that the background of the SIdebar of the receiving PDF has turned gray when you drop the additional material.
4. Save the result.
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Hi sir,
Do your try it on Azure manage portal (https://manage.windowsazure.com )? Azure preview portal currently is preview version and no support approach. So you can confirm this issue on manage portal. If it always
has this error, please feel free to let me know.
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Shared components -> Templates
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Scott

Thanks Scott,
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Funky bug - when previewing transitions...

One peristent bug my iMovie has is that when I set up a transition between two photos or two video clips, and try to preview it, it basically doesn't preview well it all. First, it goes either previews in reverse, or previews it just plain wrong. For example, if I am transitioning between clip B and C, it will preview it as a transition from clip B to clip A, or at least from clip C to B. And it will go really fast. It is just not right at all. If I actually apply it/ drag it in, whatever, it will work just fine, as expected, but the preview feature is basically just plain bunk. Any thoughts?
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Bug Report: Preview chrashes every time when it opens a specific pdf

http://www.constantin-medien.de/dasat/images/8/100778-gb2008-d-290409-safe.pdf
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You can only watch it via quickview or Safari.
Printing out of Safari will even crash Safari as well.
I reconstructed this bug on three different Macintoshs.
Message was edited by: Jamsven

Yup, crashes Preview here too. There's probably something wrong with the PDF, but that doesn't excuse a crash.
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http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html

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