PDF Bug in Preview/Tiger?

I created a document in Indesign in CS2.
There a mounted a 300dpi picture that was 170x130mm
I exported that into a pdf, opened the pdf with preview and said print.
When the picture came out on paper it was 162x120 mm.
I noticed, cause it was supposed to go in a frame, and it didn't match.
So I opened the exact same .pdf but used Acrobat 7 professional and said print.
(used the same printer and same printer settings)
And the picture came out as 170x130mm
I'm not sure what went wrong, but seems like Preview have some trouble with aspect ratio's.
Anyone else noticed this, is this known?

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.
This is kind of painful, since I give physics lectures using Keynote, and things like integral and summation signs and vectors and such are kind of nice to have around.
Someone has got to know what is going on!

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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.
That said, this isn't really the right place to report bugs. This is a user-to-user forum, not a way to communicate with Apple. Go here:
http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html

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No sense posting here unless you have a problem. If you want to report this to Apple, either send Feedback or send bug reports and enhancement requests via its Bug Reporter system. To do the latter, 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. The nice thing with this procedure over submitting feedback is that you get a response and a follow-up number; thus, starting a dialog with engineering.

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I have searched all over the place... will Tiger show a preview icon for PDF files? I only get an Adobe PDF icon, there is no preview thumbnail. I have Adobe CS Pro installed. Thank you in advance for any suggestions.
shawnotay

Hi shawnotay. Welcome to the Discussions.
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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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