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I'm currently using the trial version of Aperture 2.1 for my small architecture practice. Most of my assets are photos or renderings, but some are PDF files of vector drawings. Maybe I'm asking too much from Aperture, but I am having a very strange problem with the PDf files. The background color for both the preview thumbnail and the large view of the PDF files are being inverted: white backgrounds are displayed as black. When you have a black line drawing and the background becomes black, it is impossible to see the drawing! None of the content of the PDF changes (black and colored lines keep their color), only the background turns black.
I've tried updating the preview but this doesn't do anything. Does Aperture not support PDF files?
Thanks

What do you see when you open the same files in Preview? As far as I know, both use the same OS-level PDF rendering engine.
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