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Since yesterday I have been having trouble with Preview and the way it has been displaying .pdf files.
Initially I opened a .pdf file, and it was displayed as a large mass of random characters... tamil, hindi, arabic, chinese, and so on. Each character inside its own little box, and with all the boxes overlapping to a lesser or greater extent.
I closed the pdf and reopened it to find that it displayed normally.
Today, I opened preview to find it displaying my documents as blank pages. Then pages with small spots on the them in apparently random places, and then with some text there, and some gone, and with the amorphous mass of random characters again, and then it finally opened the file normally.
I was wondering what couldd possibly have caused such strange behaviour, and what the best way to trouble shoot it might be?
The only thing that I have done to my mac in the last few days is run the little utility 'Maintenance', but all I did was repair permissions, which I can't imagine causing this kind of insanity.
Please help! I have homework to do!

I know, restarting is fabulous isn't it? Wish my PC laptop was fixed so easily.
Unfortunately I have restarted, and it did no good.
The files all display correctly once they have been opened enough times to start displaying correctly, but as soon as I restart or logout/login it all starts over again.
I have never seen anything like it.
At first I thought that maybe it as just a selection of files, but it appears to be preview because it happens in any file I try to open until I get one to open correctly, and then they all display correctly.
I am a Mac newbie... but on my PC I would reinstall the offending component. Is that
a. Possible
b. Necessary
Thanks for replying...
- Wren

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