Preview superposes gray & white checkerboard over 1-page pdfs

Preview displays a semitransparent gray & white checkerboard over the image of most one-page (only) pdfs. (Multipage files OK.) Drag & drop to add a second page and pattern goes away. Adobe displays same files normally. Just upgraded to 10.6.8.

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I'm on OS X 10.8.4 on a Mac Pro 3,1 with an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 graphics card. I've been having trouble with DVD Player for weeks now. Randomly the display window (and sometimes even the chrome of the DVD Player app itself--the title bar and the time scrub bar) will stop showing my DVD and will change to a gray and white checkerboard pattern. It looks exactly the same as if you tried taking a screen shot or were doing AirPlay mirroring, but I'm not doing either of those two things. Usually if I send DVD Player to full screen mode the picture will come back for a second, but sometimes it just comes back long enough to expand the window, then it disappears again. This activity appears to be completely random and I can't reliable get it to happen or stop happening.
Any ideas?

Try deleting the com.apple.DVDPlayer.plist.
Quit the application.
You need to look in your user Library/Preferences for the .plist. Either hold down the option key while using the Finder “Go To Folder” command and select your user Library in your home folder or use the Finder “Go To Folder” command and enter ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.DVDPlayer.plist. Move the .plist to your desktop.
Open the application and test. If it works okay, delete the plist from the desktop.
If the application is the same, return the .plist to where you got them from, overwriting the newer ones.
If you prefer to make your User library permanently visible, use the Terminal command found below.
Show User Library
You might want to bookmark the command. I had to use it again after I installed 10.8.5. I have also been informed that if you drag the user library to Finder it will remain visible.

Gray Dots when printing in Pages/Numbers

When printing from Pages (v 5.0.1) and Numbers (v 3.0.1), there are tiny gray dots all over the page. How do I get rid of these?

I have the same problem. It doesn't show dots on screen or when I choose "Open PDF in Preview" from the Print dialog box, but when I print they still appear.
It also happens with Mail, Numbers and Keynote but not with TextEdit or Preview (unless I exported the document as a PDF from Pages or Numbers).
It is infuriating.

Gray background flashes a white checkerboard pattern?

I'm new to CS6 and WIN8. When I Open an image from ACR in 16-bit TIFF and select a tool in Image>Adjustment and begin processing, the background changes from gray to a flashing white checkerboard pattern and the images disappears. What have I missed in the setup?

If helps a lot to set the GPU setting to Basic.
P

Export to Word RTF - Page Server error when over 160 pages exported

We have XIR2 SP2
We have a Crystal report published into this Enterprise which, when all parameters are widened, runs to 190 pages.
The resultant report includes tables
We can export to PDF but the client requires it in Word RTF
We can export to Word RTF Editable - and all 190 pages are produced in the resulting file, but of course the tables are omitted and the result is messy.
So, we need to export to Word RTF where the format is neat and includes the tables.
However, when we try and export more than 160 pages to Word RTF, we receive the following error.
CrystalReportViewer
handleCrystalEvent failed
Unable to retrieve Object.
The Page Server you are trying to connect to is not accessible. Please contact your system administrator.
We have a duplicate environment with an identical configuration, standing by as a failover environment and which points to the same data.This produces the same error, so we don't think it's an installation corruption or failure.
The page server is set to a maximum of 2,000,000 rows, the cache server at 256000 maximum.

Hi Tony F,
Many thanks for coming back on this one. Both Enterprise servers are identical in BO config, Windows 2003 server, but different in hardware.
One has 4 proc and one has 2, one has twice the memory of the other, yet both fail at over 161 pages. Both have their boCMS db's on different servers, both derive the data from different servers.
IIS is the web server. The only common denominator is the actual installation software itself and the person who installed it (me).
On Friday, instead of running the reports in Enterprise/Preview or Infoview (both exhibit the problem) I switched from our default activeX to DHTML, and advanced DHTML. No improvement (Our report wouldn't work with Java, which we never use)
On the suggestion of the SAP/BO support girl, I then SCHEDULED the report for immediate running and chose WordRTF as the format. This works fine.
So on that evidence I suspect a software glitch that is specific to using Infoview to open the report rather than schedule it - the two processes must access the WordRTF translator in different ways.
I'm hoping there is a patch or hotfix that can solve it. Sadly, our users don't have the appetite for the few extra clicks to use the workaround so we're going to have to pursue it with BO unless the forum comes up with an answer - perhaps its something I didn't do properly on installation, or a CMC/CMS setting. We've got 2m row limit on the page server but the report's row count is nothing like that and, anyway, it works if scheduled.
I'm really grateful to you for taking the time to reply, I hope the above answers your question - if I had hair to pull out, I'd be doing just that!
Kind regards
Tony W

Table over 1 page in length won't start on page with text already on it

I posted this in reply to a comment a while ago, and never got a reply. Pardon the faux pas if I shouldn't repost:
I do lots of multi-page tables that have a large number of cells with single line of text in each cell. The one I'm looking at right now has a row height of 0.21" for 42 rows. There are four lines of text on the page above where the table should start, and when I insert the table from Numbers, it jumps to the first line of the next page and cascades as it should. In Pages 2, I could insert a layout break after the last character of text on the page, set the top layout margin to 0.125" and the table would start on the first line of the new layout, cascading over any additional pages necessary.
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Hello,
If you place an object on Master page, that object gets locked for pages (on which that master page is applied) and cannot be edited.
When you place a content on master page, Muse puts the actual content and not just the container. So if you want different text on diferent pages, you need to place the txt boxes separately on all the pages.
Regarding your white box covering the Menu, You can copy your white box from master page and then go to your age where you want it and do a Edit>Paste in Place. It should place the white box on the page on the exact same location where it was on the Master page. This box on page is now editable for you.
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I have a gif image that, if printed, comes out all compacted (read: much too small) on one page. It is so small that it cannot really serve as a poster that I want to hang in my classroom.
My desired result is to take the image and somehow split / divide it so that I can print it over multiple pages, and the image be properly sized, which I can then connect to make a poster.
Any ideas how to get this done with Fireworks?
Thanks all! :-)

Illustrator is good for this. Its Print dialog allows for page tiling with adjustable overlap and includes a thumbnail preview.
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Scrolling display gray/white boxes (chess board pattern)

When I am scrolling down in an email, it displays a "checkered page" with small gray and white boxes before each page loads. Is that normal?

Yes. That is a temporary screen while it downloads more info from the server.

The Report create white espace in a page.

Hi!
I have a Report.rpt with this estructure and agrupations:
Agrupation 1
Agrupation 2
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All the sections of this grups contain keep together and the group 2 contain a page break.
When I generate the report sometimes it have a white page as follows:
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The whole point of keep group together ensures that the next group does not break over a page. Consequently there will have to be white space at the bottom of the page holding the preceding group.
What would you want Crystal to do. Produce a special shorter page
Ian

Checkerboard background in pages pallette

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I am working in ID CS. I added some clipart to a master and now the background of the page icon in the page pallete and master has a grey and white checkerboard background. Does anyone know why? When I removed the clipart the background went away, I have tried both .gif and .pdf file types. thanks!

That indicates transparency on the page.
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How to load one report page at a time for heavy reports of over 100 pages.

Three banks merged together and now my reports have to pull massive combined data of all 3 banks. Even after tuning the queries, applying indexs, its taking long to load. A normal report now has over 100 pages.
Do you know if I can just load 1 page at a time and show it to user so the user donot have to wait for all 100 or more pages to load before they can see the whole report...? Kind of spooling...or something.
Thank you.
Edited by: Aditi_Seth on Jul 28, 2010 2:54 PM

I am not aware of a simple solution to set the file name. You need to set the content-disposition, but I don't think this is possible with any of the report parameters. A workaround is to save to save the report as a pdf file (destype=file&desname=myreport.pdf), and then open it in the browser after the report is finished.
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How do I run a table over multiple pages?

Hi I write TV scripts using a simple two column table which can be many rows long - how can I get Pages to automatically run the table over multiple pages whilst still allowing me to cut and paste and rearrange the script? This is simple in Word and must work in pages but I can't work out how to get it to work. I've tried looking at the Page Break feature but it won't come up from the table?
many thanks

At this time, There is no way to drive tables in Pages with AppleScript.
Do your job in Numbers which allow that.
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Can I use preview to export multiple page PDF as jpegs?

Using Preview, I export multiple page PDF as jpeg and results are the first page only as jpeg. Can I use preview to export multiple page PDF as jpeg for every page?

Automator is great for this if you need to export many pages to JPG, or just have to do this often.
Two other quick and dirty way sto get it done:
(1) Enable thumbnail view, click on the ONE PAGE you want to convert to jpg, then choose "export." If you choose more than one page, only the first will get exported to jpg.
(2) Create a copy of the file, delete all the pages except the one you want to export to JPG, and export that page. You may be able to "undo" the delete, get all your pages back again, and re-delete all but the one you want to export, etc. I would not recommend doing this on the original version of the file because of Preview's autosave so-called "feature."

Hello Apple community... I am trying to combine multiple pdf's into one, using preview, but when I drag the additional pages they show up as separate documents.

I am trying to combine multiple pdf's into one, using preview, but when I drag the additional pages they show up as separate documents. When I drag the doc in a line would show up in the past, and if I went above th eline all was good. It doesn't have a line, and no matter what I try I am having no success.
Please help!

According to an Apple Support article, unless there are unforeseen issues
in file ownership or permissions, the combining of .PDFs should be simple.
•OS X: Combining PDF documents using Preview - Apple Support
There are a few variable and similar methods, some change with version
of OS X in use; some vintage OS X may vary a little in the process...
A variety of similar topics appear in search results, with terms:
" mac os x combine pdf into one " such as this page shows...
https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=mac%20os%20x%20combine%20pdf%20into%20one
If the system is older than Mavericks there may be other methods to try.
Suggestions are among linked results in the search. I see a few fair ones.
•Here's another that offers generally similar suggestions...* this info looks OK, extra links, do not:
http://osxdaily.com/2014/06/27/how-to-join-multiple-pdf-files-into-a-single-pdf- document-in-mac-os-x/
{ note: avoid clicking on links to products in * this ^ page, since they likely will not help & may be adware prone }
If you have a problem after trying other methods, based on an OS X
your computer is running, post back with more exact information...
Good luck & happy computing!
edited

Iphoto 9.5.1 displays only raw photos correctly. If I correct redeye or touch up a photo I get white boxes over the eyes(if correcting redeye) or the thumbnail and photo turns mostly white. Note: I have an NVIDIA card.

Do you remember the days when Apple wrote robust code ? The latest updates have not been great.
Maybe the programers are outsourced to a foriegn country now or Noobs out of school ?
It looks like someone isn't paying attention to the editing layer... I write code. and when you edit an image you store the update in another layer. The method enables you to easily undo edits.   I "upgraded" to 10.9.1 and was forced to update iPhoto.    After I uploaded photos from my camera I noticed redeye reduction results in just white squares over the eyes. I also noticed issues if I attempt any photo edit funcition in iPhoto.
This means to me that iPhoto 's editor is saving video from the wrong memory location.
I have a NVIDIA card because I write CUDA applications on my Mac. An NVIDIA card enables me to write CUDA and OpenCL apps.
Here's what happens if I attempt to straighten an image:
Origianal:
After Edit:
Here's what happens if I attempt to use the Redeye reduction tool:
As you can see Mavericks may have made some improvements but overall it does not get the job done as it used to.
I am willing to bet that your graphics code has devolved into ATI centric code.
I booted into macos 7.5.1 and the issue with the same hardware older operating system and apps works fine.    I just wish I never deleted my 10.6.8 install. 10.6.8 was the most stable on the MacPro.   Everything worked.     From 10.7 up I've noticed a decline in dependability.
Can you please fix this or design a work around ?    Switching over to an ATI graphics card is NOT a good answer.
Also I noticed Cinebench R15 benchmarks are higher in 7.5.1 verses 10.9.1

Where in that other topic is the manufacturer of the graphic card or even a graphic card mentioned.? You may have known what kind of card you had but we're not mind readers.
Since it appears to be a incompatibility between that particular card, Mavericks and iPhoto you should keep telling Apple about it by contacting them via
http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphoto.html
http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html
http://www.apple.com/feedback/macbookpro.html
http://www.apple.com/feedback/mac-pro.html
whichever is appropriate for your particular situation. It's the squeaky wheel that gets the attention.
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