Trouble with Preview pdf

When I open pdf documents in Preview 4.2 (that were generated by Acrobat Pro - XP system), some of the elements that were created by the draw/comment tools do not appear. They do show-up if the document is opened in Acrobat Reader 9.
What I really want to be able to do is save pdf files in alternate formats (jpeg, tif, gif etc). Acrobat Reader will not support saving in alternate formats - Preview does convert to alt. formats, but does not show all elements so documents are incomplete - Is there a setting/work around/patch for Preview that allow it to recognize all elements of a pdf document or is there another reader that will save pdfs in alternate formats?.......J Brent

I'm having exactly the same problem! I've tried to alter the preferences without any luck. Sorry I can't help but I feel your pain.

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Hi,
I don't know if this is the correct answer, but you can open a PDF in Preview and save the document as a JPEG and JPEG-2000. I know that Leopard will also have some neat functionality about this as well. You might also want to look at printing as a postscript file rather than a PDF and then open in Photoshop. I talked with a FEDEX/Kinkos employee yesterday about my book at he stated that Macs use 1.5 while Adobe's Acrobat is 1.7. Leopard should also fix this, but it may not help right now.
HTH

Anyone else having trouble with Preview?

I work with graphic files (pdfs, tiffs, jpegs) on a daily basis and use Preview extensively. For the past several weeks, Preview crashes multiple times/day upon the simplest of tasks such as opening up a small pdf file. This happens on both my office computer (brand new iMac with clean Yosemite install) as well as at home (mac mini with current Yosemite), so I'm thinking mine is not a unique situation.
The beauty of it is that upon re-opening Preview, it automatically re-opens the file that caused the crash. When I close the image file, it crashes again - starting an endless cycle. Here's a portion of the output from the crash report:
Process: Preview [86698]
Path: /Applications/Preview.app/Contents/MacOS/Preview
Identifier: com.apple.Preview
Version: 8.0 (859.21)
Build Info: Preview-859021000000000~1
Code Type: X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process: ??? [1]
Responsible: Preview [86698]
User ID: 501
Date/Time: 2015-04-29 09:11:00.438 -0500
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.10.3 (14D136)
Report Version: 11
Anonymous UUID: C920CD9A-EA6B-B237-41A6-430A6CFCB2E3
Time Awake Since Boot: 430000 seconds
Crashed Thread: 3 Dispatch queue: CA::CG::Queue
Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)
Exception Codes: EXC_I386_GPFLT
Thread 0:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
0 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff8a888f3b -[NSTextFieldCell _textAttributes] + 380
1 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff8a892c04 __NSGetStringAndAttributesFromTextCell + 886
2 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff8a8922be _NSGetTextCellBoundingRect + 125
3 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff8a897784 -[NSTextFieldCell drawingRectForBounds:] + 850
4 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff8a9251ce -[NSSearchFieldCell _cancelButtonInsetForBounds:userInterfaceLayoutDirection:] + 93
5 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff8a924b3e -[NSSearchFieldCell searchTextRectForBounds:focused:] + 384
6 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff8a92e837 -[NSSearchFieldCell drawingRectForBounds:] + 105
7 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff8a89d161 -[NSTextFieldCell titleRectForBounds:] + 109
8 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff8a89cff7 -[NSControl canSmoothFontsInLayer] + 328
9 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff8a8ce2bd -[NSView(NSInternal) _layerDrawingNeedsLinearMaskOverlayForFontSmoothing] + 30
10 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff8a8ce250 -[NSTextLayer(NSTextLayer_Internal) NS_needsLinearMaskOverlayForFontSmoothing] + 80
11 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff8a8ce375 -[CALayer(NSTextLayerAddition) NS_shouldChangeFontSmoothing] + 17
12 com.apple.UIFoundation 0x00007fff8ea5d979 -[NSLineFragmentRenderingContext drawAtPoint:inContext:] + 3688
13 com.apple.UIFoundation 0x00007fff8e982538 __NSStringDrawingEngine + 16941
14 com.apple.UIFoundation 0x00007fff8e97c70f _NSStringDrawingCore + 150
15 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff8ad16706 _NSDrawTextCell2 + 6983
16 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff8a89be28 __47-[NSTextFieldCell drawLayer:inGraphicsContext:]_block_invoke + 576
17 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff8a89bbb8 +[NSAppearance _performWithCurrentAppearance:usingBlock:] + 79
18 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff8a89bb59 -[NSTextFieldCell drawLayer:inGraphicsContext:] + 225
19 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff8a927371 -[NSSearchFieldCell drawLayer:inGraphicsContext:] + 190
20 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff8a89b685 +[NSGraphicsContext configureGraphicsContextForCALayer:withCGContext:andRenderWithHandler:] + 97
21 com.apple.QuartzCore 0x00007fff83ae13c7 CABackingStoreUpdate_ + 3306
22 com.apple.QuartzCore 0x00007fff83ae06d7 ___ZN2CA5Layer8display_Ev_block_invoke + 59
23 com.apple.QuartzCore 0x00007fff83ae0694 x_blame_allocations + 81
24 com.apple.QuartzCore 0x00007fff83ad443c CA::Layer::display_() + 1546
25 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff8a89b52b _NSBackingLayerDisplay + 617
26 com.apple.QuartzCore 0x00007fff83ad27fd CA::Layer::display_if_needed(CA::Transaction*) + 603
27 com.apple.QuartzCore 0x00007fff83ad1e81 CA::Layer::layout_and_display_if_needed(CA::Transaction*) + 35
28 com.apple.QuartzCore 0x00007fff83ad1612 CA::Context::commit_transaction(CA::Transaction*) + 242
29 com.apple.QuartzCore 0x00007fff83ad13ae CA::Transaction::commit() + 390
30 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff8a8ca844 _handleWindowNeedsDisplayOrLayoutOrUpdateConstraints + 1130
31 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff8b000191 __83-[NSWindow _postWindowNeedsDisplayOrLayoutOrUpdateConstraintsUnlessPostingDisabled]_block_ invoke1540 + 46
32 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x00007fff897ce127 __CFRUNLOOP_IS_CALLING_OUT_TO_AN_OBSERVER_CALLBACK_FUNCTION__ + 23
33 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x00007fff897ce080 __CFRunLoopDoObservers + 368
34 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x00007fff897c0188 __CFRunLoopRun + 872
35 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x00007fff897bfbd8 CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 296
36 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x00007fff8b8aa56f RunCurrentEventLoopInMode + 235
37 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x00007fff8b8aa1ee ReceiveNextEventCommon + 179
38 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x00007fff8b8aa12b _BlockUntilNextEventMatchingListInModeWithFilter + 71
39 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff8a8c79bb _DPSNextEvent + 978
40 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff8a8c6f68 -[NSApplication nextEventMatchingMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] + 346
41 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff8a8bcbf3 -[NSApplication run] + 594
42 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff8a839354 NSApplicationMain + 1832
43 libdyld.dylib 0x00007fff87e0b5c9 start + 1
Thread 1:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.libdispatch-manager
0 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0x00007fff82a1b232 kevent64 + 10
1 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff86251a6a _dispatch_mgr_thread + 52
Thread 2:
0 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0x00007fff82a1a94a __workq_kernreturn + 10
1 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x00007fff80e0940d start_wqthread + 13
Thread 3 Crashed:: Dispatch queue: CA::CG::Queue
0 com.apple.CoreGraphics 0x00007fff8f52a782 pdf_xref_resolve + 65
1 com.apple.CoreGraphics 0x00007fff8f52992c CGPDFDictionaryGetObject + 77
2 com.apple.CoreGraphics 0x00007fff8f554e85 CGPDFDictionaryGetStream + 18
3 com.apple.CoreGraphics 0x00007fff8f9accda pdf_source_create_jbig2_filter + 85
4 com.apple.CoreGraphics 0x00007fff8f535c4f add_filter + 643
5 com.apple.CoreGraphics 0x00007fff8f535973 pdf_filter_chain_create + 818
6 com.apple.CoreGraphics 0x00007fff8f53559c CGPDFStreamCreateFilterChain + 64
7 com.apple.CoreGraphics 0x00007fff8f555677 chain_get_bytes + 38
8 com.apple.CoreGraphics 0x00007fff8f563924 CGAccessSessionGetChunks + 372
9 com.apple.CoreGraphics 0x00007fff8f4ea53b img_decode_read + 1756
10 com.apple.CoreGraphics 0x00007fff8f4e7979 img_data_lock + 8472
11 com.apple.CoreGraphics 0x00007fff8f4e48da CGSImageDataLock + 151
12 libRIP.A.dylib 0x00007fff89b44a52 ripc_AcquireImage + 906
13 libRIP.A.dylib 0x00007fff89b43575 ripc_DrawImage + 1037
14 com.apple.CoreGraphics 0x00007fff8f4e4597 CGContextDrawImage + 357
15 com.apple.QuartzCore 0x00007fff83adc1d5 CA::Render::(anonymous namespace)::create_image_by_rendering(CGImage*, CGColorSpace*, unsigned int) + 597
16 com.apple.QuartzCore 0x00007fff83ad5c84 CA::Render::create_image(CGImage*, CGColorSpace*, unsigned int) + 2212
17 com.apple.QuartzCore 0x00007fff83ad524b CA::Render::copy_image(CGImage*, CGColorSpace*, unsigned int, double) + 382
18 com.apple.QuartzCore 0x00007fff83b4528f CA::CG::fill_image(CA::CG::Renderer&, CGImage*, CA::Rect const&, CA::Mat2<double> const&, bool, bool, CGInterpolationQuality, CA::Bounds const*) + 1442
19 com.apple.QuartzCore 0x00007fff83b44cdf CA::CG::DrawImage::draw_image(CA::CG::Renderer&, bool) const + 109
20 com.apple.QuartzCore 0x00007fff83b33ede CA::CG::DrawOp::render(CA::CG::Renderer&) const + 1172
21 com.apple.QuartzCore 0x00007fff83b32456 CA::CG::Queue::render_callback(void*) + 332
22 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff8624ec13 _dispatch_client_callout + 8
23 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff86252365 _dispatch_queue_drain + 1100
24 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff86253ecc _dispatch_queue_invoke + 202
25 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff862516b7 _dispatch_root_queue_drain + 463
26 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff8625ffe4 _dispatch_worker_thread3 + 91
27 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x00007fff80e0b637 _pthread_wqthread + 729
28 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x00007fff80e0940d start_wqthread + 13
Thread 4:
0 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0x00007fff82a1a94a __workq_kernreturn + 10
1 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x00007fff80e0940d start_wqthread + 13
Thread 5:
0 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0x00007fff82a1a94a __workq_kernreturn + 10
1 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x00007fff80e0940d start_wqthread + 13
Thread 6:
0 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0x00007fff82a1a94a __workq_kernreturn + 10
1 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x00007fff80e0940d start_wqthread + 13
Thread 7:
0 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0x00007fff82a1a94a __workq_kernreturn + 10
1 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x00007fff80e0940d start_wqthread + 13
Thread 8:
0 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0x00007fff82a1a94a __workq_kernreturn + 10
1 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x00007fff80e0940d start_wqthread + 13
Thread 9:
0 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0x00007fff82a1a94a __workq_kernreturn + 10
1 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x00007fff80e0940d start_wqthread + 13
Thread 10:
0 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0x00007fff82a1a94a __workq_kernreturn + 10
1 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x00007fff80e0940d start_wqthread + 13
Thread 11:
0 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0x00007fff82a1a94a __workq_kernreturn + 10
1 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x00007fff80e0940d start_wqthread + 13
Thread 12:: CVDisplayLink
0 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0x00007fff82a1a136 __psynch_cvwait + 10
1 com.apple.CoreVideo 0x00007fff8a181ff8 CVDisplayLink::waitUntil(unsigned long long) + 240
2 com.apple.CoreVideo 0x00007fff8a1814b3 CVDisplayLink::runIOThread() + 511
3 com.apple.CoreVideo 0x00007fff8a18129b startIOThread(void*) + 147
4 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x00007fff80e0b268 _pthread_body + 131
5 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x00007fff80e0b1e5 _pthread_start + 176
6 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x00007fff80e0941d thread_start + 13
Thread 13:
0 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0x00007fff82a1a94a __workq_kernreturn + 10
1 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x00007fff80e0940d start_wqthread + 13
Thread 14:
0 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0x00007fff82a1a94a __workq_kernreturn + 10
1 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x00007fff80e0940d start_wqthread + 13
Thread 15:
0 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0x00007fff82a1a94a __workq_kernreturn + 10
1 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x00007fff80e0940d start_wqthread + 13
Thread 16:
0 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0x00007fff82a1a94a __workq_kernreturn + 10
1 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x00007fff80e0940d start_wqthread + 13
Thread 17:
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1 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0x00007fff82a1464f mach_msg + 55
2 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x00007fff897c0eb4 __CFRunLoopServiceMachPort + 212
3 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x00007fff897c037b __CFRunLoopRun + 1371
4 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x00007fff897bfbd8 CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 296
5 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff8a98f66b _NSEventThread + 137
6 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x00007fff80e0b268 _pthread_body + 131
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8 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x00007fff80e0941d thread_start + 13
Thread 18:
0 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0x00007fff82a1a94a __workq_kernreturn + 10
1 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x00007fff80e0940d start_wqthread + 13
Thread 19:
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1 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x00007fff80e0940d start_wqthread + 13
Thread 20:
0 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0x00007fff82a1a94a __workq_kernreturn + 10
1 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x00007fff80e0940d start_wqthread + 13
Thread 21:
0 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0x00007fff82a1a94a __workq_kernreturn + 10
1 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x00007fff80e0940d start_wqthread + 13
Thread 22:
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1 com.apple.Foundation 0x00007fff8c0615c0 +[NSThread sleepForTimeInterval:] + 154
2 com.apple.PDFKit 0x00007fff89689890 -[PDFDisplayView periodicFlushRoutine:] + 91
3 com.apple.Foundation 0x00007fff8bff4dc2 __NSThread__main__ + 1345
4 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x00007fff80e0b268 _pthread_body + 131
5 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x00007fff80e0b1e5 _pthread_start + 176
6 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x00007fff80e0941d thread_start + 13
Thread 3 crashed with X86 Thread State (64-bit):
rax: 0x3f800000d1893600 rbx: 0x000060800012d0c0 rcx: 0x0000000000000120 rdx: 0x0000000060a80000
rdi: 0x000060800012d110 rsi: 0x0000000000000016 rbp: 0x0000000106354ed0 rsp: 0x0000000106354e80
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r12: 0x3f800000d1893720 r13: 0x0000000000000009 r14: 0x000060800012d110 r15: 0x0000000060a80000
rip: 0x00007fff8f52a782 rfl: 0x0000000000010202 cr2: 0x0000000113503000
Logical CPU: 0
Error Code: 0x00000000
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hey All!
Here is my problem, I have 10.4.2 installed on my IMac and my powerbook, and quick time pro for both. The problem is, that when I view movies in finder on my IMac, it shows up as a preview in finder. This however is not the case on my powerbook, where the round ball just keeps spinning ending up with no preview. I have installed VLC on both computers as well, but no matter what I do I cant get it working on my powerbook! Plz help!
Thanks in advance
Ehlerz

Open the Audio MIDI Setup on the offending computer (the Powerbook).
Set the Audio Output Format to 44100Hz. Quit and restart.
You should also set up a new user account (great for testing things) and try the offending file again.

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Have you tried closing out of the program and logging back in? There may have been a hiccup in the server.
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i was having some software problem some months ago where many applications (photoshop, illustrator, sketchup, safari, mail, preview) were crashing constantly... i took my macbook to the tech guy and he said that i should do "erase and install"... I cleaned the HD, did the e&i process once with tiger, twice with leopard and it seemed to fix most problems with all the apps except Preview... on the third attempt i simply deleted Preview and installed it directly from the leopard disk it worked the first time but the second time it crashed once again... whenever i try to edit a pic and save it, it will crash and report stuff like this on the dialog:
Exception Type: EXCBADACCESS (SIGBUS)
Exception Codes: KERNPROTECTIONFAILURE at 0x0000000000000000
Crashed Thread: 0
Thread 0 Crashed:
0 com.apple.QuartzCore 0x94bc3719 fefragment_renderquad + 161
Thread 0 crashed with X86 Thread State (32-bit):
eax: 0x00000000 ebx: 0x94bc368c ecx: 0xbfff8348 edx: 0x00000004
edi: 0xbfff839c esi: 0xbfff83cc ebp: 0xbfff7fb8 esp: 0xbfff70f0
ss: 0x0000001f efl: 0x00010202 eip: 0x94bc3719 cs: 0x00000017
ds: 0x0000001f es: 0x0000001f fs: 0x00000000 gs: 0x00000037
cr2: 0x00000000
and some other long dialog that i can't understand... i've tried reaching out for help on the boards and apple technicians but they don't seem to know what's wrong... since the erase and install isn't working...
please help ...

Hi Llore_pr!
Sorry to hear you're having issues. Throughout your dealings with other people on this issue has anyone had you reset the PRAM?
[Resetting your Mac's PRAM and NVRAM|http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=2238]
This error message looks oddly familiar to something I had seen recently on a buddy's computer with VLC. We "zapped" the PRAM and the problem went away and has yet to rear its ugly head.

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