{"id":20360,"date":"2018-01-30T17:41:30","date_gmt":"2018-01-30T22:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=20360"},"modified":"2019-02-01T16:33:47","modified_gmt":"2019-02-01T21:33:47","slug":"fixing-pdfs-whose-pages-render-as-black-rectangles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/30\/fixing-pdfs-whose-pages-render-as-black-rectangles\/","title":{"rendered":"Fixing PDFs Whose Pages Render as Black Rectangles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tidbits.com\/article\/17749\">Adam C. Engst<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/tidbits.com\/article\/17749\">\n<p>When he sent me the PDF, it opened and displayed fine in Preview on my Mac, running the same versions of macOS and Preview.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The solution may have been simple, but it was far from obvious. User oakcan reported suffering from the same problem and resolved it by calibrating his display. Chris Lee said that recalibrating the display worked for him too.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>The PDF issue I&rsquo;ve been seeing lately is pages that render as <em>white<\/em> rectangles, but only intermittently (e.g. after switching back from another app).<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously: <a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/03\/pdfkit-improves-somewhat-in-high-sierra\/\">PDFKit Improves Somewhat in High Sierra<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p>Update (2018-01-30): <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OhMDee\/status\/958508758530838528\">Dan Masters<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OhMDee\/status\/958508758530838528\">\n<p>This happens all the time in iBooks &#x2013; maybe Apple should allow us to recalibrate iOS displays too &#x1F604;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p id=\"fixing-pdfs-whose-pages-render-as-black-rectangles-update-2019-01-31\">Update (2019-01-31): Alas, I&rsquo;m still seeing the problem with white pages on macOS 10.14.3.<\/p>\n\n<p id=\"fixing-pdfs-whose-pages-render-as-black-rectangles-update-2019-02-01\">Update (2019-02-01): <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/fzwob\/status\/1091088841694478336\">Friedrich Markgraf<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/fzwob\/status\/1091088841694478336\">\n<p>Had a DHL shipping label PDF. Looked good in Preview, strange artifacts in Chrome, and totally unusable printed from Preview. Had to print a screenshot.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adam C. Engst: When he sent me the PDF, it opened and displayed fine in Preview on my Mac, running the same versions of macOS and Preview. [&#8230;] The solution may have been simple, but it was far from obvious. User oakcan reported suffering from the same problem and resolved it by calibrating his display. 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