Anybody with a MAC ever have problems with the Preview PDF Viewer?

[BoldAsLove]

My Preview PDF viewer no longer wants to bring up PDFs. It all started when it didnt like this one PDF I had gotten. Since then, every PDF I have thrown at it, it opens up the program, but it just sits there and opens nothing while bringing up the "Application is not responding" and then the "force quit" button. Anyone know what I could do? Is there a place online where I could redownload it?

 

[Platypus]

Have you rebooted your box since then?

 

[slackerinabox]

Is your hard drive full? My boss' mac wouldn't open PDFs when there wasn't enough space left to cache files.

 

[BoldAsLove]

Originally posted by: Platypus
Have you rebooted your box since then?

yes

 

[BoldAsLove]

Originally posted by: freedomsbeat212
Is your hard drive full? My boss' mac wouldn't open PDFs when there wasn't enough space left to cache files.

5GB left...not much..but enough.

 

[Shawn]

Why do people always put Mac in all capital letters? It's an abbreviation not an acronym.

 

[Platypus]

Longshot:

Try whacking u*.pfb" in /Library/Fonts.
(BACKUP FIRST)

 

[BoldAsLove]

nothing..bump!

 

[Platypus]

Did you try that?

 

[BoldAsLove]

i didnt really understand what you meant

 

[Platypus]

.... go inside /Library/Fonts/

Remove any font starting with u and ending with .pfb.

Back them up first.

 

[BoldAsLove]

i couldnt find any of those

 

[Shawn]

If all else fails install Acrobat Reader.

 

[Injury]

preview sucks. The only thing it has going for it is that it opens up really fast.

 

[thirdlegstump]

Did you call Apple? What did they say?

 

[MercenaryForHire]

I fail to see what a Media Access Controller has to do with viewing PDFs

- M4H

 

[manly]

Delete the prefs file.

 

[BoldAsLove]

I just downloaded acrobat...I wasnt aware of a mac version. So preview still wont work, but whatever.

 

[randomlinh]

Originally posted by: Injury
preview sucks. The only thing it has going for it is that it opens up really fast.

I belive that's exactly why people use it