<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'>Re: it is a bug in pdflatex or Apple PDFKit: almost certainly the latter, since a slight change<div>in the magnification removes the distortion (for me). This would not be true if the problem </div><div>were in <span style="font-size: 12pt; ">the underlying pdf file, would it?</span></div><div><br><br><hr id="zwchr"><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><b>From: </b>"Victor Ivrii" <vivrii@gmail.com><br><b>To: </b>"TeX on Mac OS X Mailing List" <macosx-tex@email.esm.psu.edu><br><b>Sent: </b>Saturday, April 20, 2013 6:43:47 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [OS X TeX] Fwd: Slight pdf distortions in preview (TeXshop<br><br><div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 6:23 PM, Warren Nagourney <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:wnagourney@comcast.net" target="_blank">wnagourney@comcast.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">I haven't noticed this on TexWorks (I don't have Adobe Reader). I have a strong dislike for almost everything about TW and would rather put up with these distortions than use it (I find that I feel this way about many cross-platform apps).<div>
<br></div><div>wn</div><div><br><div><div>On Apr 20, 2013, at 3:07 PM, Victor Ivrii <<a href="mailto:vivrii@gmail.com" target="_blank">vivrii@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br><blockquote><div dir="ltr">Try to check if the same distortion appears in TeXWorks and Adobe Reader: Preview, TS and Skim are PDFKit based, while TW is poppler based and AR has an Adobe engine.</div>
</blockquote></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div style="">You can download AR which is the only full featured PDF browser. I am not using TW usually as well but the question was: is distortion a defect of the produced pdf document (and then it isa bug either in pdflatex or in the package you use) or it is a bug in Apple PDFKit. It looks like it is a latter.</div>
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