Preview Problems

We’re hearing some isolated reports that Preview on OSX sometimes does strange things with the Rails book PDF. Two people have reported that our italic code font is invisible. One person reports that the navigation panel doesn’t show the chapters and sections. But here’s the scary thing. Reboot your Mac, and the problems go away. And there aren’t any problems with Acrobat reader.

I can’t reproduce this here on my Macs: the book was developed exclusively in an OSX environment and I’ve never seen the problem. So I’m wondering if anyone out there has any ideas on how to attack this. It’d be easy to shrug and say it’s a bug in Preview, but I’d rather find a workaround than inconvenience folks using the One True Operating System. (dave at pragprog . com)