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Some PDF files I open in Google chrome are completely unreadable, here's an example picture:
This is the original PDF.
They are shown fine on normal pdf viewers like Acrobat or Sumatra.
I have chrome version version 59 and haven't really found anything on the net.
What should I try?
Thanks for the help!
I also tried enabling or disabling hardware acceleration in chrome, but it didn't help. The problem is that there are no pdf viewer settings in chrome at all, so I have no idea what to try.
Not sure about the image quality, but have you tried CutePDF Writer? It's always seemed to work pretty well for me when i didn't have Adobe tools handy.
Edit: changing the transparent CE.gif image to have a solid white background, then re-including it, helped immensely. I used Paint.NET to load the image, add a layer under the CE, fill with white, flatten, then re-save as CEsolid.gif. Insert that into Word and print with CutePDF helps.
Below is a screenshot of a PDF printed from Word with the transparent image next to the same image with a white background.
Also, if you dig through the CutePDF settings, you can set the graphic quality. On the Print dialog, click Properties, Paper/Quality tab, Advanced, then Graphic/Print Quality. Can set up to 4000dpi. Not sure how much that helps in this case, but FYI.
There are some PDF editors which can remove the margins from a PDF. I use Nitro PDF, but it's not free. I think there are some free ones that can do the same thing.
Best Answer
I had the same issue, just uninstalled a font called "Alien League Tech", rebooted, and all came back to normal. Explanation is here: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-start/wrong-graffiti-font-in-apps-and-web-pages-after/eb9f39c0-989a-41a0-91d6-8b8ac44cc298
Other way of solving: Enabling the "Disable DirectWrite" experiment on the Chrome Flags page ( chrome://flags/#disable-direct-write ).