Illustrator PDFs not rendering properly in Apple Preview, but are ok in Acrobat after Sequoia update

Question

Just wondering if anyone else is having this problem after updating to MacOS Squoia 15.0.
Illustrator is running ok (as far as I've explored), but the pdf's I'm getting after export are looking screwy when opened by Preview.

Here's how the file looks in Illustrator, or when the pdf is opened by Acrobat (ie everything is correct)

But here's how it looks when opene by Preview, or when I print it (the type and graphics that were white have changed to black, sometimes with a white outline)

Do I just give it a few days for Adobe to patch?

Thanks 🙂

Monika Gause · Answer

Preview could never be trusted in terms of accuracy. It doesn't support a couple of things that can be in a PDF.

Just so that it's clear: if the PDF is OK in Acrobat, then the problem is not in Illustrator.

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