Princeton University Library | Reserves & Electronic Reserves

Reserves and E-Reserves include materials placed on reserve for the current semester as well as a collection of heavily used titles previously on reserve.

We have recently become aware that certain versions of Mac Preview are incompatible with some PDF files. For some users, this means that only the cover page is displaying. Other users have reported that the downloaded article appears to be missing the first portion of the article. The articles are in fact intact and complete, but some pages are not displayed properly. We apologize for the problems that this is causing for Mac users.

For now, the quickest workaround is to download the latest free copy of Adobe Reader, available on the Adobe web site:

http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2_allversions.html

Once Adobe Reader is downloaded, please check to make sure that the default PDF viewer is set to Adobe Reader rather than the original PDF viewer installed on your Mac.

The default viewer for PDF documents in Mac OS X is Preview. To change the file association for PDF files:

Select any PDF file and choose File > Get Info.
Choose the application that you want to open PDF files from the Open With menu.
Click Change All, and then click Continue.