Graphical bug viewing PDF in Safari So, I'm looking at a PDF in Safari 12.0 off JSTOR. And it appears like this:



Which definitely isn't how it should be rendered. But more concerningly, this persists with a number of PDFs from ScienceDirect, Elsevier, and other academic journal aggregators.

This problem doesn't persist in Chrome for the same documents.

Has this problem been encountered before, and are there any fixes?
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