Mac preview vs Adobe acrobat reader DC - pdflatex

I had this question after this discussion. The problem is Mac Preview behaves differently than Adobe acrobat reader DC. The pdf is compile with pdflatex. Here is MWE.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\hypersetup{pdftitle={main.pdf},
colorlinks=false,
linkbordercolor=red
}
\begin{document}
\tableofcontents
\section{test}
\section{test2}
This is testing hyperref
\end{document}
and the results in preview and Adobe acrobat reader are
and
respectively. This also looks perfectly alright in the internal viewer of my editor (texstudio).
Que: why can't I see red boundaries in preview?

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Opening an EPS file in Inkscape causes weird line artifacts

I'm trying to edit a vector graphics file from Freepik. The format is EPS and after installing both Inkscape and Ghostscript on Windows, I'm able to open the file with Inkscape. However, Inkscape introduces some weird artifacts (see lines and wrong colors in the picture below).
Side by side comparison, original vector (left) and SVG saved after opening the EPS file in Inkscape (right)
Is there a way to fix this issue?
It's a little difficult to tell, partly because this is a complex illustration and partly because the rendering is a little small. I'd suggest that the circular artefacts are caused by radial fills not being rendered completely.
This could simply be a rendering problem with Inkscape, or it could be that the radial fill has an Extend parameter which isn't being honoured. It could also be a problem calculating a clip.
It's not entirely obvious what you used to render the left hand image, is that Ghostscript ?
Generally I'd say this looks like an Inkscape bug and you should report it as such.
Edit
Reading through the Inkscape FAQ it seems that Inkscape uses SVG as its native format. That's going to mean that an awful lot of PostScript (and PDF) vector objects aren't going to be represented well. Shadings will either have to be rendered to an image or converted into a complex series of SVG primitives.
Following the link on 'How to open EPS files in Windows' from the FAQ suggests to me that EPS files are either rendered to an image or converted to PDF.
You could use Ghostscript to convert the EPS to PDF yourself, and then try loading the PDF into Inkscape to see if you get a better result. You can also open the PDF in, say, Acrobat to see if it looks OK there.
If the PDF looks fine in Acrobat, but not so good in Inkscape, then I'd say that's an Inkscape problem. If the PDF looks poor in Acrobat then that's a Ghostscript problem.
You can then report the problem as a bug to the appropriate site.
It seems that EPS has more capabilities than SVG and that's why some stuff looks weird when converted to PDF/SVG. Specifically, highlights in an EPS file are not properly rendered in an SVG file.
I checked the conversion from EPS to PDF via Ghostscript and the lines are already there, i.e. it's not an Inkscape bug.
Here's the original file to reproduce the problem:
https://www.freepik.com/free-vector/data-processing-factory-isometric-technology_8625296.htm
And here's what it looks like after converting it to PDF: The artifacts are not as noticeable on the PDF file, possibly because Ghostscript converts it with a higher DPI by default
My workaround to be able to edit the file (remove the background) was to:
open the EPS with Inkscape, ungroup the items
delete the background
export it as PNG
then use the PNG as a "mask" on GIMP to edit the JPG file that came together with the EPS.

SVG file messed up in Illustrator CC

I used an online LaTeX tool to create an .svg file. It looks perfect in IE browser, but is completely messed up in Illustrator CC. Any idea how to fix that?
Open in Inkscape
save as .ps
open in Illustrator.

How "intelligent" is the PDF (ISO) standard: Capable of detecting a BW-printer and adapting accordingly?

With this question (of 2010) as a starting point, is there a way to generate a colourful PDF file (via *TeX) such that it would always be printed in black-and-white, iff the printer can't print colours (a black-and-white printer)?
In other words: How "intelligent" is the PDF (ISO) standard?
See ISO_32000-1 and also here.
Edit
The upshot of this "exercise" is not for printing on your own office or home printer, but when you dispatch/publish/release a document and don't know how others on their (unknown) printers will print your carefully crafted document.
PDF is a format of document. So it may not be "intelligent". The PDF standard can not include two different versions of the document (one for color printing and one for printing in black and white).

pdftops eps font issue

I'm creating a pdf with Apache FOP in Linux
then I need to convert the pdf it into an eps.
I'm trying lot of ways, the only one that seems works is the pdftops.
But,
when I convert it into Linux in command line
pdftops file.pdf -eps file.eps
This command creates me the eps
but when I try to open it in Adobe Illustrator in Windows XP
It returns me the error
EAAFD+HelveticaNeueLTStd-MdCnO_99-Identify-H;
Font not found on the system; missing font has been substituted.
But
1: the fonts han not been substituted
2: the eps do not show words inside it is all blank instead of the images
I'm sure that in Windows XP I have all the fonts
becouse if I convert the pdf to an eps inside the Adobe Illustrator
all works fine and Adobe Illustrator do not show me the fonts issue.
Can you help me?
What I'm doing wrong?
If something is not working as intended, then that's a bug clear and simple: it needs to be debugged and fixed. Please could you file a bug-report at:
launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/poppler/+filebug
along with a copy of the PDF file that is being generated, and the exact command that is being used for the conversion (particularly whether it is pdf2ps (part of GhostScript), or pdfteps (part of Poppler/Xpdf and found in the poppler-utils package).
(Note that this question has been asked in three other places, but not yet reported in the bug-tracker where it can be explored, pointed to the right people and hopefully fixed).
Without knowing much about your setup, it looks like you're asking FOP to draw your text using the Helvetica Neue font, which is not part of the standard set of PDF fonts (note that Helvetica is, but not Helvetica Neue).
It would seem to me that your two options are to either force FOP to use Helvetica instead of Helvetica Neue, or force it to embed Helvetica Neue into the PDF (pdf2ps should automatically embed it into the result EPS file). In the first instance, you shouldn't need embedding at all, while in the second case the file should be embedded.
More info on how FOP handles fonts is also available from the package's documentation—as you can see, Helvetica Neue is not listed here.

font embed restriction in PDF

I'm stuck in a problem, the font I want to use can't save in pdf, STHeiti and STXihei they are both the default Chinese fonts in Mac os.
illustrator give me this error, I don't know how to change the font to make this work,
I know a software in windows named Font Creator that looks promising, But I don't know exactly how to use it
This is a licensing restriction imposed by the distributor of this font, there is no way to legally embed it in a PDF.

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