If Preview is displaying some PDFs as black rectangles instead of pages, even though their thumbnails are correct, you can solve the problem in a non-obvious way: by recalibrating your display.

Fixing PDFs Whose Pages Render as Black Rectangles in Preview

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Fixing PDFs Whose Pages Render as Black Rectangles in Preview

Fixing PDFs Whose Pages Render as Black Rectangles in Preview