diff --git a/.config/lf/preview/preview b/.config/lf/preview/preview
index d4ca484e..88f62c86 100755
--- a/.config/lf/preview/preview
+++ b/.config/lf/preview/preview
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ run() {
 mimetest() {
 	case "$1" in
 	*/pdf)
-		[ ! -f "${CACHE}.jpg" ] && run pdftoppm -jpeg -f 1 -singlefile "$f" "$CACHE"
+		[ ! -f "${CACHE}.jpg" ] && cat "$f" | run pdftoppm -jpeg -f 1 -singlefile - "$CACHE"
 		image "${CACHE}.jpg" "$w" "$h" "$x" "$y"
 		;;
 	*/x-bzip-compressed-tar | */x-compressed-tar | */x-xz-compressed-tar) run als -- "$f" ;;