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Preview in OS X 10.8 (rMBP) is very slow if many lines are embedded in the PDF
I do not have a comparison between the OS X versions but after I switched to a 15" retina MBP and simultaneously to OS X 10.8 the Preview app takes a long time to open pdfs with lots of vectors ...
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Where is move tool in Preview Version 6.0.1? [duplicate]
With Preview.app Version 6.0.1 the toolbar was changed quite drastically.
It misses the Hand tool that one can use to move enlarged documents around with the mouse.
How to get it back?
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How can I remove a signature once it's saved in Preview.app?
How can I delete a signature that I inserted using Preview.app?
I can edit or delete all the text fields but the signature seems locked somehow.
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Change Preview's default “Move to…” directory
Is there a way to set the default Move to... directory in Preview?
When a file is opened in Preview and Move to... is selected, the default directory is the directory that the file currently resides ...
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Set preview.app to default to “content only” view
Is there any way to make (Mountain Lion) Preview's default view 'content only'?
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Preview.app slow when showing selection box
When opening a rather large drawing/blueprint in Preview it works fine. (not superfast, but works)
But as soon as I select a region to crop CPU usage goes up to 100%. I think it's because the ...
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How to set two-sided printing as default in Mountain Lion Preview?
Every time I print from Preview app I need to manually click on "Two-sided" checkbox. This is annoying when I have a bunch of documents to print. Is there any way to set "two-sided" as default?
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Installing old version of preview
I recently upgraded to Mac OSX Mountain Lion and everything is running great. However, I liked the outlay of notes in PDF much better in the old Preview (Preview 5.0.3). I was wondering if there was ...
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Non-smooth scrolling pdf with trackpad in Preview with 10.8
Finally upgraded to Mountain Lion and I am noticing an annoying behavior in Preview. When I two-finger scroll too quickly with my 2009 MBP trackpad, the scrolling is jerky and can skip many pages in a ...
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How can I rotate my signature in Preview?
I have scanned my signature and can insert it just fine, but at the wrong angle!
How can I rotate it (90 deg)?
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Enable “Page Slide” in Preview.app
It looks like, in Mountain Lion, Apple got rid of the "page slide" effect when flipping through pages of a PDF in Preview.app. Is there a way to re-enable it?
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Files not opening in their own window in Preview.app (Mountain Lion) if several files are open simultaneusly
I use the Preview.app to review and compare jpg files, and it's not unusual for me to have in excess of 100 open at a time. After I upgraded to Mountain Lion, I noticed that Preview.app will open ...
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Open two views of the same PDF
Is there a way to open two views of the same PDF in Preview (without creating two copies of the file), or perhaps split the window and show two different pages at the same time?
This is very useful ...
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Unresponsive save dialogs in Preview
With the introduction of Mountain Lion, Preview acts up whenever I need to save a file. It does this regardless of whether I use File > Save or Command+S. The logs tell the same story:
10/20/12 ...
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Is it normal Mountain Lion behaviour to save changes in Preview without asking?
I just opened an image in Preview, selected a rectangle, hit delete and then quit Preview. Now I have a grey rectangle missing from the middle of my image but at no point did I get a chance to say ...
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Can Preview on Mountain Lion make animated pictures from a sequence of PNG?
I seem to recall making animated GIF from Preview.app on earlier OS, but can't find the options to make a GIF on the latest version of the app.
Can I use 10.8 Preview to make animated PNG or GIF?
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Why can't I press “return” to see all pages in Preview on Mountain Lion?
On OS X 10.7, I could press the Return key while in preview to see hundreds of little thumbnails of the pages in a pdf document. I can't show you a screenshot now, since I'm not running Lion, because ...
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Is there a way to customize highlight colors in Preview (Mountain Lion)?
The highlight tool in Mountain Lion's Preview allows one to select among a small number of colors. Is there a way to customize the colors (add to or change)?
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How to fix HP Officejet 7210 scanning in Mountain Lion?
I have a HP Officejet 7210 printer/scanner. I used to use Preview to scan, using File/Import from scanner. However, since upgrading to Mountain Lion, the option is greyed out.
Previously, the option ...
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Can Mountain Lion's Preview.app be configured to use Lion's highlighting colours?
The highlight function in the Mountain Lion version of Preview.app is now directly accessible from the toolbar, while the other annotation functions keep their usual location. The problem is that ...
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Where is the file size for “least” & “best” quality displayed when saving JPEG pictures in Preview?
In the older versions, when I saved a picture with preview, the slider button for "Quality" not only had "Least" & "Best" but it also told the "size" of the file. Mountain Lion does not tell me ...
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Keyboard shortcut for switching to an open full-screen preview window
If I have a document open in full-screen mode in Preview, and other documents open in windowed mode, I can switch FROM the full-screen window to other applications with CMD+TAB, and I can cycle the ...
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Is a person fully able to make use of iCloud's ability to store and sync documents in the cloud if a person is not a die-hard iWork user?
I see that if I use Preview.app its new method to move files to the cloud, I am not able to access it on my iPad or iPod.
I have only one Mac, and an iPad and iPod touch. I use MS Word, Excel, etc., ...
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How to get the hand tool back in Preview.app in 10.8?
In Mountain Lion's Preview.app the toolbar was changed quite drastically.
While I can see why they did it, I found that it misses the Hand tool that one can use to move enlarged documents around with ...
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Does Apple change OS X operating systems between the GM and the final release? [closed]
For instance, I've found quite a few bugs while working with the Mountain Lion Golden Master. Is there any chance Apple might fix these in the public release?
Thanks!
