Apple Preview is a program included with Mac OS X that permits displaying Adobe PDF (Portable Document Format) files without needing Adobe Reader. Apple Preview also displays many other kinds of documents and graphics files, and permits limited editing and manipulation of them.
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How to disable Acrobat Reader in Safari?
In Safari, the default PDF-Viewer in Safari is "Preview".
Unfortunately, since I installed the Acrobat Reader, this default changed to the Acrobat Reader, which is extremely annoying.
How can I ...
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Changing Preview.app's default View state in Lion
One thing I dislike about Preview.app in Lion is its defaulting to Continuous Scroll as the view option when a new PDF document opens. My recollection is that previous behaviour was for the last-used ...
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Lion's Preview regularly hangs when unhiding with open documents
In Lion, I've had an incredible amount of difficult with Preview hanging indefinitely when restoring open documents after being hidden for any extended period of time.
There is no immediate solution ...
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What readers annotate PDFs better than the Preview app?
I usually spend around 3 or 4 hours a day working with and annotating PDFs. I've always used Preview, but there's a few things that bother me about it. Mainly the large icons used when you place ...
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Can I customize the icon Finder uses for PDF/Preview files?
How can I disable the "dog ears" my PDF previews have in Finder?
This is most easily seen in windows with icon view. (Command ⌘-1 is the shortcut). Is it possible to customize this icon so it is ...
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Is there a way to make Preview not open all previously opened files?
Usually when I use Preview, it is when I see a .jpg or .png and I double click on the file to take a look at the file, but sometimes Preview will open up all the .pdf and .png I opened previously, ...
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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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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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How to disable Preview from opening up the last couple items viewed? osx lion
When I download a PDF and open it in Preview on OS X Lion, Preview opens the last couple documents that I viewed. It seems to arbitrarily open anywhere from the last document to the last x documents. ...
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Search for a string in Preview
I use Preview's Command-F (find) to search for C# in the pdf document. However, the result is not for 'C#', but just 'C': I get hundreds of meaningless search results.
How can I get the search result ...
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How to start a slideshow on the Mac super quick and easy?
This is one thing I don't quite get it for the Mac: why is it so hard to start a slideshow?
The most often way is, I have several photos on the Desktop or in Downloads, and I double click to see the ...
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Why is Preview excessively slow after upgrading to Lion?
After upgrading to OS X Lion, I noticed that my preview app is now excessively slow, taking minutes to open a file instead of seconds, even when opening a local file. In addition, it is often ...
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How can I add signatures to Preview.app in Lion without using the web cam?
Is it possible to add a signature e.g. from PDF files or from JPEG images instead of using a web cam? The problem is that I don't have a web cam and I would like to use this feature in spite of that.
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Extract an image file of my signature from Preview?
The Preview application in OS X Lion includes the ability to take a screen capture of your written signature and save it for later application in to any PDF file.
Where does Preview store the image ...
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refresh Preview from command line
I have a workflow (LaTeX editing in Emacs) which produces PDFs that I then examine in Preview. Preview is smart enough to re-load the PDF when it changes, but it only does so when I click on the ...
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Crop multiple pages in a pdf file
I can use Preview app to select a region and crop a page. Can I do the same cropping for a whole pages in pdf? Are there tools (commercial or free) available for it?
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Some PDFs created by MS Word 2007's Save-as-PDF feature (on Windows) don't display correctly on Mac OS / iOS
Some PDFs created by MS Word 2007's Save as PDF feature (on Windows) don't display correctly on Mac OS using the built-in PDF handling. They display correctly using Acrobat, Photoshop, Inkscape, or ...
