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 rebind Go Back and Go Forward in Preview on Lion?
It seems that in Lion, standard shortcuts were added for the Go menu items Back and Forward. The shortcuts (⌘+[ and ⌘+]) are unusable on Finnish keyboard, and I'd like to rebind them. By unusable I ...
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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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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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Searching for punctuation in Preview
In Preview (v 5.3 on 10.6.8), if I search for a single letter such as k in a pdf, the program will find and highlight every instance of that letter in the pdf.
However, if I search for a punctuation ...
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Prevent iTunes from showing video preview frames
By default, iTunes video podcasts display their album art as preview frames, rather than the embedded album art that ships with the file. I have been manually replacing the image with each new ...
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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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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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Preview: File-Specific Bookmarks
Is there a feature in Preview that will let me maintain a collection of file-specific bookmarks? For example, I often place bookmarks at the beginning of various chapters in books. I might decide to ...
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Retina-ready slideshow
I'm looking for an easy way to view a simple slideshow of photos with 1x1 pixel ratio, with play/pause button. I want 1 image pixel to be equal to 1 retina screen pixel, as shown by default with ...
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Decreasing resolution of screenshots increases file size
I've noticed that on my rMBP, when I try to make a screenshot smaller using Preview.app version 6.0.1 (Tools -> Adjust Size).
When I'm trying to decrease the image size to upload it, the file size ...
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How to save or export a photo without the GPS data?
I have used Preview's export function to export a JPG file to PNG format, and GPS information is still embedded in the picture. Is there any tools in OSX that allows me to strip off the GPS data?
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Cut two pages by Preview at once
When scanning documents, many pages in a row have the same problem. An example where a lot of white empty space in the corner:
The application Preview allows selecting the area in a row along the ...
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Cannot export pdf highlights from Preview.app using skim in OSX10.8.3
When I 'convert to notes' in skim, only the page numbers of the highlighted text gets displayed. I can click on those page numbers and it will go to the highlighted part of the document but the actual ...
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I added notes to a PDF in preview, and all of a sudden when I open the PDF a couple of days later, all notes have been rotated?
The question title pretty much sums it up. My notes are extremely messy and not properly aligned. Is there some shortkey that I may have accidentally pressed?
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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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Preview chrashes on certain page of pgfplots manual
Howdy its quite known among TeXies that under MacOSX the pgfplots manual brings Preview down on certain pages (with a lot of 3D content). Heres the (significant part of ) the log.
My question is: ...
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Exporting PDF with table of contents hyperlinks in Microsoft Word 2011?
When I save a document in Word 2011 to PDF, the hyperlinks in the documents' table of contents and other cross-reference links aren't clickable. That is in the PDF document when I click on a table of ...
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Snow Leopard Preview Update
Snow Leopard Preview does not show some PDF (Version 1.7) although these can be viewed in Lion.
Is there an upgrade?
After all Version 1.7 is a 2006 ISO Standard
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Problem starting Preview from the command line
Some of the time, when I start Preview from the command line, it fails to start normally.
So for instance I will say "open myfile.jpg", and it appears to be trying to start Preview, but the icon for ...
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Preview often does not allow import from iPad?
I am finding that sometimes in Preview, under File there is an option for Import from iPad. But sometimes it is not there at all (as of late) and I can find no way to make it appear e.g. by quitting ...
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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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Remote Buddy & Preview - Change fade
I wrote a LaTeX presentation with beamer class that produces a nice PDF file as final output. I would like to switch between slides with my (old) Apple Remote, so I installed Remote Buddy (Remote ...
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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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OSX 10.7 - Does not remember 'Open With' preferences on restart
I have a Macbook running Lion, and when I try to set the default PDF viewer as 'Adobe Reader' - it works until the next time the computer is taken outside of its current network. The default for PDFs ...
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Vim/Emacs keybinding for `Preview.app`
Does anybody have ideas about using emacs/ vim key binding for Preview.app to browser pdf files and how?
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Color adjustment of multiple pages in Preview
I want to make a pdf with multiple pages made of separate scanned images.
I open all files simultaneously in Preview so that they become separate pages of the document. Now I want to apply one color ...
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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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Preview: reorder pages in pdf increased file size?
I have scanned 58 pages into a PDF. The file size of this orginal pdf was 8 MB. Unfortunately the page order was a little messed up when I scanned so I used Preview to reordered some of the pages by ...
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“Open in Finder” dock command opens Preview instead
When I use the "Open In Finder" command in any Dock Folder Preview opens and scans the entire folder opening any file it can recognise. The same thing happens when I select an item in from the search ...
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Automate highlight text and add note annotations in Preview
When annotating a PDF in Preview I regularly highlight text then add a note to that highlight. This is a frustrating process as I can do the first bit with a keyboard shortcut, but must then ...
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Preview zooms view when moving document from laptop screen to external monitor
In Preview, when I drag a PDF document from my laptop screen to an external monitor, Preview zooms in the view by a large amount--enough that I have to click the "minus" button a couple of times to ...
