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First, you can only merge pdf if they are not protected, if this is the okay :
Open both pdf
Enable the sidebar in each windows of Preview, then select "Thumbnails" view
Drag & drop the cover (inside the sidebar) of one pdf into the sidebar of the other pdf.
With this method, you can completely merge two pdf or selectively drag & drop the pages ...
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This is part of resume. A feature introduced with Lion.
Per default, windows are restored the next time you open the application. If you want to completly close all windows just one time, you can quit an application using ⌘+⌥+Q instead of the standard ⌘+Q to quit an application.
Undo resume for a specific application
Type the ...
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Go to the "Help" menu in Safari and select "Installed Plug-ins". This will open a new tab displaying information about all of the currently installed plug-ins. Find the entry for Adobe Acrobat. Below it will be a line that reads something like:
Adobe® Acrobat® Plug-in for Web Browsers — from file “AdobePDFViewer.plugin”.
Note the name of the file from ...
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This is one of those things that really makes me wonder "If it's not broken why fix it?".
Other than switching to another application that might give you back the lost functionality, I only have one suggestion at the moment. This is how I've been able to use Preview (5.5) and still get two page (side by side) continuous scrolling:
Open up your pdf, ...
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To stop only Preview from doing this open up Terminal.app and enter:
defaults write com.apple.Preview NSQuitAlwaysKeepsWindows -bool false
To re-enable this at any time enter:
defaults write com.apple.Preview NSQuitAlwaysKeepsWindows -bool true
If you want to turn off the resume-on-load feature for all applications you can go to System Preferences -> ...
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Skim is a pdf reader specialy designed to annotate pdf.
Skim is a PDF reader and note-taker for OS X. It is designed to help you read and annotate scientific papers in PDF, but is also great for viewing any PDF file.
Stop printing and start skimming.
Explore the links to the left to investigate Skim and consider helping out with the project.
Features:
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System Preferences > General
Uncheck the Restore windows when quitting and re-opening apps.
You can also toggle this behavior by holding the option key when quitting an application.
Added - October 19, 2012
In Mountain Lion, this option has been changed to read, "Close windows when quitting an application" with fine print to explain that open documents ...
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Workaround
Probably the simplest / safest option is to 'flatten' the PDF before sending it, by printing it to a new PDF.
After completing your form in Preview, go to the Print menu (cmd+P) and use the PDF drop-down in the bottom-left, selecting to Save as PDF... to generate a new, 'flattened' PDF.
Flattened simply means that all annotations (including ...
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This was covered by Aussie Bloke's blog when Lion arrived. Here are the steps to get both the file where the signature is stored as well as the associated keychain entry to a second Mac.
On the source Mac:
Open the ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.Preview/Data/Library/PreferencesFolder
In Finder, click the Go menu and hold option to show the Library folder
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If you in Preview select the half of the A3 (e.g. use the Inspector ⌘+I so you get the exact size) - then choose Crop ⌘+K, and print this "new" page e.g. as a PDF - after that you Undo the Crop with ⌘+Z, and do the same with the other half of the A3.
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You can alternatively try to insert your signature in a blank pdf document, crop to take only your signature and then save the document as a PNG file.
FYI, it's seems that the signature is stored in a .plist file.
The file name is "com.apple.Preview.signatures.plist" and it's in folder : ...
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There's a first time for everything but, but basically: no.
Unless you have found the mother of all security bugs, so humiliating that it would overshadow Apple's entire Mountain Lion release, the bug to end all bugs and live on in infamy, it just is not going to happen.
Not to mention, fixing and testing bugs generally takes time. The fastest Apple bug ...
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Opening the first one regularly and then using the open command, with the -n option, should do the trick.
To do so just:
Open the Terminal.app
type open -n and drap the file to the Terminal window. The full path of the file will appear after what you've typed.
Hit enter.
The -noption opens a new instance of the application (in this case the default ...
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I know you asked for 'Preview' solutions, but in case you're interested in a command-line tool:
alias pdfjoin='/System/Library/Automator/Combine\ PDF\ Pages.action/Contents/Resources/join.py'
Then you can do things like
pdfjoin -o out.pdf file1.pdf file2.pdf ...
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It appears that at present, that isn't an option. When I created a signature file using the FaceTime camera, I see that first of all, there is no unencrypted graphic file created by Preview. Preview did a new key in Keychain titled "Preview signature privacy", suggesting that the signature files go directly from Preview's camera interface to an encrypted ...
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Yes to all your questions. OS X’ Quartz PDFContext generator embeds fonts (unless the font forbids it, it seems). I couldn’t find any document that expressly states this (it’s implied in this bit of Pages help, for instance) but I have been sending out PDF proofs with fonts not installed on the recipient’s computer long enough to know it does.
As long as ...
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If you are just skimming the pictures do this:
Instead of opening a picture in Preview.app by double-clicking it, just press space to preview the picture when selected in Finder.
This way you can still use the arrow keys to navigate between the pictures.
↑ and ↓ in list view
↑,↓,← and → in icon view
You can ...
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1st thing to try
Open Firefox
Open Preferences (Firefox > Preferences, or Command + ,)
Select the Applications tab
Search for "pdf"
Change action to something else, then change it back to "Always Ask"
Verify this is set correctly
Open Finder
Search for .pdf
Right (Option) Click the first PDF that appears.
Click Get Info
Expand Open With (if it isn't ...
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quit the Preview App, enter the following into your Terminal application and then start Preview again. Problem solved!
defaults write com.apple.Preview PVImagePrintingScaleMode 0
to revert this setting, you can use the following command:
defaults delete com.apple.Preview PVImagePrintingScaleMode
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No simple solution that I can think of.
You can switch to using Skim, or another PDF previewer that supports the behavior you seek.
You can "open file.pdf" to refresh and bring Preview to the foreground, and then another command to bring your editor or terminal in front of it (open file.pdf; open -a Terminal.app).
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I can't really answer as to why it's so inefficient, but i've had the same problem, and i got around it by using free Quartz filters from Jerome Colas.
This post on the Apple discussion boards has the details, but the link is broken, an extra * on the end breaks it, it should be https://public.me.com/jcolas.
Download, unzip, and add the "Filters" folder to ...
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In the version of Preview included in Lion, this is easy. Go to File-> Print...
Click the Show Details button to reveal extra options.
Under Pages, choose Selected Page in Sidebar.
That will print only the current page (and the live print preview will update to show you).
Note that the side bar does not have to be visible for this to work.
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How is the PDF compressed? If it is black and white only, it may be using a compression method that leads to choppy behaviour.
I was recently dealing with a product manual that was a black and white only scan. It was compressed using JBIG2, and it stuttered enormously when scrolling, even on a top-of-the-line MacBook.
I opened the document in Adobe ...
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You can reinstall and use the version of Preview.app from Lion.
Instructions are here (start with post #8 and move forward from there)
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1412516
Here are some of the salient parts, in case the link breaks. I'm just quoting text from the poster on the linked thread:
The Lion Preview.app seems to be blacklisted ...
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https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4145911?start=0&tstart=0
Most suitable answer seems to be in the above link. Select the underline tool. Hit Cmd + T, which will bring up the font box. Select the Font Colour button, select the colour you want and you're done - it should now underline in that colour
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The PDF file has been protected. You can’t copy-paste text from it. Plane 16 is displayed when a character is in the “private” area of the Unicode specification. This has been deliberately done to prevent you from copy-pasting.
Also, this is not OS X’s error character. It just appears when it encounters something in the private area of the Unicode spec.
A ...
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If you hold down alt/option when you click the format dropdown in the export menu, you can still select GIF in Mountain Lion. Once you have done this, you can continue with the normal animated gif creation process:
Save your image as a GIF
Show the sidebar
Drag additional frames on top of the thumbnail
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This thread addresses the problem best:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/16821750#16821750
Basically the issue is with Acrobat formatting scanned PDFs in a way that makes Preview think it is rotated.
The answer above about exporting to a new PDF and then trying to insert a scanned signature in the new PDF via Preview's annotation tools works to ...
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A thread on macworld covers this. Should work by either by removing the plugin from the internet plugins folder or by changing the settings in the Adobe Reader preferences. The plugin is pretty annoying, I never installed the Adobe Reader again.
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