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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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This is a workaround, as I couldn't find a hotkey or menu option to do this. Still, clicking
View > Hide Notes
and then
View > Show Notes
Will show all anotations. I can now see all the annotations without manually clicking them. This worked on Preview 5.5.1.
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Here is how to use Safari to print an image to span multiple pages:
1) Open the image to be printed in Safari. If it is a local file, then choose File -> Open File.... Or if you already have the file open in Preview, you can drag the icon of the file from the title bar of the Preview window onto the Safari window or Safari icon in the dock. Otherwise, ...
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Sadly, it is not possible to change the font used by Preview for Notes - this is denoted by Apple an 'UnEditable'.
This thread on the Apple forums (which I can't take credit for) provides a couple of work arounds such as using Annotations instead of notes (as these are editable) or post-editing comments in Adobe Acrobat Reader XI, but not an actual solution ...
3
In his little-known novel, PDF Karenina, Leo Tolstoy wrote,
Optimally encoded PDF files are all alike; every sub-optimally encoded PDF file is sub-optimally encoded in its own way.
It's hard for anyone to answer why your PDF files are larger after Preview modifies them. A PDF file consists of many different kinds of data: images, content streams, ...
3
I've run into this with some forms, it's not always clear why (although in your case the DRM seems the likely culprit). The workaround for me has always been filling it out as normal, then using the print to PDF functionality (File → Print → PDF → Save as PDF). Certainly not the easiest, and it means you can't re-edit in some situations. But it's still ...
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It looks like all the previous answers to this question are completely uninformed. I suggest that you completely disregard all of them. It is unlikely, for instance, that telling the document creator that what they did was faulty will really get you anywhere.
First, it's likely that they did not embed fonts, yes, but there are many fonts that carry flags ...
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Well, OS X has built in font-rendering that Preview uses, which tends to look pretty great.
Adobe Acrobat must be using their own custom software to render fonts that isn't as good. Unfortunately, it is up to Adobe to fix their font rendering. You might want to look for an Acrobat setting that enables anti-aliasing which might help.
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Turns out, there's a Preview preference that controls what actual size actually means:
If you want points to correspond directly to physical pixels, choose the first option.
(Not sure how it affects Retina displays though!)
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One way is to use the old adage, leave it as you expect to find it!
If you have several windows open when you close it, then those windows will open next time. If you close the windows before you close the app, then next time you should have no windows.
So, if you are using Command ⌘ + Q to quit the app with open windows, try using Command ⌘ + W before ...
2
I know that there are a few ways to add support for various apps, but you might want to consider paying for Mira.
I've used it for a few 10.6 and 10.7 laptops and it works great.
There's also Remote Buddy, although I've not tried it personally.
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I found a workaround. Not convenient at all but it works.
It involves using Adobe Reader (AR) to edit the annotations made with Preview. With AR, you can export annotation data to a FDF textfile. You can then edit this file to get your annotations back to how they were in the older versions of Preview.app.
In ML's Preview, there are four colours that were ...
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I share your disappointment that the change to Preview.app has taken away the ability to select a highlight color from the color picker.
I have requested that Apple add it back at http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html.
For me, reinstalling the old Preview is the interim solution.
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My recommendation isn't a keyboard shortcut, but an easy way to send files between applications. Simply grab your file's icon at the title bar (proxy icon) and drop it on the app's dock icon (doesn't matter if the application is closed or open):
Subsequently your app will open (launch if the app is closed) and open the given image.
It works on all ...
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Found it!
In Preview,
open the Inspector (Command-I)
Select the Crop and Rotate tab, whose icon looks like a small ruler. Change the units as required
Now use the select area tool and the corresponding (printed) dimensions will be shown in the Inspector.
As an alternative, you can also download Free Ruler, which displays a nice ruler on screen, though ...
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Yeah, Preview has supported auto-save since 10.7.
The general preference pane has an option to ask to keep changes when closing documents. It can also be applied to individual applications:
defaults write com.apple.Preview NSCloseAlwaysConfirmsChanges -bool true
You can also disable auto-save and Versions completely:
defaults write com.apple.Preview ...
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I have never had problems with Skim not being able to keep up, but I use latex-makefile which generates temporary PDFs under other names until the very last pass. Perhaps you could try using that and see if it works, or adjusting your own Makefile similarly?
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You could use qlmanage instead.
/usr/bin/qlmanage -p file1.pdf file2.pdf file3.pdf
This will open the files in quicklook.
You can then use escape or the space bar which will close the quicklook previews and be back in terminal since it is the active app.
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To rotate the whole image:
Open the image file in Preview
Click "Tools" in the menubar
Click "Rotate Left" or "Rotate Right"
To rotate only part of the image
Open the image file in Preview
Select the signature part
Hit Command-x to cut or Command-c to copy
Hit Command-n to make a new file from the cut or copied part
Click "Tools" in the menubar
Click ...
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