I just got an heavily commented pdf, when I open it in Preview, all annotations (highlights, notes) are "hidden", i.e. do not show up in the left margin. I can display them by clicking on them but I would like to see them all at once without having to click on each of them individually. I couldn't find a menu item but maybe I missed it? Or is there a keyboard shortcut?
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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.
For Preview 8.1, I was also concerned that all my Notes were minimized (their term, not "hidden"). Solution is to change the default (new since 10.7 I think):
View > Highlights and Notes
Once this is toggled, the Notes again show in margins.
There is a direct shortcut for it now. Cmd + alt + 4
Other shortcuts:
- See table of contents: Cmd + alt + 3
- See thumbnails: Cmd + alt + 2
cmd-I
) and selecting the annotations tab.