This one is for the Mac users out there. Anyone who has used Mac OSX, whether they know it or not, has probably used Preview (or as Mac-heads call it, Preview.app) at some point. Any time you double click on an image or PDF, it is probably Preview that is starting up to view it.
What a lot of people don’t know is that Preview has some basic document editing capabilities. I made this quick video to run through them:
One thing I forgot to mention when creating the video is that you can use Preview to annotate documents as well. To do this:
- Go to Tools -> Annotate -> Add Note
- Place the annotation where you want it to go
- In the box, type your message
To summarize, Preview.app can:
- Re-order pages
- Delete pages
- Insert pages
- View one or two pages at a time, alone or continuously
- Go to full-screen mode
- View an index sheet of all pages
- Add notes to annotate a document
Do you have any more document management tips for Preview.app? Leave them in the comments.
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Preview in 10.5.7 has a major, nasty bug where the wrong pages get selected, if you select multiple non-adjecent pages. (For example, select pages 2, 4, and 6 by command-clicking; delete them with command-delete. 2, 3 and 4 get deleted instead.
I hear via an unconfirmed source that this bug is fixed in Snow Leopard. I haven't yet installed 10.5.8 to see if it's fixed there, as well, but I don't see it in the list of changes for this patch.
Yikes that is a nasty bug! Thanks for the heads up Michael. I haven't installed 10.5.8 yet either but once I do, I'll try it out. Thanks again.
Nope, not fixed in 10.5.8. Sigh.
Drat. Oh well, hopefully Snow Leopard? Any extra-early adopters able to check it out for us?
Seems to be fixed in Snow Leo. At least on my installation the bug with the pages in not there. But Im seeing a very strange behavior when I try to combine several PDF pages into a new document. On leopard I did this by selecting the first page, then cmd-c, cmd-n and then just drag all additional pages into the new document (from other PDFs). But Snow Leo does not combine the pages which is very annoying for me! Guess preview still needs some bugfixes.
Thank you, so much for this post. So easy to do once you know you it exists. I didn't know the command-delete after command-click either, but I'll not use it until the bugs fixed. Thanks to Michael F for mentioning that command and the bug.
Glad to hear. It helped! I didn't know the functionalityexisted until I stumbled across it. Once I did, it made life a lot easier if I just wanted to do quick page manipulation. Thanks for reading/commenting!
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Is there a way to take apart a pdf? Let's say I scan 10 pages and I need two or three of them alone. How do I do that?
There are a bunch of different ways I am sure, but what you could do is, in the right hand sidebar, highlight the pages that you want to extract. Then go Edit > Copy, and then go File > New From Clipboard. That should do the trick I would think.
I bought the s1500m for Mac, but it seems like 1500 for pc has better software, the organizer. What do you think?
I usually recommend getting the scanner for whatever platform you will be scanning on most, but you're right.
The Windows version comes with "better" software in that it comes with a document organization program (ScanSnap Organizer) whereas the Mac doesn't, and it comes with Acrobat 9 whereas the Mac version still only comes with Acrobat 8.
Ever have any luck with the 4.013 version of CardIris for Scansnap on a 1500M Mac OSX 10.7.1?
I scan business cards and cannot save them in CardIris for Scansnap. When exit cards not saved?