[Macworld]

Post your comments for Preview's hidden powers here

[Nyhthawk]

One issue with annotations: How do you delete them? There's nothing about removing annotations in the help materials.

[cweber]

Nyhthawk said:

One issue with annotations: How do you delete them? There's nothing about removing annotations in the help materials.

Select the annotation and choose Delete from the Edit menu (or hit the delete key). ;)

[EricS]

In Tiger (OS X 10.4), when I wanted to crop an image in Preview, I would make a rectangular selection by clicking and dragging. If I held down the Option key while doing so, a little window would appear next to my cursor that displayed the pixel dimensions of the selected area. This allowed me to adjust the selection to precisely the size I wanted, which was very useful. However, in Leopard (OS X 10.5), this feature seems to have disappeared. I hold down the Option key but that little selection dimension display doesn't show. Did Preview lose a feature in the Leopard upgrade, or am I doing something wrong?

[adrianpeluffo]

I was trying to merge two PDF files but I cant drag and drop from the slidebar, this is related with the permission options on the files I am trying to merge?

[Schneb]

This was a good list of features, thanks!

[slarsson]

if i'd only seen this yesterday - i had a pdf file with comments that i couldn't edit in adobe (no permission from end client) and had to send a separate list of replies. thanks, kirk!
s (new mac user)

[mothlight]

What about bookmarks? I diligently bookmarked a large .pdf file and then saved it. Opened it up on a different Mac and poof! No bookmarks. Can anyone explain what happened? They reappear when I open the document on the original computer. Is there a way to retain these bookmarks when saving a file?

[Luis_Alejandro]

You save my day, thanks!
I do read a lot of .pdf for work and instruction. Notes and annotations are a blessing that I knew.
But several times, I bounced against a document that is encrypted and I could "not save notes" (the doc allow copying).
I read your parragraph... but no clue. Until I got to "merge docs": I open a blank page doc and "merge with my [copy allowed] doc"... And now I can save notes!!
(I do not know if it works with non-copy encrypted docs.)
Thanks a lot!

[kirkmc]

Bookmarks are, alas, stored locally, in a com.apple.Preview.bookmarks.plist file. So you can't transfer them to other machines.

Kirk

[Luis_Alejandro]

{quote}
Nyhthawk wrote:One issue with annotations: How do you delete them? There's nothing about removing annotations in the help materials.
Select the annotation and choose Delete from the Edit menu (or hit the delete key). ;){quote}
That do not work with highligting.
Do somebody knows how to do it?

(I "change the color" but it is not "a solution")

[kirkmc]

Read the article:
If you need to edit your annotations later, open the document again, choose View: Sidebar, and then, from the pop-up menu at the bottom of the sidebar, choose Annotations. Click on one of your annotations in the sidebar to make it active; you can now edit, move, or delete it. To edit links, select the Include Links option at the top of the sidebar, and click on a link to edit it in the Inspector.
Kirk

[Biallystock]

Don't forget that Preview makes the tightest, most efficient pdfs from eps files.
Take an eps file that is created in any of Adobe's bloatware, open and resave it as a pdf from Preview and it can be as much 1/1000th of the original size!
To top it all it is nicely cropped to the eps's bounding box without any of that loose white space around it. You now have a file that is instantly previewable in Finder, Cover Flow or in your Open/Place dialog.
It also drag'n'drops into any Cocoa application and ironically opens much faster and cleaner into any Adobe application because it is taking less baggage with it.

[Biallystock]

Oh, and did I mention that it is FAST unlike a certain Adobe application!