[wetbaloney]

Here is a Lion improvement we did not need:

Unless you specifically close your document before you close Preview, it will open when you open Preview again to view another document. This is supposed to be helpful for what and to whom?

At the very least we should have an option in the Preview Preferences to revert back to the way this worked in Snow Leopard.

Who thinks up this stuff?

[bastion]

wetbaloney, on 09 June 2012 - 12:42 PM, said:

Here is a Lion improvement we did not need:

Unless you specifically close your document before you close Preview, it will open when you open Preview again to view another document. This is supposed to be helpful for what and to whom?

At the very least we should have an option in the Preview Preferences to revert back to the way this worked in Snow Leopard.

Who thinks up this stuff?

For what it's worth, some people do value this, so saying "we" don't need it is a bit presumptuous.

This is, in fact, one of the most configurable features Apple has introduced in the history of the Mac. You can suppress the re-opening behavior across all apps system-wide with a setting in System Preferences. You can suppress it for a single app with a simple command line (granted this is not optimal, it works fine). Whether you've got it suppressed or not you can switch the state of it one time by holding down option while quitting. And if you hold down shift while launching any saved state will be ignored.

Here's how to disable it for Preview if you still want other apps to exhibit the resume behavior. Open a terminal window and copy/paste the following.

defaults write com.apple.Preview NSQuitAlwaysKeepsWindows -bool false