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Re: Preview, the Mac app people forget about

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Post by eadmund »

GraphenePants wrote: post #115
wlesieutre wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can't stand when I have to deal with a PDF on Windows on my office computer where I have the free copy of Acrobat. You can right click on a page and it's got "rotate" buttons up at the top. But when you click on one, it takes a second to think about it and then opens a popup to offer you a free 7-day trial of the Pro version. Rotating a page is too powerful a feature for Adobe to not try and sell it to you. https:/…

Correct, you get what you pay for. Acrobat Pro supports advanced rotations for only $14.99 per month. https://www.adobe.com/acrobat/pricing.html

> Acrobat Pro supports advanced rotations for only $14.99 per month.

That right there is a peak-2022 quote, alright!

Re: Preview, the Mac app people forget about

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Post by PascLeRasc »

t_mann wrote: post #45

Pretty crazy if you think about it. Windows users are relegated to third-party apps, and even they don't come close to that in functionality. Merging and rearranging is such a pain, I've even resorted to using web apps on questionable sites sometimes.

PDF splitting sites and DiffChecker.com are some of the best industrial espionage tools ever created.

Re: Preview, the Mac app people forget about

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Post by minimaxir »

josho wrote: post #93
minimaxir wrote: post #48

The best use of Preview/Markup is proper redaction of names for posting images to social media: 1. Set Shape Fill color 2. Set Shape Border color 3. Insert a Rectangle. The rectangle can then be moved/resized/copy/pasted to cover names precisely and won't inadvertently leak names like the spraypaint tool does.

Be careful with that workflow. If you ever share the modified PDF that rectangle likely hasn't redacted anything. On a digital PDF the underlying text is still accessible, and even if the PDF was a scan, the original image likely hasn't been modified, instead a new shape layer was added.

True; to clarify this is for images, not PDFs.

Re: Preview, the Mac app people forget about

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Post by howinteresting »

SamBam wrote: post #36

Signatures stamps are great, but the signature-creation method is absurd. Ok, there is something cryptographically special about a signature image, which means we can't just import a file, it has to be created while in the program, and it gets stored on the keychain. Fine. But then why not also give us the ability to add an arbitrary stamp from an image? Why have the only method for adding a stamp to a PDF be through…

Because fundamentally Apple computers do not put you at the center of your computer, they put Apple there.

For example, on the new M1 computers, iOS apps stop functioning if SIP is disabled. Why? This is entirely artificial, because the iOS app model depends on you not being able to do whatever you want with the device you own. Contrast this with open source where this sort of restriction would just be patched away.

Re: Preview, the Mac app people forget about

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Post by Tagbert »

t_mann wrote: post #45

Pretty crazy if you think about it. Windows users are relegated to third-party apps, and even they don't come close to that in functionality. Merging and rearranging is such a pain, I've even resorted to using web apps on questionable sites sometimes.

Maybe that balances out against the fact that Mac OS has rudimentary window management and users need third party apps to fill that gap while Windows has decent window management built in. :-)

Re: Preview, the Mac app people forget about

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Post by mLuby »

Preview can photoshop images too, with a bit of effort. Wish it had a smudge/blur tool though.

• https://imgur.com/D1G9h63 Removed people on either side of the arch.

• https://imgur.com/iZazOgA Removed people above the person's head.

• https://imgur.com/taMCXpC Removed graffiti from below the carving's hand.

P.S. Get with the times HN; even Google Docs supports Markdown now.

Re: Preview, the Mac app people forget about

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Post by solarkraft »

jitl wrote: post #7

Preview is one of those essential things that sets macOS apart from the other operating systems, and contributes to that “Mac has good UX” vibe. Last time I opened the Windows equivalent, it tried to sell me on Microsoft’s PDF-alike format… and asked me to connect Office365. Another tiny macOS feature I love is that you can drop a file icon on any Open or Save dialog to select the file in the dialog. On other OSs, th…

> On other OSs, this moves the file to the directory shown in the dialog, or does nothing

Apps on Linux (Gnome?) do it too.

Re: Preview, the Mac app people forget about

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Post by realstacktrace »

mLuby wrote: post #127

Preview can photoshop images too, with a bit of effort. Wish it had a smudge/blur tool though. • https://imgur.com/D1G9h63 Removed people on either side of the arch. • https://imgur.com/iZazOgA Removed people above the person's head. • https://imgur.com/taMCXpC Removed graffiti from below the carving's hand. P.S. Get with the times HN; even Google Docs supports Markdown now.

Blur would be a killer feature in Preview!

Re: Preview, the Mac app people forget about

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Post by kitsunesoba »

hedgehog wrote: post #76
hnlmorg wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Another tiny macOS feature I love is that you can drop a file icon on any Open or Save dialog to select the file in the dialog. On other OSs, this moves the file to the directory shown in the dialog, or does nothing. The reason other OS's don't support that macOS feature is because their open and save dialogue is usable on its own. In my opinion the open and save dialogue is one of the worst designed interfaces on…

I gotta say, for all of my (many, many) criticisms of macOS the save dialog seems fine to me. I almost always have the destination folder already open in Finder, if anything the improvement would be to put a list of Finder's open folders into the save dialog. Dragging it over works ok though.

A list of open Finder windows in the sidebar would indeed be lovely.
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