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Preview, the Mac app people forget about

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Re: Preview, the Mac app people forget about

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Post by knolan »

junglistguy wrote: post #185
dev_tty01 wrote: post #50

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Sort Downloads by Kind. Select the group of photos. Double click. They will all be opened in one Preview window and you can scroll through all the photos. Or, select the first, touch the space bar and you will see the Quick Look preview. Use the arrow keys to move between the different files. Not really seeing the messssss, but to each their own I guess.

Not an option, i have list, and by date. Tons of files. No proper viewer

You can group files in Finder by kind, all image files will then appear together. In list or column view clicking on one will preview it directly in finder in a side panel. You make this preview panel bigger. Tapping Space will open a preview window and you can use the arrow keys to navigate the files behind in Finder. Or select them all and tap space and use the arrows to browse them.

Re: Preview, the Mac app people forget about

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hnlmorg wrote: post #223
jitl wrote: post #212

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- Cmd-Shift-G opens a fuzzy complete path input - “Show hidden files” is a preference you can change. Once you’re comfortable with the CLI and know the paths you care about for a task, in what cases do you prefer a GUI open dialog on other systems?

> Cmd-Shift-G opens a fuzzy complete path input The problem is that's not going to be an easy thing to remember. It's not an obvious hotkey and nor is it even memorable that the hotkey even exists. There's no UI hints that it does. And when you use hundreds of different pieces of software every day, from CLI tools to complicated desktop applications, there's no way anyone can remember every single hotkey and flag for…

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Re: Preview, the Mac app people forget about

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Post by astrange »

kergonath wrote: post #172
astrange wrote: post #157

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Well, you need specific support if you have custom views or views that draw bitmap images, otherwise it won't look great.

But then it won’t look good in print either, right? The pdf is just a file with what would have otherwise gone to the printer.

Sure, but I think "export to PDF" might actually be a more common feature than printing at this point.

Re: Preview, the Mac app people forget about

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Post by DanielleMolloy »

luhn wrote: post #252
wildrhythms wrote: post #241

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Ancient companies requiring I print out a form, sign it physically, scan it, send it back... I just open it in Preview, use the text annotation tool and some random cursive font, "sign it", re-export, done. I haven't owned a printer or scanner in 10 years.

It has a feature now where you can scan your signature and pop it into any document on demand. Super useful.

Not just that, you can sign directly on the trackpad. And store that signature for later use.

Re: Preview, the Mac app people forget about

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Post by dtgriscom »

luhn wrote: post #252
wildrhythms wrote: post #241

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Ancient companies requiring I print out a form, sign it physically, scan it, send it back... I just open it in Preview, use the text annotation tool and some random cursive font, "sign it", re-export, done. I haven't owned a printer or scanner in 10 years.

It has a feature now where you can scan your signature and pop it into any document on demand. Super useful.

And "scan" means "hold up to the webcam and take a picture." No scanner needed.

Re: Preview, the Mac app people forget about

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Post by Klonoar »

kergonath wrote: post #80
hnlmorg wrote: post #64

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> 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…

> 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 macOS (and easily the worst open and save dialogue across all of the popular desktop environments). The fact that it's "killer feature" is having to use another file navigator to find the target and then drag that fil…

Absolute hard second on this, it works well and doesn't need to be changed.

Re: Preview, the Mac app people forget about

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Post by armchairhacker »

ollien wrote: post #6
Tarragon wrote: post #5

It's mentioned heavily in the article but I want to emphasize... Preview is the easiest way to slice up and merge PDF files.

This feature is one of the few things I miss dearly since moving to Linux as my daily-driver OS. There are command-line tools but nothing compares to Preview from what I've found.

Okular is another great pdf viewer.

IMO it’s not as good as preview and idk if it supports annotations or does them as well. But it’s a great lightweight pdf and image viewer and “traditional” Desktop app.

Re: Preview, the Mac app people forget about

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Post by travelbyphone »

PrimeDirective wrote: post #68

All this, and yet you can't move forwards or backwards, when there are other files in the folder. I would be gladly wrong if someone could point out how to do this in Preview

To scan the files in your folder like that you can use quicklook. Just press space to open the first one and use the arrows to navigate. Another super power of macOS.

Re: Preview, the Mac app people forget about

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Post by brightball »

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…

Preview and OmniGraffle are the 2 apps that I really miss from OSX now that I’m on linux full time.

That’s about it though.

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