Hi Charlie,
You can use the Command-D shortcut to create a bookmark to mark your
location in Preview. (Command-D is the same shortcut key combination
that's used to create bookmarks in Safari). You have the option to
assign a name to the bookmark -- otherwise the default will be the
name and page number of the document. What's particularly nice about
this feature is that when you navigate to the menu bar in Preview and
go to the Bookmarks menu (VO-M, then press "B" to navigate to
Bookmarks and arrow down), selecting the saved bookmark will both open
the document in Preview and put you at the bookmarked page; you don't
even have to know where the document is located or navigate to it. I
bookmark items that I want to re-read. For example, I have a bookmark
for the section describing NumPad Commander and assigning its
shortcuts in the VoiceOver Getting Started Guide for Leopard, since
I'm used to using Tiger, and don't often practice NumPad shortcuts
because I have one of the newer MacBook laptops that doesn't allow
enabling a number pad.
To read more about working with Preview, you can check Tim Kilburn's
VoiceOver pages. The page for Preview is:
http://homepage.mac.com/kilburns/voiceover/preview5.html
However, most of that information was based on the experience in
Tiger. The default behavior is supposed to remember your last read
page (if you interacted before you started reading), but this doesn't
seem to hold up in Leopard. Also, I've never tried to read password
protected files with Preview, so I don't know how that works. You
might need to use Adobe reader, which is a much less pleasant
experience.
One way around the problem of Preview not remembering your last read
location is to use Travis Siegel's Softcon PDF reader in place of
Preview. This is actually based on an early version of Preview that
was available when Tiger was first released, and is simply modified to
allow continuous reading without having to use Command-Right arrow at
the end of each page. You can find it at:
http://www.softcon.com/mac/
Just save this to your Applications folder and start it up in place of
Preview. Remember to interact before you start reading. Otherwise,
it's easy to read through a huge amount of text, then lose your place
because you forgot that first interaction. Softcon PDF reader does
not support bookmarking or some of the other new features of Preview.
Will wrote:
hi in a password protected PDF how do i mark where i am for when i
reopen it?
and Charlie added:
I'd love to know how to do that with unprotected PDF's even.
Hope this helps.
Cheers,
Esther
