Hi Chuck,
Of course you can set up multiple bookmarks for each document. What I
would do is assign a label with an initial code that tags the manual
-- for example, "Roland" as a prefix. Then I would use the "Edit
Bookmarks" option in the Bookmarks menu. That will give you a table of
bookmarks in the order that you assigned them. The table entries are
"Label", "File", and "Page". Interact with the table and navigate to
the "Label" column. Then do a sort with VO-Shift-backslash (actually,
VO-vertical line, but VO-shift-backslash on the U.S. keyboard). That
will sort your bookmarks alphabetically by label. Press the first few
letters of the your assigned label when you're in the Bookmarks menu
and you'll be positioned on the group of bookmarks for "Roland" or
other book. Probably easiest to use a shortcut set of initials. If
you want to rename a bookmark, when you're in the table at the
selected label, do a double-click with VO-Shift-space (hold down
Control, Option, and Shift keys and tap spacebar twice). Then enter
the new name for your bookmark.
HTH.
Cheers,
Esther
On Dec 8, 2008, at 11:48 AM, Chuck Reichel wrote:
Hi Esther,Do you know how to make separate book mark files for
different PDFS?
The reason I ask is that in my Logic pro manual I have several dozen
book marks but when i am reading say my roland X6 manual I have to
sort through all the logic book marks. I have been thinking about a
work around for this but no ideas yet!
Talk soon
Chuck Reichel
954-742-0019
www.SoundPictureRecording.com
On Dec 8, 2008, at 1:58 PM, Esther wrote:
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
Chuck Reichel
954-742-0019
www.SoundPictureRecording.com
