I suspect Will's strictures regarding preview are to do with having to
switch over to a dictionary while reading ortranslating text that's
open in Preview. That was my issue and that is why I tend to copy and
paste the text from Preview into Textedit. The ability to set
bookmarks is very interesting, and thank you for posting it: I shall
certainly use it. Butwhen I have to switch to another application
every so very foten, it is less useful. Unless I'm totally
misunderstanding Will's needs, this is what he would have found so
irritating.
With best wishes
Simon
On 8 Dec 2008, at 18:58, 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
