Neil, Preview under Lion has added a number of cool features.
One of them is that adding text is now left aligned. I cannot find a way to centre or right align it. Left align is fine with me. It also adds the very nice features of a Speech Bubble and a Thought Bubble. Speech bubble creates a circle with an arrow towards the place on the PDF you want to mark. Bit like a paper cartoon. Thought bubble does the same but without the arrow. Instead it has little bubbles going to the place you are marking. The add Note feature is there too, for a more formal way of marking up notes. These, plus features of adding links, underlines, strike throughs, adding signatures, Preview continues to be a powerful free PDF tool. Tim On 21/08/2011, at 3:28 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: > Hi Neil, > > Sounds like you're using the Tools > Annotate > Add Text command. > If you instead use the Add Note command the text will be left-aligned. > > Using the "Add Note", places the notes off the document onto the side. > If you really need the text placed directly on the document, there is no way > to change the centre-aligned text. > > This had been an issue with Preview for years and ‘apparently’ (as I haven’t > tried it yet, I will and report back), > They fixed it in Lion!!!!!! > > > Cheers, > Ronni > > 17" MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt" > 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD > > OS X 10.6.8 Snow Leopard > OS X 10.7 Lion > Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) > > > > On 21/08/2011, at 2:24 PM, Neil Houghton wrote: > > >> >> Hi all, >> >> I'm probably missing something obvious here but... >> >> I've been finding the annotations feature of Preview very useful with my >> genealogy research when I print out a webpage as pdf (say a census search or >> free BMD search) and then add some notes of my own - say to put a person in >> context to other research. >> >> Now I can see how to do most of the formatting for these notes - eg change >> font, change font colour, change font size. However the text always comes >> out as centre aligned - which is a pain if I'm writing a few lines, I'd much >> rather just format as left aligned to the text box. >> >> However, after checking (I think) every menu I still cannot see how to do >> this!! >> >> It seems unlikely that Apple would build all this functionality into preview >> and then limit you to centre aligned text... >> >> Any ideas? >> >> >> Cheers >> >> >> Neil >> -- >> Neil R. Houghton >> Albany, Western Australia >> Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 >> Email: n...@possumology.com > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au>
