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- lnfiniteLoop, on 10/13/2007, -3/+98The title I submitted is incorrect. This is actually a preview of Preview 4.0, not 3.0. If digg offered a way to update the title, I would. But I can't. Sorry.
- adamriggins, on 10/10/2007, -2/+90a preview of Preview. My head hurts.
- adamriggins, on 10/10/2007, -1/+68Seriously, this looks pretty good. I love preview on Tiger, but this looks like they have made it even better. You really can't beat native .pdf support. I HATE having to wait on Acrobat to load on my work computer.
- kungming2, on 10/10/2007, -0/+55we'll probably see a spotlight on spotlight soon. ;)
- adamriggins, on 10/10/2007, -2/+47or, if you exported the web page to a pdf, then opened it in Preview. It would be a preview of Preview in Preview.
*BOOM* (head blows up) - Ireland, on 10/10/2007, -2/+37Leopard is turning out nice. Now MS, watch and learn.
- runeasgar, on 10/10/2007, -2/+29ha.. right..
I've used both.. absolutely no comparison. Even the features that Vista TRIES to impersonate are inferior. - SirG3, on 10/10/2007, -6/+33A quick look at QuickLook....
- misterjangles, on 10/10/2007, -0/+23Actually, in 10 years we will have "a look back at Time Machine"
- nanboya, on 10/10/2007, -0/+20Resizing in Preview will be a great addition to making it useful for basic image editing stuff. Looking forward to 10.5!
- lpmiller, on 10/10/2007, -0/+20submitter already admitted that in the 3rd comment, bright boy.
- Ramble, on 10/10/2007, -0/+16Since when?
- Szandor, on 10/10/2007, -1/+16Swing and a miss.
- rspeed, on 10/10/2007, -0/+13Because surely there's no such thing as redirects!
- tvon, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11Yup, that is exactly why they said "a matter of weeks."
- Kypt, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11One thing that I hate about Preview (or maybe I just haven't found how to do it...) is the inability to just hit "next" to get to the next picture on the folder. Sure, I can grab all pictures and click open and it will open them all on the drawer, but if they're big pictures it will take forever since it will actually open them all at the same time. I downloaded Xee and that took care of my folder picture browsing needs, but if someone knows of a way to do it on preview, please tell.
- cleverhanz, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10Name calling, no capitalization, any you didn't even look at the previous comments, yet you feel entitled to call someone else a moron. Nice.
- runeasgar, on 10/10/2007, -1/+11You should rarely need Preview in Leopard.. Quick Look is so much faster that the only time you'll need Preview is if you need to do more than just see what you're previewing.
Which is why they're building in additional functionality to Preview..
Personally, after trying Quick Look, I rarely ever even opened Preview. - manitoba98xp, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10How about an exposé on Exposé?
A mail about Mail? - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -5/+14"In a matter of weeks?" Isn't Leopard coming out this month (October)? I hope that they mean 2-3 weeks at max.
- DCstewieG, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9Since it's your work computer you might be screwed, but install FoxIt Reader if you can. It comes up every time PDFs are discussed, and for good reason.
- BlueStarr, on 10/10/2007, -1/+9They have and the best they can come up with is Vista. Don't bury me, it's true. Facts are facts.
- tritisan, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8I completely agree. Acrobat is so slow and bloated. I don't want to purchase full version just so I can edit and annotate. Also, the most recent version of Reader allows a huge Mac OS no-no: View > Menu ERASES the top Menu bar. No other Mac app I've ever seen does this. What's the point? Now, try to get your menu bar back...figured it out yet?...What, don't remember the shortcut key?...Oh, guess I'll just quit Reader and use Preview instead.
- sp1keNARF, on 10/10/2007, -5/+13they should keep preview as simple as possible, but add support for more file types...
- inactive, on 10/20/2007, -0/+7you just ***** it there...
- occupant, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7Preview is already one of my most used apps - now it looks like I'll be able to ditch Acrobat for almost everything. Annotating pdfs and creating links are the two primary things I needed Acrobat for - my only questions are:
How big are the pdfs? Right now the finder makes bloated pdfs. Any optimization options?
Can you set image dpi, embed fonts, etc, for output like in Acrobat?
And the notes/annotations, are they *shudders* Mac only, therefore useles? It wouldn't be the first time. - FenrisUlf, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7Then you're going to love QuickLook.
- gharding, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6I agree.. I've been stuck using Automator or iPhoto to resize stuff and that's really no fun.
- rspeed, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6I think AppleInsider changed the title of the article. I recall the title being 3.0 when I found the link from their RSS feed. Later I noticed that it had changed when I saw it as a link from a different site with the current title (4.0).
- Linh, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6very nice. I never liked preview in tiger though. I hope it will be easier to scroll through a directory of images from loading up one.
- beerbarron, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6A good preview of preview 4.0, the PDF handling features look most impressive, as does the masking, thats rather drool worthy
- adamriggins, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5steeeriiiiiike
- dubbleenerd, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Great, this should work well for me with my sizable collection of pdfs for school.. with a document manager like Kip.. no real need for Acrobat anymore.
- dragazis, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Please note I am not trying to spam, but as a current Leopard seed user, Preview isn't as good as Skim ( http://skim-app.sourceforge.net/ ) for PDF's. Preview definitely has a lot of nice improvements with a sidebar rather than a drawer as well as better image handling and editing for simple tasks, but for PDF's Skim has it beat.
- DaffyDuck, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6Like that cheesy flip3d vs. the actually useful exposé.
- refreshthis, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5I disagree. I think they should add more features while still keeping it as fast as possible.
- wedges, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Skim looks cool. I wish they could merge with Xee, and make Xim. or Skee. That way, I would never have to use preview again.
- DaffyDuck, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5Like that cheesy flip3d vs. the actually useful exposé.
- sp1keNARF, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4what 'features' does a file previewing utility need, besides the ability to preview more types of files? as soon as they add more 'features', it becomes slower and less useful as a preview utility
- MacParrot, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4C'mon guys, give him a break. You know deltabourne is...special
- Kyan, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Damn, have Digg comments changed again?
- koko775, on 10/10/2007, -2/+5People digging him down, I believe QuickLook is the tech behind the new Preview features in 10.5.
- adamriggins, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3i'll check that out. It will give me something to do at work other than sleep.
- MacFloyd, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Actually, "brushed metal" is the look that Apple is moving away from (for an example, look at the current iCal or Safari in Tiger). What you must be talking about is the "unified metal" look which Leopard is going to use system-wide. Doesn't look half bad, either, I don't think.
- Me1000, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3never
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3This could explain why Adobe has been putting out rumours CS3 wont work in Leopard to stop people upgrading. First Apple cut into the pro video editing market, then video player, lightroom, and now PDF. If the image editing in preview and iphoto is good enough most of the basic users wont bother with elements. If only pixelmater was good enough to replace Photoshop, we wouldn't need that either.
- stalefries, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Really, both of you want the same thing: keep Preview the light-weight simple app that it is. Add features if it won't turn into bloatware.
- tvon, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3I detected sarcasm and mockery, and voted up. If I am mistaken, please let me know so I can adjust my vote accordingly.
- BlueStarr, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Thanks for the heads up.
- astrosmash, on 10/10/2007, -0/+21. The Desktop GUI and Unix subsystems are separate. NEXTSTEP and OS X take the right approach: don't contaminate the Desktop with Unix stuff, and don't contaminate Unix with Desktop stuff. It's a lesson other Unix Desktop really need to learn.
2. If you really want to see /usr/bin in Finder (although I can't image why) use the Command+Shift+G short cut.
3. To open your Ruby script in Finder, associate it with Terminal.app or iTerm.app.
Also, *.command files are already associated with Terminal.app and are interpreted like any other shell script. You can use those files to kick-off any scripting you want to do. -
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