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Make The Most Out Of Preview In OS X Lion [Video How-To]

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The new version of Preview in OS X Lion has a handful of interesting new features. From adding signatures to improved searching, the application is overall more useful and handy when it comes to viewing and editing documents and PDFs. In this video, I’ll show you the new features in Preview, and how to use them.

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29 responses to “Make The Most Out Of Preview In OS X Lion [Video How-To]”

  1. Munas says:

    Thank you for sharing info and news, it is greatto have someone saving us from digging for a new features and allowing just dive directly to use ones after short and informative review. RTFM is the last thing I do, however short and informative overview is always very helpful.
    Just to add to magnifier function in preview app: it is possible to use trackpad’s pinch zoom functionality when magnifier is active to increase magnification of the loupe itself without zooming an image or a pdf (hopefully works with other file types as well)

  2. Samir Estefan says:

    Michael, another useful feature is the ability to mix different PDF documents in one, reorder the pages of these documents and creating a new document from them

  3. Jdsonice says:

    Great video. Thank you for sharing. 

  4. GooneyGooGoo says:

    Wow, some really lame features.  They just now added a “full screen” button? Seriously?!

    http://bit.ly/dI3hcF

  5. EthanVanser says:

    I got an iPad 2 32-GB for $21.68 and my girlfriend loves her Panasonic Lumix GF 1 Camera that we got for $ 38.76 there arriving tomorrow by UPS. I will never pay such expensive retail prices in stores again. Especially when I also sold a 40 inch LED TV to my boss for $ 657 which only cost me $ 62.81 . Here is the site we use to get it al from, http://to.ly/aXiO

  6. SarahTurner902080 says:

    Wow, some really lame features.http://bit.ly/Bid1st

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  7. Adam Cohen says:

    What software do you use to highlight your cursor when you click.  I am a teacher and this would be very useful when I am showing students where to find things. Please let me know any free options that you may know of.

  8. Michael Steeber says:

    I use ScreenFlow, but you can use QuickTime’s built in screen recorder as well. It has a more subtle black highlight, but it still works. 

  9. Prashanth Athani says:

    Very nice and helpful video

  10. SpongebobUK says:

    One of the very useful features that has been removed from this version of Preview was its ability to unlock secured Adobe pdfs by opening in Preview and then re-saving allowing you to copy and paste from pdfs into any document form (as with unsecured pdfs). While I recognise that there are potential copyright issues here it was nonetheless a really useful feature – very sadly missed. I guess that I’ll have to get a third party app to do the same job.

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  12. Peter Thorn says:

    @twitter-83633934:disqus : yes, a very good feature, but not new to lion.@MichaelSteeber:disqus : Great video – thank you.

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  14. Holystain says:

    yep, very helpful. i’am on lion now and don’t have a flash and your video needs it to be played :) lol

  15. gregbraddock says:

    is it just me or does anybody else’s preview seem slower compared to Snow Leopard?

  16. SeoEkrem says:

    thats very nice . i like it 

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