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Use Preview In OS X Lion To It's Full Advantage
Mar 11, 2025
Taking a look at how-to use and find some of the new features in Preview in Mac OS X Lion.
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[Music]
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hey everyone today I'm going to show you
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how you can make the most out of preview
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in Mac OS 10 line by using some of the
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new built-in features so let's jump
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right into this uh first off I have a
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little picture here it's an Apple logo
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I'm just going to open this up with
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preview and you can see it right here
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now the first feature that's included in
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preview in Mac OS 10 line has is
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included in a lot of applications is
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versions so basically if I hover over
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the title you see this little arrow pop
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down and I can click browse all versions
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and then you'll jump into this time
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machine interface and from here you can
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see the two different versions the one
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that's completely annotated and the one
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right here which is the original logo so
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if I want to jump back to the original
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one I can just hit restore and that
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works just like that and also included
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with preview in line is full screen mode
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just like many of the other applications
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and from here I can have full control
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over browsing and editing pictures and
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PDFs the same way a new feature when
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editing photos though is with the
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annotations if I click the little
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annotate button right here and I click
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on this little box right here by the
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arrow you can see I can do a text box
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but now I can also do a speech bubble or
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a thought bubble so if I click speech
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bubble I can click and drag out a speech
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bubble
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and uh from here I could type something
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in there and I can also change the lime
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thickness of course and do all different
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kinds of things maybe I don't want it
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dashed and I can do the same thing for a
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thought
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bubble there's also a new feature called
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smart magnifier so if I go up to the
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tools menu and I hit show magnifier what
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it's going to do is give me this little
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round magnifier kind of like the
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magnifier if you ever select text in iOS
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and you can see that I can have a
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closeup detailed view of this picture
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and if I zoom in on the picture and uh I
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can get even better View at it I can
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also toggle this magnifier by just
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hitting the back tick key on my keyboard
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now as far as PDFs go there's quite a
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few new features as well so one of the
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first things you can do with PDFs just
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like pictures is go to full screen mode
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and from here I could swipe back and
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forth through pages just like that and I
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can see the page number and I have full
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accessibility to all my tools I also
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have a lot of new search options so if I
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search something in this camera manual
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like
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Zoom you can see on the sidebar now it
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gives me a thumbnail for each page I can
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click on the page to go to it and it
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also shows me some text around the page
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and how many matches there are so it
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kind of gives you an expanded view of
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that and I can look at page order or
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search rank there's also some cool new
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options with notes if I click on the
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notes Tab and and I want to put a note
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right here you can see that what it does
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is it draws a line to the sidebar kind
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of keeps my notes all in order and
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organize just how I'd like them so
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that's kind of nice as well one of the
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other new things is that I can now click
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on the little signature Tab and from
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here I can create a signature from my
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built-in eyesight camera so all I have
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to do is hold a picture up to the camera
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once it loads and I just have to align
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it on the blue line and you can see that
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it comes into preview and it brings in
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signature right there and I can click
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accept and now if I go to the
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preferences menu under preview and under
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signatures you can see here that these
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are my saved signatures and I've never
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used this one it says and I have the
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signature that I can use for any PDF so
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that's neat as well and another thing
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that deserves to be mentioned is that
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now you can open and work with Microsoft
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Word as well as ior documents right from
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within preview now so you can view those
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types of documents and you get similar
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tools as you would with a PDF so those
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are some of the new features in preview
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in Mac OS 10 line perhaps they can make
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preview more useful to you as always if
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you have any questions that you'd like
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to see me do a video how to on make sure
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to send me an email I hope you found
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this video useful and thank you for
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watching
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