Bookmarks in Preview?

On 20/10/2004 9:20 AM, "Miraz" <mirazmactips.info> spake thus:

> With a physical book I'd grab a slip of paper and add a bookmark so I know
> where to come back to when I pick it up again. I can't locate any way of doing
> that in Preview.

The other bizarre thing that Preview does is that when you open a PDF in
full-screen mode, scroll down a few pages, then hit ESC, it jumps back to
the page you started at. This is a real pain if you're using a PDF to do a
presentation and need to "drop out" of the presentation in the middle to
look at another PDF. You're stuck trying to remember which page you were on
when you go back to the presentation (speaking from experience here).

Note that switching to a different application altogether is fine, you can
just Cmd-Tab out of Preview and back without leaving full-screen mode. It's
only when you need to switch documents in Preview. I don't think there's any
way to switch documents other than by using the Window menu, so you're stuck
with having to drop out of full-screen mode to switch. Unless you run
multiple copies of Preview... no, that's just silly :)

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At 13:20 -0700 19/10/2004, Miraz wrote in Bookmarks in Preview?: what I want is to be able to simply double click the PDF and be at the page I was last reading.

Any suggestions?

[Why not just minimize the window to your Dock, then put the Mac to sleep? That's more akin to setting a physical book face down to keep your place. -Adam]

That assumes I'm happy to keep Preview running until the next time I open that book. There can be many reasons that won't work - one being that it sometimes takes me days, weeks or months to complete one book, depending on work flow and other factors. In between times I may Quit Preview, restart the machine, maybe choose to file the book in another location, whatever.

When I listen to Audible books the Pause button creates a bookmark I can come back to. That's the kind of feature I want with Preview.

I have in my web: http://homepage.mac.com/javier_diaz_r/bookmark.sit a simple AppleScript to do that.

On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 06:55:04 -0700, Nigel Stanger
<nstangerinfoscience.otago.ac.nz> wrote:
> On 20/10/2004 9:20 AM, "Miraz" <mirazmactips.info> spake thus:
>
> > With a physical book I'd grab a slip of paper and add a bookmark so I know
> > where to come back to when I pick it up again. I can't locate any way of doing
> > that in Preview.
>
> The other bizarre thing that Preview does is that when you open a PDF in
> full-screen mode, scroll down a few pages, then hit ESC, it jumps back to
> the page you started at. This is a real pain if you're using a PDF to do a
> presentation and need to "drop out" of the presentation in the middle to
> look at another PDF. You're stuck trying to remember which page you were on
> when you go back to the presentation (speaking from experience here).
>
> Note that switching to a different application altogether is fine, you can
> just Cmd-Tab out of Preview and back without leaving full-screen mode. It's
> only when you need to switch documents in Preview. I don't think there's any
> way to switch documents other than by using the Window menu, so you're stuck
> with having to drop out of full-screen mode to switch. Unless you run
> multiple copies of Preview... no, that's just silly :)

Actually there is a "rotate between open windows in my current app"
command (thankfully it's not written out on the key... ;-) You'll need
to experiment to be sure, I think on the QWERTY keyboard it's Apple :
~ (it's been a number of years since I used a US keyboard, but if
memory serves it's the key just below esc.) On the French keyboard
it's Apple : < and I use it all the time even with Exposé now,
sometimes I can't be bothered to do both a keyboard AND a mouse manip
to get where I want to be...

[Command-tilde. Let's not stray too far, though, please... -Adam]

Another possible cheat for you: I've heard of people duplicating
applications in the Finder and then naming them something identifiable
and switching between apps that way, YMMV.

Good luck to you,

Christopher Appell

> I'm using Preview for the reading.
>
> With a physical book I'd grab a slip of paper and add a bookmark so I
> know where to come back to when I pick it up again. I can't locate any
> way of doing that in Preview.

If you believe the rumour sites, bookmarks may be a new feature in the
Mac OS X Tiger version of Preview. Along with annotation of PDF files.

http://www.appleinsider.com/article.php?id=650

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