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FUN WITH USING A MAC

MAR
16

Brief Introduction

Somehow I feel it's quite difficult to read through many pages of PDF using my small display of MacBook. Fortunately, I come out with several ideas to improve the readability of reading PDF files with Preview which is our Mac default application to view PDF files.

Setting Default Application

Perhaps you haven't set up your default opening application for PDF file to Preview, you can do the following steps :

  1. Highlight one of your collection of PDF Files
  2. Right click on it to show up the contextual menu
  3. Mouse over on Open With with modifier keys Option() pressed. You should notice that the name is now changed to Always Open With
  4. Choose and Click on Preview
  5. Now, you've done setting up Preview as your default opening PDF Files as well as opening that highlighted file with Preview
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FEB
23

Why do you need to look for others when you've already had free, capable application shipped along with your Leopard?

As Usual, Find Image First

Some of the readers might have known that I like to find an image before starting my tutorial. Here is the chosen one :

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FEB
18

With Preview alone, you can do the most basic image editing, such as Extract Shape.

Pick Your Image

If your image is in the form image type file, i.e. JPEG, GIF, PNG, etc, you can highlight the file and then choose Open With ▸ Preview (if Preview hasn't been set as your default application) or simply use A.

However, if you want to pick your image from existing Application's icon, you can do these steps :

  1. Highlight the icon
  2. Copying it into clipboard (C)
  3. Open Preview
  4. Select File ▸ New From Clipboard (N)

I picked : MacBook Air which I just captured from Apple.

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DEC
29

Responding my recent article Easiest Way to Grab Icon, Luke provides very nice trick that I believe putting it here will be helpful.

With a simple highlight and import, Preview can display exactly the displayed icon. Let's see how to do it.

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NOV
07

Leopard - New Preview Tools

Posted by Wendy digg delicious su


Leopard Preview got some new tools, from the coolest and most useful one to the ugliest and least useful.

Adjust Color

This is the most useful new feature of Preview in Leopard. As its name states, it helps you adjust your image color right inside the Preview. This tool isn't attached to the toolbar. However, you should be able to call it up with keystrokes C or with menu
▸ Tools ▸ Adjust Color.

With some adjustments on Exposure, Brightness, Contrast, Saturation, Temperature, Tint and Sepia, you could actually enhance special effect to your image, like what I did to this Leopard's image Clown Fish.jpg. This image can be found inside
Macintosh HD ▸ Library ▸ Desktop Pictures ▸ Nature.

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SEP
10

Having many images do not guarantee that all of the images is of high quality. Sometimes it's really troublesome to get open those images one by one then get rid of those beasts.

Perhaps, it's time to use the Preview to its fullest. Preview can open a bunch of images at one breath.

And by following these steps, it will be very easy to spot and delete unwanted image.

  • Firstly, highlight all the images to be sorted

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SEP
07

This isn't any joke, Preview is likely to be the best free images editor I'd ever experienced. Though it seems like an usual image editor, Preview has many hidden ultimate powers.

Make the pop up menu appear by using Clk anywhere on the Preview images list.

One of those is the specialty to sort images. It's not just an usual sorting as the file details displayed altogether with sorting process.

From A to Z the name will be displayed. This is usually encountered by many of Mac users, it is so usual yet incredible.

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AUG
23

Preview - PDF Slideshow

Posted by Wendy digg delicious su


There are reasons why Preview most likely to be used by people.

One of those, Preview provides a feature called Slideshow. With slideshow, all pages on the PDF can be read in full screen. The environment for Slideshow is similar to that of Expose, one of the coolest feature presented by Mac. Slideshow also provide Autoplay so it will be able to cross all the page automatically.

This is how the slideshow looks like when it's being played automatically..

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AUG
09

Croppin' Image with Preview

Posted by Wendy digg delicious su


The most powerful and useful feature Cropping Image. Actually everyone will know how to use this application. It's quite nice and easy to understand. In case you do not know, I will tell you.

Sometimes you need a particular part of your image, not the whole of your image. Here you need to crop your image.

Let me tell you the most useful feature in here, you can adjust your cropping area (usually rectangle) by moving its edge (similar to photoshop free transform selection). Nice right?

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