OS X V10.6 Snow Leopard :: Preview No Longer Imports Pdfs Into Each Other?

Jun 7, 2012

Last year I could add pdf documents together in Preview to make a compilation that was much easier to print in booklet form as it avoided blank pages. Some time this year the behaviour changed, and now when I drag one open pdf onto the window of another, although on screen they look as if they are now one, even if I highlight each page in the sidebar when I press Print only the first one prints, which is a retrograde step IMO. 

Is there a way to get the old behaviour back? This was a new feature in Snow Leopard and has been immensely useful to me, significantly increasing my productivity. It also used to be able to save the three pdfs as one file, but this too is no longer possible. 

Is there a setting I can change in order to allow pdf import again? I can't even import files that last year I successfully imported to make new combined files, so I know it is not the pdf settings on the pdf file, it is definitely something that changed in preview itself in Snow Leopard in early 2012.

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OS X V10.6 Snow Leopard :: Why Suddenly Cannot Open PDFs On Web With Preview App

May 5, 2012

Have a Mac Book Pro 5.4 running mac os x 10.6.8. Recently I am unable to open bank statements or other pdf's on the web with preview. Unless I install Adobe Reader all I get is dark black screen. I've tried using Firefox instead of Safari but have the same problem. Somehow a pdf created with Adobe Reader can no longer be opened with preview. I've check and preview is the default app for .pdf files. I tried deleting Adobe Reader for Mac but when I click on the web link preview can't open the document.

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mac book pro, Mac OS X (10.6.5)

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OS X V10.6 Snow Leopard :: Can No Longer Save PDFs When Using Safari

Apr 18, 2012

After I installed the recent Apple security patch, I can no longer save PDFs when using Safari. And Firefox no longer can open website PDFs.

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Safari :: Cannot See PDFs In 5.1.5 Using Snow Leopard?

May 4, 2012

I cannot see pdfs in Safari 5.1.5 using Snow leopard. This started @ 2 weeks ago.

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Mac G5 2x2.66 GHz Dual Core Intel X, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

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OS X V10.6 Snow Leopard :: Can't Print Or See Pdfs In Dialogue With 10.6.8

May 3, 2012

After installing 10.6.8 and safari 5.1.5, can't print pdfs from sites. Unable to save same pdfs also. Installed lasted software for my printer. Firefox doesn't display the pdfs.Worked fine with 10.6.7.

Info:PowerMac, Mac OS X (10.6.6)

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OS X V10.6 Snow Leopard :: Can't Open Pdfs In Firefox

May 3, 2012

Can't open Pdfs in firefox, works fine in Safari.

Info:MacBook Pro (13-inch Late 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.3)

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Mac Pro :: PDFs In Snow Leopard Safari Cannot Be Exported Or Saved

May 18, 2012

I have started having trouble with PDFs in Safari this week. I can see them on screen, but if I try to save them by Save As command, I get a message saying it cannot be exported as a xxx.pdf. If I try doing it through the Print command, saving it as a PDF, the preview window shows a blank document. Something has fundamentally changed in the last week.

Info:
MacPro, iMac, MBPro 2.66 Intel Core i7, MackBook 2 G2, various G5's, Mac OS X (10.6.6), 1 TB Time Capsule (early 2009) & Airport Express

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OS X :: Large PDFs Slow In Preview

Jun 7, 2009

I seem to be having trouble with large PDFs in OSX. Everytime I open such a PDF file, either under Preview or Adobe Reader, ATSserver and mdworker begin taking up 60-80% of the CPU. Can someone please shed some light into what is happening? I understand that OSX is indexing the PDF file, but it indexes it everytime the PDF is launched, instead of just once. For example, I open Textbook.pdf (50mb) in Preview. As soon as it opens, the above two processes take up 60-80% of the cpu and seemingly dont stop. I wait, and wait, and eventually they do. So then I search for a word in the PDF file, and those processes start up again, searching becomes painfully slow as each instance of the term is searched for (I thought it indexed it). Once the searching for one term is done, and I decide to search for another, the two processes come on again, and everything slows down again. If I close Textbook.pdf and open it again either immediately or at a later date, the same things happen again.

Isnt it supposed to index once, and then be indexed forever? Instead of indexing everytime the pdf is launched, and everytime a term is searched for? This has made large PDFs almost unusable in OSX, unlike in Windows which doesnt seem to have this problem. Is there a solution?

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OS X :: Preview Not Loading Some PDFs (incompatibility?)

Mar 22, 2010

This PDF [URL] Will not load properly, it is all messed up in preview. If I get that same file and drop it into my XP virtual running adobe acrobat, it loads perfectly. Why is this the Case? would this be something Eli Lilly did when they saved the file and it does not open up correctly? All other PDFs from different companies load fine, its this Eli Lilly ones that seem to have this issue. (I am running the latest snow leopard)

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OS X V10.7 Lion :: Merging PDFs In Preview?

Mar 18, 2012

I can't seem to merge PDFs in Preview 5.5.1. I've read that you simply open multiple PDFs in the thumbnail and then place one PDF on top of another, but when I try, the two PDFs just wiggle around and change order. If not preview - what program should I use?

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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.2)

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OS X V10.7 Lion :: Preview Loading Of PDFs Has Become Slow?

Apr 18, 2012

Preview has become very slow to load PDFs. This is for any PDF file.  It still loads graphics quickly. This problem started a couple of weeks ago. I do not have "Restore windows when quitting and re-opening apps" checked in the General pane of System Preferences.

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Macbook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.3)

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OS X V10.7 Lion :: Slow After Joining Pdfs In Preview?

May 16, 2012

I regualrly have to join several PDF files into one document. They way I am doing this at the moment is through preview i.e. simply dragging and dopping the files over one another in the thumbnail side bar. However, at some point the computer invariably freezes showing me the spinning wheel of death for perhaps 15mins. Some times I cannot revover and have to force a hard reboot. Other times, I can get it to soft reboot after waiting for ages. The funny thing is the resulting file is fine since I can access after it after performing the reboot. 

why this is and how I can avoid it since it wasts alot of time. 

Specs of my MacBook are:Processor 2.8 Ghz Intel Core i7

Memory 4GB 1333 Mhz DDR3 I have 600 GB of hard disc space free 

I am running OSX 10.7.3 

The total size of the documents I want to join amounted to less than 4 Mb so I don't think I should be running out of memory. 

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MacBook
Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)

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MacBook Pro :: How To Get Pdfs To Open In Adobe Not Preview

Jun 23, 2012

How do I set file associations so when I click a pdf in a browser, it opens and I don't get a blank preview window?

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MacBookPro

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Safari :: Can No Longer Print PDFs In It

Apr 17, 2012

A couple of days ago I had no trouble printing a PDF which was open in a Safari window. Now when I have a PDF open in Safari and I try to print a page of it, the print window that appears shows a blank page, and if I click Print, the paper comes out blank. I tried opening the same PDF in Firefox and the window itself is blank. It works in Chrome.

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OS X :: Preview.app Displays PDFs With Missing Or Distorted Text

Jul 10, 2009

I've been having intermittent problems with the Preview app showing PDF files with either missing text or distorted fonts. The PDFs all display correctly if I use Adobe Acrobat (Reader or Professional). The one I can consistently get to malfunction is the PDF generated by the Postal Service label generator. The barcode always prints incorrectly by Preview, yet if I pull up that very same file in Adobe, it displays and prints just fine.

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Software :: Merging Multi - Page Pdfs In Preview

Jun 13, 2009

I have read on a lot of forums that it is possible to merge AND SAVE multi-page pdfs with preview. I can get all of the images I want, but when I go to save as pdf in the print menu, it only shows ONE page. I have seen tutorials online and I have followed them step-by-step (I have Leopard 10.5.6), and simply cannot make this work - it will only save one page.

I have Adobe in my parallels but I absolutely loathe opening it because it brings my computer speed down to a crawl.

Please, if someone knows of a workaround for this, let me know! I am taking tons of screen shots and trying to merge them as pdfs in a quick way so I can send back and forth with my web designer.

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Safari :: PDFs Not Opening In Preview - Getting Blank Screen

May 29, 2012

Whenever I click on a PDF in my Safari window all I get is a blank screen. For some reason it has stopped opening them in Preview. I need to look at a number of PDF's. If I could download them I would but these links do not give me that option. What do I do?

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Mac Pro, iOS 5.1.1

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MacBook Air :: Forcing Preview To See Downloaded PDFs Automatically

Jun 22, 2014

Forcing preview to see downloaded pdf's automatically. Safari downloads these but preview doesn't open it unless forced. My other MB air downloads them and automatically opens them in th media viewer of Safari. 

MB air 11' OS 10.7

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MacBook Pro :: Its No Longer Open Pdfs In My Browsers

May 8, 2012

All of a sudden, I can no longer open pdfs in my browers (Safari and Firefox). I can dowload them to my computer and then open them, but I would like to be able to view them online.

Info:MacBookPro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

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OS X :: Bug In Snow Leopard's Preview?

Oct 29, 2009

Snow Leopard's Preview can no longer do a search for dollar amounts accurately. This worked just fine in Leopard, but no longer works in Snow Leopard. Go ahead and download a PDF of your most recent bank statement, or any PDF that has a bunch of dollar amounts in it. Then, do a find for one of the dollar amounts. For example, do a find for: 50.00

Preview will no longer find a match for 50.00... instead, it will find any instance of "50" or "00" in your entire PDF file. It uses the decimal point as some sort of a delimiter, and it makes Preview believe that you are doing 2 completely separate searches.

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OS X :: Preview Application Seems Gimped In Snow Leopard

Sep 1, 2009

I opened a PDF to crop some parts of the file and there are two big issues:
1. I cannot crop multiple pages anymore. There just isn't that option in Inspector or anywhere else. I can only crop one page at a time.
2. Not only can I not crop more than one page at a time, but cropping doesn't actually delete the date. I can go to "View | PDF Display | Crop Box" and see what I just cropped!

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Applications :: Downgrading Snow Leopard's Preview

Oct 13, 2009

Is there a way to downgrade the Preview application in Snow Leopards. Just because i don't like the Insta Alfa in the new Preview

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OS X :: Preview Not Displaying Images Since Snow Leopard

Oct 13, 2009

Since I upgraded to Snow Leopard, I've been noticing that Preview does not display images. A box will open and the background will be there, but no picture. I can scan images, and the automatic preview image that pops up is blank. I can download images from the internet, and they will appear as icons on my desktop, but when I double click them I get an appropriately sized blank Preview box. I can save the image to a thumb drive and put it on my girlfriend's computer (we run identical iMacs, for reference), and it will appear on her computer, but she is using the Adobe suite.

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OS X V10.6 Snow Leopard :: View The ULR Of A Pdf Opened In Preview?

Feb 4, 2012

How do I view the ULR of a pdf I have opened in Preview?  

When I google something and find a pdf I want, I open it in Preview. However, when I go to copy the URL of the document to use as a resource in my homework

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OS X V10.6 Snow Leopard :: On 10.6, Preview Will Not Open An Encrypted PDF

Feb 28, 2012

On two Macs running 10.6, Preview will not open a password protected PDF that was sent to me. The same PDF opens on two other Macs running 10.7.

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OS X V10.6 Snow Leopard :: Cannot Open It With Preview Application

Mar 19, 2012

Why is it that when you have a Word document, you cannot open it with Preview application,but if you pretend you are printing it, then you can preview it in Preview, - same Preview application.So why Preview cannot open the same Word document ?

Info:Mac Pro

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OS X V10.6 Snow Leopard :: Preview - Saving Pdf To Jpeg?

Mar 28, 2012

I have a lot of multipage pdf's that I need to reduce in file size. They are scanned pdf's so no actual editable content.

If i select a page and 'save as' I can save to jpeg where I can reset the dpi of the page (currently 300dpi). This is Fine, but I need to do it to all the pages of the pdf. If I select all pages 'save as' will only save out one page and not all.

If I print and choose 'pdf to jpeg', It will save out all pages but I don't get the ability to reduce to dpi and the output jpgs are still huge. Is there a way to save to pages out in one go to jpeg where I can adjust the dpi setting?

I have tried using the reduce file size option, but the resulting pdf has lost too much quality and is unreadable. Once I have the reduced jpegs it's easy enough to reimport into preview and save as a pdf. 

Info:
iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

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OS X :: Preview 5.0 (Snow Leopard) Crashing On Save As Command

Sep 15, 2009

Having an issue where Preview is crashing at the end of a Save As (hangs briefly when the progress bar is full, then crashes) -- happens pretty consistently. Running 10.6.1 (on top of a fresh 10.6 install), but happened in 10.6 as well, though perhaps not as often. Have plenty of memory.

One snippet of the crash report:
Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)
Exception Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x0000000000000010
Crashed Thread: 0 Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
I have a vague feeling that the issue might not be in Preview, per se, but in the OS.

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OS X :: Snow Leopard (Preview Option In Files Changed)

Dec 6, 2009

I just got an imac and I saw that the preview function in the folders have changed a bit from Tiger. I was wondering how you can fast forward mp3's and movies in the small preview function?

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OS X :: Printing PDF From Preview - Colors Inverted In Snow Leopard

Feb 20, 2010

I have a PDF that I scanned in myself and the first time I printed it it printed just the way it was supposed to. The next time I opened up the file in preview it looked normal on my screen but when I went to print it the output in the printer had the colors inverted. I have tried printing from preview and adobe acrobat and it printed the same the blacks came out white and the whites came out black. So I tried printing it from a windows computer and the file printed as it should, the colors were normal not inverted.

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