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A Look at Leopard's Preview 4.0

so is it a givin' that Leopard will launch in Oct. or an assumption?

Thanks,

Trout
 
I think it's funny that OS X has this exquisite app for editing, viewing, and modifying pdf's/pictures but it still doesn't have a simple "Sound Recorder" app.


Garageband doesn't count. I'm talking simple, and comes with the OS.

Also, maybe throw in another game to go with Chess.


Anyway, hopefully this version of preview actually displays animated .gifs
 
Trout74 said:
so is it a givin' that Leopard will launch in Oct. or an assumption?
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Apple has said so, personally I trust them on this one...

Stridder44 said:
I think it's funny that OS X has this exquisite app for editing, viewing, and modifying pdf's/pictures but it still doesn't have a simple "Sound Recorder" app.
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Its included in QT Pro...I've heard that Leopard's regular QT has full screen, so maybe it has this...
 
I Am Designer™ said:
Wow - I think thats the 1st time since I joined that someone has actually taken a useful screengrab of Leopard without having to be harrassed into it! :)

And I must say that I think (whilst looking at your screengrab) this is the first time I actually think the new dock looks great... It might be the dark background image but have Apple fixed the multiple shadow issue?

Could you do a grab of iCal?... Preferably adding a new event?... ...and maybe stacks / stacks options?... :)
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here you go-- screen caps of ical.. if we do much more of this, we're gonna need a new thread..

http://i21.tinypic.com/2h52og1.png

http://i21.tinypic.com/nwbmyq.png

http://i24.tinypic.com/fvbr06.png

http://i21.tinypic.com/fyet8y.png
 
leopard, MBP & scanner

i'll be "making the switch to MAC" and buying a MBP 17 (w/leopard) as soon as it's available;
to digitize 1000's of family slides and photos, i've been looking at the microtec scanmaker i900, the epson perfection V700 and the canon 8800F (all can deal 12 slides at a time and get decent reviews)...

any comments or suggestions, especially re. the pairing of leopard, the MBP and any of these (or other) scanners?

thanks, karl:confused:
 
one more for iamdesigner-- here's a pic of stacks.. it's showing my "documents" folder.. i also changed up the background to something that i took, just so you get an idea of how real life photos look with the new UI.

http://i21.tinypic.com/a3f335.png
 
burrito said:
here you go-- screen caps of ical.. if we do much more of this, we're gonna need a new thread..
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Thanks for the pics, iCal looks really nice and improved. Also Love Sin City and like to see that someone else goes to the effort to have the Cover art (for the icon i assume)

burrito said:
one more for iamdesigner-- here's a pic of stacks.. it's showing my "documents" folder.. i also changed up the background to something that i took, just so you get an idea of how real life photos look with the new UI.
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Good picture and nice to see how the Menu bar goes into opaque mode.

I often forget how Leopard actually looks and seeing it like this makes me want it more, definitely looking forward to it's release.
 
xUKHCx said:
Thanks for the pics, iCal looks really nice and improved. Also Love Sin City and like to see that someone else goes to the effort to have the Cover art (for the icon i assume)
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sin city is excellentness. it is my all time favorite movie. i'm prepping this imac to be a media server for my family's macs and apple tvs, and i'm testing handbrake's presets and its performance under leopard.. and yes, the jpg is for the icon and preview image in itunes :-D
 
Uhmm.. Preview has kicked butt for a while now. I have trade free acrobat a ew times. It is slow and slower.
 
Kipling said:
Apart from the free Acrobat Reader - which allows no file modification at all –all we get from Adobe these days is Acrobat Professional, which is a whopping £459 here in the UK ($900?). Windows users get a cheaper version with fewer unnecessary functions.

Looks like Apple is kindly filling the gap.
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Aside from being expensive, Acrobat (full-version) is also so bloated and slow I fear my computer will crash every time I use it.

Funnily enough though, it run just as slow on my brand new iMac as it does on the old eMac or a G4 laptop. It's almost as if Adobe is actually detecting your hardware and purposely setting itself up to be a dog no matter how much memory you have. :)
 
burrito said:
sin city is excellentness. it is my all time favorite movie. i'm prepping this imac to be a media server for my family's macs and apple tvs, and i'm testing handbrake's presets and its performance under leopard.. and yes, the jpg is for the icon and preview image in itunes :-D
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I'm glad to see HandBake's current build works in Leopard. I use this program almost daily, and the most recent build works spectacularly. Your iMac should get better numbers than I do with the presets with my CD 2.0 Macbook. If I choose the AppleTV preset (MPEG-4 to save time) I can get a 2+ hour movie done in about 45 minutes.

As for Preview, this is fantastic. I use it all the time as a quick image viewer, but always wanted to be able to resize it so I don't have to open CS2 (which takes a while to start on my Macbook).

Originally Posted by Orng
I've always hated Preview; I go to open a jpeg or an eps or something and suddenly it's opening in Preview. If I saved it in photoshop, or someone else did, then no problem. But if it's from another application that I don't have, it opens in Preview by default and I have to right click and "open with" to make it open in Photoshop or illustrator.

I have gone into Info and selected "Always use this application (photoshop or illustrator) to open this kind of file" but inevitably, I'll get a jpeg or an EPS from a client that just has to open in preview, and then I have to close it and right click and open with...

I hope the new preview will have an option to select "I don't want Preview to open ever, under any circumstances, unless I right click and select "Open with Preview" which happens twice a year.
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If your files open directly in the application you created/saved it in consistently, and only opens if you don't have the application that created the image file, why is this a problem? As someone else suggested, you could always just delete Preview, since you already have another application to handle your images.
 
The additional PDF tools is great news indeed. As a Phd student, the lack of a highlighting tool in the current version of Preview is something that really bugged me.
 
<chandler>
Could the menu bar BE more gray?
</chandler>

Thank you for the screenshots burrito, such a nice thing for a delicious meal to do. You're quite the tasty one, I wish I'd have you right now.
 
Maccus Aurelius said:
If your files open directly in the application you created/saved it in consistently, and only opens if you don't have the application that created the image file, why is this a problem? As someone else suggested, you could always just delete Preview, since you already have another application to handle your images.
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It's mostly a problem because I have clients sending me graphics on regular basis created in who knows what and when, and even though the extension is the same, it goes to preview if it can't tell it was made in photoshop or illustrator. If i forget to right click, I get annoyed. Can't delete it though, sometimes I use it for my own stuff, or to flip through a bunch of files quickly.

Hopefuly the Leopard finder will eliminate any residual need for Preview, THEN I'll delete it. :)
 
I am very pleased with these features and can't wait. I use PDFs all the time and these littleextras will be invaluable. Apple really do come up with the goods every now and then.

Will it be possible to insert additional pages or combine PDFs together, I use PDFClerk at the moment but to have something within the OS would be even better?
 
What The Hey !!!

bjdku said:
this sucks. Preview should be as lightweight as possible. It should do what it implies, preview. Allowing it to open in the appropriate application from preview would be nice. I guess Apple has other things that dont do what the name implies...ah em...iTunes.
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Does this buy work for ADOBE ?
 
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