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A Look at Leopard's Preview 4.0

odinsride said:
I just wish they would make preview work so that when you open a picture in a directory, you can flip through all other images in that directory, without having to select all images in finder. I have replaced Preview with Xee for this very reason on my systems.
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I agree. I switched back to Mac from PC two years ago, and I couldn't believe you couldn't do that, since you can in XP. This is one of the few things that I think that XP/Vista handles better than OSX. I was hoping they would make this improvement in Leopard.
 
I Am Designer™ said:
Hey Burito, thank you for the screenshots!! they look awesome!

I think i've come round to the new dock - i downloaded one of buritos screenshots - opened it in preview and made it full screen via 'slideshow' - and the sense of depth does add a certain something extra. it just feels more real, more natural... I can imagine with the new emphasis on which window is uppermost that will be be pushed further... I'm starting to see Leopard as the 'natural' OS - where the previous iterations were the 'glossy / texture' OS's.
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no big.. just happy i can share the leopard love. the new dock is nice, if for no reason other than the fact that it's different. os x has looked pretty much the same for a while, so it's cool to see visible evidence of progress. i still have tiger installed on my main machine (black macbook), and after using the leopard imac for a while, the old dock feels weird. you get used to the new one really quickly.

here's one of my favorite leopard feature, quicklook. this last gen, low-end 1.83 core 2 duo imac was able to load up this 2.2gb rip of sin city almost instantaneously.. with handbrake ripping another movie in the background:

http://i20.tinypic.com/2rdw9cy.png

(the only movie in which britanny murphy has ever looked hot)
 
tripperharrison said:
I agree. I switched back to Mac from PC two years ago, and I couldn't believe you couldn't do that, since you can in XP. This is one of the few things that I think that XP/Vista handles better than OSX. I was hoping they would make this improvement in Leopard.
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CoverFlow and Quick Look not good enough for ya?
 
Doctor Q said:
Your post would have been great if you had also mentioned that if there are new security features, then people complain that Apple's product didn't previously have them, so it must have been full of security holes, which proves that Apple is lax on security.

If only your post had said that, it would have been such a fantastic post. ;)
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LOL You've a rare sense of humor my friend. I love it.;)
 
burrito said:
no big.. just happy i can share the leopard love. the new dock is nice, if for no reason other than the fact that it's different. os x has looked pretty much the same for a while, so it's cool to see visible evidence of progress. i still have tiger installed on my main machine (black macbook), and after using the leopard imac for a while, the old dock feels weird. you get used to the new one really quickly.

here's one of my favorite leopard feature, quicklook. this last gen, low-end 1.83 core 2 duo imac was able to load up this 2.2gb rip of sin city almost instantaneously.. with handbrake ripping another movie in the background:

http://i20.tinypic.com/2rdw9cy.png

(the only movie in which britanny murphy has ever looked hot)
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Having never used Leopard, can someone explain to me why I would ever even open a Quicktime file in Quicktime if I can view the whole thing in Quicklook? (given that it's probably doing the same thing under the hood?)
I mean, is this just rolling Quicktime into the finder?
 
quicktime still provides tighter control and seems a bit more solid, but i do believe that quicktime will lose ground as a standalone product. it is pretty outdated. right now quicktime has some different playback options available to it, and the encoding features (if you have pro), but other than that, you are very much correct.
 
Oh, and while you're coughing up info... how is browsing image folders in finder with coverflow?
 
freaking sweet.. haha.. it comes in extremely handy when dealing with lots of image flies. seems to run pretty snappy, too. i'm actually quite plesantly surprised by it.

oh, something else, finder doesn't crash if a volume suddenly disappears, networked or local.
 
brianus said:
I guess QuickLook is the new Preview, huh? I just hope the new features don't make Preview any less lightweight. I'm going to miss the Drawer..
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I was thinking the same thing-- I like the drawer...
Stella said:
Preview will prove to be a great tool, the enhancements are really good for the average user wanting to do day to day image manipulation tasks.

You can see the integration between iPhoto ( all the image manipulation controls ) and Preview, sharing common modules.
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This is something I really like about OS X. Most of these basic tools are really just simple GUIs bolted onto the OS frameworks that anyone can use. TextEdit is just a simple Cocoa NSTextView with all the bells and whistles turned on. To my mind, this is the difference between Apple's "bundling" and MS's bundling. Apple allows everyone to recreate what they've done, while MS just ships an app to kill a competitor.
DavidCar said:
Pages '08 doesn't allow multi-PDF links either, unfortunately.
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If I understand what you're trying to do, I think the problem is that you'd be linking to a file that might move. I suppose a URL might go bad too, leaving a dead link, but it seems like a bigger problem if you're linking within the file system.
mkrishnan said:
Ironically, couldn't you resize images in Panther's Preview? :eek: We knew Preview still had the functionality, since Automator has Preview actions for manipulating image size....
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Thank you! I thought I was going insane... If I am, at least I know someone else is having the same hallucination.
SiliconAddict said:
All I want to know is of they have added animated GIF support. Something that XP has had since 2001. :rolleyes:
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This is something else I thought the old Preview had-- wasn't there a "play" button?
 
Leopard

I can't wait for this to come out! =)

Now all I need is the specific date.
 
Will Preview 4.0 support forms properly? For example, files with forms data saved in Preview don't retain their forms. This works just fine in Acrobat.
 
Analog Kid said:
If I understand what you're trying to do, I think the problem is that you'd be linking to a file that might move. I suppose a URL might go bad too, leaving a dead link, but it seems like a bigger problem if you're linking within the file system.
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I need to create a CD with linked PDFs, therefore the files won't move on the CD. I need to create a description of some family stuff, then add links to other PDFs, or audio files, or pictures.

I don't feel like this would be adding a new feature, but rather that they added the hyperlink feature, then crippled it so that it wouldn't work with files. The possibility of files moving and breaking the link bringing complaints from the user is likely the reason why they crippled the feature in Pages, and apparently also the new Preview.
 
DavidCar said:
I need to create a CD with linked PDFs, therefore the files won't move on the CD. I need to create a description of some family stuff, then add links to other PDFs, or audio files, or pictures.

I don't feel like this would be adding a new feature, but rather that they added the hyperlink feature, then crippled it so that it wouldn't work with files. The possibility of files moving and breaking the link bringing complaints from the user is likely the reason why they crippled the feature in Pages, and apparently also the new Preview.
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Yeah, I think you're right on both counts. That's definitely a legitimate use though-- I wonder if you can link to "file://"...
 
burrito said:
freaking sweet.. haha.. it comes in extremely handy when dealing with lots of image flies. seems to run pretty snappy, too. i'm actually quite plesantly surprised by it.

oh, something else, finder doesn't crash if a volume suddenly disappears, networked or local.
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Awesome...this is the biggest frustration I have with OSX :)
 
oh sweet!

i simply ADORE Adobe and their wonderful creative suite 3 apps... but i continue to loath Acrobat... LOATH!!!! i love Preview, and i'll love it even more if i can edit .PDF docs in preview in 10.5... that would own...
 
decksnap said:
Oh, and while you're coughing up info... how is browsing image folders in finder with coverflow?
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It's swish but I wish there was a way of going full-screen with coverflow, or at least an easy way of making it bigger / quickly going full screen on the image you're focused on.
 
Thanks!

theBB said:
I like Epson's GUI better than Canon. V700 has really good reviews, but I could only afford 4490. :)

Isn't this a bit off topic though?
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admitted, quite a bit off topic re. acrobat... but glad i got an answer!
 
My favourite way to resize an image is still with Skitch...lucky I got invited to the beta :)
 
psychofreak said:
Incase you don't know, you can play animated GIFs by opening them with a web browser, but you're right that its not as convenient as Preview support :)
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Yah I know. It how I viewed GIF files in Windows 2000 Pro. But at this point in time I shouldn't need to open a browser window just to preview something.
 
SiliconAddict said:
Yah I know. It how I viewed GIF files in Windows 2000 Pro. But at this point in time I shouldn't need to open a browser window just to preview something.
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You're right, especially considering that Panther's preview could play animated GIFs...
 
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