Preview?!?!!?

[ChiNNeSSeeBoy94]

hey everyone im new to the "mac world" just got an iMac today, and on the dock theres an app called preview. i have no idea what it does. i clicked on it, try to research about it but in all iono wat it is. can anyone here tell me? thanks in advance.

 

[jmann]

It lets you view/do simple edits on images. To do a quick preview of a file or photo etc all you have to do click on the image/icon and press the "space bar".

 

[spinnerlys]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preview_(software)
It's an application for preview-ing images and PDF files.
You can even annotate PDFs with it, and as the poster before already said, do some simple image manipulation.

 

[thegoldenmackid]

Great little app from Apple, more expansive app for PDF's called Skim, it's also free.

 

[sammy2066]

I still don't know why a simple feature of scrolling through all images in a folder is missing in Preview. How hard could it be?

And before some smart prick tells me I can select all files and open them and then scroll through them, no thank you, I don't wanna do that.

 

[LizKat]

So is that a pre-insult or just a caress.

 

[sammich]

I still don't know why a simple feature of scrolling through all images in a folder is missing in Preview. How hard could it be?

And before some smart prick tells me I can select all files and open them and then scroll through them, no thank you, I don't wanna do that.

Quicklook, or coverflow.

Preview is an application. Not a part of the Finder.

 

[GreatDrok]

I still don't know why a simple feature of scrolling through all images in a folder is missing in Preview. How hard could it be?

And before some smart prick tells me I can select all files and open them and then scroll through them, no thank you, I don't wanna do that.

Finder provides this feature. Coverflow and hit space on images you want to see. No reason to add it to Preview as that is duplicating functionality.

 

[ChiNNeSSeeBoy94]

thanks for all the quick responses

 

[sammy2066]

All valid responses, but resizing cover flow is a pain. Windows has a much better implementation of this.

 

[miles01110]

I still don't know why a simple feature of scrolling through all images in a folder is missing in Preview. How hard could it be?

And before some smart prick tells me I can select all files and open them and then scroll through them, no thank you, I don't wanna do that.

You contradict yourself. This feature is not missing, the implementation of it is just different than in Windows. Who's the prick?

All valid responses, but resizing cover flow is a pain. Windows has a much better implementation of this.

Then use Windows.