When you click on the PDF in the Spotlight results, it opens up in Preview with the search term highlighted throughout the document. You will need to quit and reopen Preview for changes to take effect.ĩ.

The number at the end is the font size (replace with 13 to return to normal). To change the size, type defaults write NSSystemFontSize -int 9 into the Terminal (in Applications/Utilities) and press return. The text is fixed to the System Font, which is Lucida Grande, size 13. You can have a red oval or a yellow text box. The annotate tool is available when viewing PDFs. Pressing A and F will toggle between actual size and fit to screen. You can still get its functionality using keyboard shortcuts: Space will Play/Pause and the Left and Right arrows scroll through pages. Now the toolbar will stay hidden until you next click. To prevent this, double-click anywhere (but not on the toolbar). When viewing PDFs fullscreen using the slideshow option in the View menu (Command-Shift-F), the toolbar appears at the bottom whenever you move the mouse.

Additionally, if you Space-Command-click you will zoom in, and if you Space-Command-Option-click you will zoom out. To use the scroll tool with other formats, hold the Space bar before dragging an image. Unfortunately, this tool is greyed out when viewing anything but PDFs. This allows you to drag the images about with a hand rather than using the scroll bars.

When viewing PDF files, you can access the scroll tool through the View menu. If you are adventurous, have a go at doing this with an application (they are just disguised folders anyway). If you do this with your Pictures folder for example, it will open your entire iPhoto Library. Be careful when doing this with a folder with lots of images in.

You will have to hold Command-Option while dragging onto the icon to force Preview to accept it. If you Option-Click rotate, only the page you are currently viewing will be rotated.ĭragging a folder onto Preview's icon will cause it to open up every image in the folder. When you click rotate, it will rotate every page in the PDF document. To add them, Command-Option-click the Show/Hide toolbar button to bring up the Customise toolbar options. By default, the rotate buttons don't appear in the toolbar when viewing PDFs.

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