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Open the folder you want to turn column previews off for, then pull down the 'View' menu and select 'View Options' again if it was closed already from the prior tip. Uncheck 'Show preview column' to disable the preview pane. Optionally, check the box for 'Always open in column view' to be sure the settings stay put. Preview is the default PDF and image viewer in OS X, but many users never get further than that. While Preview is certainly a great app for browsing images, it's also got a lot of options for editing and refining images, too. We'll take a look at some of the often overlooked tools inside Preview and walk through each of them individually. One of the things I always backup when re-formatting a Mac are the digital signatures I have saved in Preview. Speed demon (brendan a.) mac os. For this, my go-to reference used to be here: Can I export my signature from Preview on one Mac and import it on another? But OS X 10.10 (Yosemite) seems to be doing things a little different.

Many Unix commands include relatively detailed manuals. You access these manuals using the man command, as in man cp or man ls. For simple Unix commands, reading man pages in Terminal is fine. But for anything even slightly long—or especially for something gargantuan like man bash —I find Preview to be a much better solution. You can search for words, easily scan backwards and forwards, save the whole thing as a PDF for future reference, change the zoom level of the document, and so much more. But how do you get a Unix man page into Preview? Back in the April 2004 issue of Macworld, we ran a tip in the Mac OS X Hints column that did just that. Given how useful this hint is, it's become a routine part of my workflow whenever I need to view a man page.

In those pre-OS X 10.4 days, this required exporting the contents of (and then processing) the man page to a temporary file, then opening that temporary file in Preview. With the release of Tiger, however, the process became much simpler. So I thought I'd revisit that tip, as well as provide a very rudimentary introduction to how a profile file works in the bash shell (the default in 10.4). (If you're still using 10.3, you'll need to use the old solution, as detailed in this hint on macosxhints.com.)

In order to use this tip in the bash shell, you'll need to create a function in a special file in your user's Home directory—that's the directory where you'll find Documents, Movies, Pictures, etc. The special file is named .profile, and anything within it will be executed whenever you open a new Terminal window. Since its name begins with a period, it will be invisible in the Finder, though you'll be able to see it using ls -a in Terminal. You should be able to create the file with pretty much any text editor, though you'll probably get a warning when you try to save it under the name .profile. If you do, just acknowledge the warning and save the file anyway. (Note that future editing of this file may be a bit trickier, as your editor may or may not be able to show invisible files in the Open dialog. If that's the case, you'll have to use Terminal to open it— open -e .testfile will open it in TextEdit, for example.)

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For today's hint, I'll assume you're using whatever GUI text editor you're most comfortable with, though this can obviously be done from Terminal using vi or nano, etc.; just make sure you create the file at the top level of your Users folder. In your editor of choice, open a new blank document and insert this code:

Note that there's a chance you may already have a .profile file—if that's the case, then add these lines as new; don't replace any existing lines.

The first line, pman, is the name of the command as you'll type it to use this hint. Feel free to change it to whatever you like—shorter is better, as it means less typing. To make sure you don't use a name of an already-existing command, open Terminal and try typing the name you'd like to use, followed by —help. The response you want to see is command not found. If you don't see that, try another name. Once you've found a name you like, save your edited file with the name .profile in the top level of your Users folder.

That's it; you're done. Here's what the command you just created looks like in action:

So how does this nifty command work? Well, the remainder of the lines after pman are the function that does the actual work of displaying the man pages in Preview. The open-curly-bracket marks the start of the code itself, which works like this:

1. man -t '${1}': This bit calls the man application to display the page for the command you've asked about. The '${1}' section represents the command in question. That code tells the shell to substitute the first word you typed after pman into the command. The -t option formats the man page into PostScript.
2. |: This is a pipe symbol, which passes the results of the command to the left of the pipe (in this case, a PostScript formatted man page) to the command on the right, which is…
3. open -f -a /Applications/Preview.app/: The open -f accepts the input from the previous man command. The -a /Applications/Preview.app section tells open which program to use to do the opening.

The real tool to thank here is 10.4's Preview, which gained the ability to read PostScript and convert it on the fly into a standard PDF document. Once the document is opened in Preview, you can do whatever you like with it—save it somewhere, print it, or just read it, find what you need, then close it—the document is created in memory only, so you don't need to worry about leaving behind files that require later clean up.

Putting it to the test

To test your new function, open a new Terminal window, and then type pman bash (or any other command you're interested in seeing). The bash manual is fairly sizable, so depending on the speed of your machine, you may have to wait 10 seconds or so as the command does its thing. But when it's done, you'll see Preview open, showing the full 60-page manual.

Enjoy your newly-formatted and easy-to-read man pages!

Preview is the vendor-supplied image viewer and PDF viewer of the macOS operating system. In addition to viewing and printing digital images and Portable Document Format (PDF) files, it can also edit these media types. It employs the Aqua graphical user interface, the Quartz graphics layer, and the ImageIO and Core Image frameworks.

History[edit]

Like macOS, Preview originated in the NeXTSTEP operating system by NeXT,^[1][2] where it was part of every release since 1989.

Supported file types[edit]

Little red and professor wolf mac os. Preview can open the following file types:

• AI – Adobe Illustrator Artwork files (if PDF content included in file)
• BMP – Windows Bitmap files
• CR2 – RAW Image file used by Canon Cameras
• DAE – Collada 3D files
• DNG – Digital Negative files
• EPS – Encapsulated PostScript files (after an automatic conversion to PDF)
• FAX – faxes
• FPX – FlashPix files
• GIF – Graphics Interchange Format files
• HDR – High-Dynamic-Range Image files
• ICNS – Apple Icon Image files
• ICO – Windows icon files
• JPEG – Joint Photographic Experts Group files
• JPEG 2000 – JPEG 2000 files
• OBJ – Wavefront 3D file
• OpenEXR – OpenEXR files
• PDF – Portable Document Format version 1.5 + some additional features
• PICT – QuickDraw image files
• PNG – Portable Network Graphics files
• PPM – Netpbm Color Image files
• PNTG – MacPaint Bitmap Graphic files
• PPT – PowerPoint files
• PS – Adobe PostScript files (after an automatic conversion to PDF)
• PSD – Adobe Photoshop files
• QTIF – QuickTime image files
• RAD – Radiance 3D Scene Description files
• RAW – Raw image files
• SGI – Silicon Graphics Image files
• STL – STereoLithography 3D format
• TGA – TARGA image files
• TIF (TIFF) – Tagged Image File Format files
• XBM – X BitMap files

So how does this nifty command work? Well, the remainder of the lines after pman are the function that does the actual work of displaying the man pages in Preview. The open-curly-bracket marks the start of the code itself, which works like this:

1. man -t '${1}': This bit calls the man application to display the page for the command you've asked about. The '${1}' section represents the command in question. That code tells the shell to substitute the first word you typed after pman into the command. The -t option formats the man page into PostScript.
2. |: This is a pipe symbol, which passes the results of the command to the left of the pipe (in this case, a PostScript formatted man page) to the command on the right, which is…
3. open -f -a /Applications/Preview.app/: The open -f accepts the input from the previous man command. The -a /Applications/Preview.app section tells open which program to use to do the opening.

The real tool to thank here is 10.4's Preview, which gained the ability to read PostScript and convert it on the fly into a standard PDF document. Once the document is opened in Preview, you can do whatever you like with it—save it somewhere, print it, or just read it, find what you need, then close it—the document is created in memory only, so you don't need to worry about leaving behind files that require later clean up.

Putting it to the test

To test your new function, open a new Terminal window, and then type pman bash (or any other command you're interested in seeing). The bash manual is fairly sizable, so depending on the speed of your machine, you may have to wait 10 seconds or so as the command does its thing. But when it's done, you'll see Preview open, showing the full 60-page manual.

Enjoy your newly-formatted and easy-to-read man pages!

Preview is the vendor-supplied image viewer and PDF viewer of the macOS operating system. In addition to viewing and printing digital images and Portable Document Format (PDF) files, it can also edit these media types. It employs the Aqua graphical user interface, the Quartz graphics layer, and the ImageIO and Core Image frameworks.

History[edit]

Like macOS, Preview originated in the NeXTSTEP operating system by NeXT,^[1][2] where it was part of every release since 1989.

Supported file types[edit]

Little red and professor wolf mac os. Preview can open the following file types:

• AI – Adobe Illustrator Artwork files (if PDF content included in file)
• BMP – Windows Bitmap files
• CR2 – RAW Image file used by Canon Cameras
• DAE – Collada 3D files
• DNG – Digital Negative files
• EPS – Encapsulated PostScript files (after an automatic conversion to PDF)
• FAX – faxes
• FPX – FlashPix files
• GIF – Graphics Interchange Format files
• HDR – High-Dynamic-Range Image files
• ICNS – Apple Icon Image files
• ICO – Windows icon files
• JPEG – Joint Photographic Experts Group files
• JPEG 2000 – JPEG 2000 files
• OBJ – Wavefront 3D file
• OpenEXR – OpenEXR files
• PDF – Portable Document Format version 1.5 + some additional features
• PICT – QuickDraw image files
• PNG – Portable Network Graphics files
• PPM – Netpbm Color Image files
• PNTG – MacPaint Bitmap Graphic files
• PPT – PowerPoint files
• PS – Adobe PostScript files (after an automatic conversion to PDF)
• PSD – Adobe Photoshop files
• QTIF – QuickTime image files
• RAD – Radiance 3D Scene Description files
• RAW – Raw image files
• SGI – Silicon Graphics Image files
• STL – STereoLithography 3D format
• TGA – TARGA image files
• TIF (TIFF) – Tagged Image File Format files
• XBM – X BitMap files

The version of Preview included with OS X 10.3 (Panther) could play animated GIF images, for which an optional button could be added to the toolbar. As of OS X 10.4 (Tiger), Preview lost playback functionality and animated GIF files are displayed as individual frames in a numbered sequence.^[3][4]

Features[edit]

Editing PDF documents[edit]

Preview can encrypt PDF documents, and restrict their use; for example, it is possible to save an encrypted PDF so that a password is required to copy data from the document, or to print it. However, encrypted PDFs cannot be edited further, so the original author should always keep an unencrypted version.

Some features which are otherwise only available in professional PDF editing software are provided by Preview: It is possible to extract single pages out of multi-page documents (e.g. PDF files), sort pages, and drag & drop single or multiple pages between several opened multi-page documents, or into other applications, such as attaching to an opened email message.

Editing images[edit]

Preview offers basic image correction tools using Core Image processing technology implemented in macOS, and other features like shape extraction, color extraction, cropping, and rotation tools. When annotating images, Preview uses vector shapes and text until the image is rasterized to JPEG, PNG or another bitmap format. PDF and image documents can also be supplied with keywords, and are then automatically indexed using macOS's system-wide Spotlight search engine.

Import and export[edit]

Preview can directly access image scanners supported by macOS and import images from the scanner. Preview can convert between image formats; it can export to BMP, JP2, JPEG, PDF, PICT, PNG, SGI, TGA, and TIFF. Using macOS's print engine (based on CUPS) it is also possible to 'print into' a Postscript file, a PDF-X file or directly save the file in iPhoto, for example scanned photos.

Save the pork! mac os. Beginning with Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, Preview restricts the Format option popup menu in the Save As dialog to commonly used types. It is possible to access the full format list by holding down the Option key when clicking the Format popup menu.^[5] (GIF, ICNS, JPEG, JPEG-2000, Microsoft BMP, Microsoft Icon, OpenEXR, PDF, Photoshop, PNG, SGI, TGA, TIFF)

New features in Version 7[edit]

A new 'edit button' where the picture can be edited is introduced in Version 7. The 'edit button' allows options to insert shapes, lines, do cropping, and among other things.

Issues[edit]

As of OS X 10.9.2, Preview does not support ISO-standardized PDF (ISO 32000), and when saving, destroys aspects of PDF files without warning to the user.^{[6][needs update]}

See also[edit]

References[edit]

Possession Preview Mac Os X

1. ^NeXTSTEP promotional brochure from 1995.
2. ^'The many superpowers of Apple's Preview app: Part 1'. Macworld. Retrieved 2017-11-18.
3. ^Use Preview to play animated GIFs
4. ^Preview for Mac: View animated GIF files in Preview
5. ^'Convert Images in Mac OS X: JPG to GIF, PSD to JPG, GIF to JPG, BMP to JPG, PNG to PDF, and more'. OS X Daily. 2010-01-24. Retrieved 2017-01-08.
6. ^Johnson, Duff (7 April 2014). 'Apple's Preview: Still not safe for work'. Duff Johnson Strategy & Communications. Retrieved 18 July 2020.

External links[edit]

• AppleInsider review from 2003
• MacProNews article: PDF and Panther: The Hidden Role of PDF in Mac OS X 10.3 from July 2004
• Sams Publishing sample chapter on Preview from Mac OS X Panther Applications and Utilities. Includes some instructions for use, with screenshots.