how to set preview options

ngse · 05-08-2004, 04:53 PM

I want to turn off the thumbnails/drawers. The preview preference has an option for antialiasing but not turning off thumbnails.

I also want to make the preview window wider but shorter. After dragging the window to the right size, I closed preview and restart. But it always comes back the default size.

Any suggestion how to make these changes.
thanks in advance

huskerchad · 05-08-2004, 05:22 PM

Under preferences->PDF, you can turn off the drawer except when the PDF has a table of contents (most don't).

I don't think there's an answer for the second question.

ngse · 05-08-2004, 05:27 PM

There appears to be no such option under preference.
I found

Thumbnails
-show image and name
-show image
-show name

Thumbnail size

use anti-aliasing

use DPI for actual size

Nothing else. I have preview 2.01
I looked through other posts before posting, and it seems like others have more options. I have a powerbook running 10.2.6
Is there an upgrade I am missing?
Thanks

huskerchad · 05-08-2004, 06:24 PM

The option I mentioned is on a machine running 10.3 (preview version 2.10).

You could try checking ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.preview.plist to see if there are any hidden keys relating to the drawer that you just can't access from the GUI.

If you really, really never want the drawer, you could open the nib from inside Preview's application bundle in interface builder and delete the drawer. It's possible this could prevent preview from working correctly, so do it on a copy of the application.

improbable · 07-31-2007, 05:35 PM

I found this page googling so I thought I should add what I found:

I would like to disable the drawer entirely in Preview. Above it was suggested that you look for a hidden preference. I tried this, and there doesn't seem to be one.

Pref files are now in a binary format (on 10.4 Tiger) so the command you need is

cd ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.preview.plist
defaults read com.apple.Preview | grep Drawer

which returns this:

"Toggle Drawer Item Identifier"
Drawer
PVNewPDFOpenDrawerForTOC = 1;

The last is certainly the option available in the preferences box for PDF which have a table of contents. The others don't look promising to me. So I gave up.

By the way the manual page for the "defaluts" command is at http://developer.apple.com/documenta...efaults.1.html

05-08-2004, 04:53 PM	#1
ngse Prospect Join Date: Jun 2003 Posts: 19	how to set preview options I want to turn off the thumbnails/drawers. The preview preference has an option for antialiasing but not turning off thumbnails. I also want to make the preview window wider but shorter. After dragging the window to the right size, I closed preview and restart. But it always comes back the default size. Any suggestion how to make these changes. thanks in advance

07-31-2007, 05:35 PM	#5
improbable Registered User Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 1	Trying to disable Preview's drawer, in Tiger I found this page googling so I thought I should add what I found: I would like to disable the drawer entirely in Preview. Above it was suggested that you look for a hidden preference. I tried this, and there doesn't seem to be one. Pref files are now in a binary format (on 10.4 Tiger) so the command you need is cd ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.preview.plist defaults read com.apple.Preview \| grep Drawer which returns this: "Toggle Drawer Item Identifier" Drawer PVNewPDFOpenDrawerForTOC = 1; The last is certainly the option available in the preferences box for PDF which have a table of contents. The others don't look promising to me. So I gave up. By the way the manual page for the "defaluts" command is at http://developer.apple.com/documenta...efaults.1.html

05-08-2004, 05:22 PM	#2
huskerchad Major Leaguer Join Date: Feb 2004 Posts: 278	Under preferences->PDF, you can turn off the drawer except when the PDF has a table of contents (most don't). I don't think there's an answer for the second question.

05-08-2004, 05:27 PM	#3
ngse Prospect Join Date: Jun 2003 Posts: 19	There appears to be no such option under preference. I found Thumbnails -show image and name -show image -show name Thumbnail size use anti-aliasing use DPI for actual size Nothing else. I have preview 2.01 I looked through other posts before posting, and it seems like others have more options. I have a powerbook running 10.2.6 Is there an upgrade I am missing? Thanks

05-08-2004, 06:24 PM	#4
huskerchad Major Leaguer Join Date: Feb 2004 Posts: 278	The option I mentioned is on a machine running 10.3 (preview version 2.10). You could try checking ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.preview.plist to see if there are any hidden keys relating to the drawer that you just can't access from the GUI. If you really, really never want the drawer, you could open the nib from inside Preview's application bundle in interface builder and delete the drawer. It's possible this could prevent preview from working correctly, so do it on a copy of the application.