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From EPS to PDF in No Time Flat
This trick is pretty much just for graphic designers who work with EPS images from applications like Adobe illustrator, CorelDraw for Mac, Freehand, and Photoshop. If you want to convert your EPS image instantly into a PDF (ideal for emailing), just drag it onto Apple’s Preview application icon in your dock (or in your Applications folder) [...]
Continue reading...Converting to TIFF, JPG, or Photoshop
14. September 2009
Want to change most any graphic into a Photoshop file? Just open the file in Preview, go under the File menu, and choose “Save As…,” where you can export your graphic in Photoshop format. But you’re not limited to Photoshop format - Preview will also export your file as a JPEG, PICT, BMP (for sharing files with [...]
Continue reading...Assigning Color Profiles
19. August 2009
Preview lets you color manage photos. You can assign an ICC color profile for any open JPEG or TIFF image by going under the Tools menu and choosing “Assign Profile.” This brings up a dialog with a pop-up menu of available color profiles. To assign a specific profile, just choose it from the pop-up menu, [...]
Continue reading...Giving Your Photos Keywords
3. August 2009
If you’re using Preview to sort your digital camera images, here is a helpful feature — the ability to add keywords to your photos. These keywords will even show up in Spotlight, so if you want to search your hard disk for images using keywords, you can. Here’s how it works. When you have an image onscreen [...]
Continue reading...Change Format
24. July 2009
If you want to change the format of almost any graphic, drop it on the icon of Preview in the Dock. Pull down Preview’s File menu to “Save As” and you’ll see options to change the format to TIFF, JPEG, Photoshop, and several others. Various other options will appear below the Format: item, depending on [...]
Continue reading...Annotating PDFs in Preview
30. June 2009
You may already know that Preview is a terrific application for viewing PDF files. But did you realize it’s also great for annotating PDFs? It’s a fast and efficient way to share comments when collaborating on group projects. Under Preview’s Tools menu, you’ll find the options “Mark Up” and “Annotate.” Mark Up lets you highlight, strike [...]
Continue reading...Hidden Sorting Options
22. May 2009
When you open multiple images in Preview, they appear in the Drawer. You can sort them manually by dragging them up and down the list, but there’s another way — if you Control/click on one of the images in the Drawer, a contextual menu will appear, and you can then sort by name, size, keyword, [...]
Continue reading...How to Empty Trash Without Preview Blocking Your Files
1. May 2009
If you open a file in Preview, you may have noticed that Preview marks that file as in-use until you close the application. So you could literally have opened something days ago, and if you haven’t closed Preview, it’s still laying claim to that file. If you want to delete the file, it can be a [...]
Continue reading...Preview: Amazing Image Editor
4. April 2009
I’ve just discovered something cool about Preview in Leopard. (Yes, you probably know this already, but as a good Photoshop boy, I hadn’t even explored properly.) As well as the cool “Instant Alpha” feature that we saw in iWork ‘08, there’s a pretty meaty “Extract” command too; you simply draw round the part of an image [...]
Continue reading...Converting Image File Formats with Preview
2. June 2008
Preview is one of the great, bundled applications built into Mac OS X. It’s an application I use daily. On most Macs, Preview is the default image and PDF viewer. Preview gives Mac OS X the ability to open a wide variety of image files straight out of the box (listed below), and it also [...]
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If you prefer a display with antiglare coating for a matte rather than glossy viewing experience, an antiglare display is now available as a configure-to-order option on all 15-inch MacBook Pro models. This display has a silver aluminum bezel, which is the same as the 17-inch antiglare MacBook Pro display.Google CEO Schmidt leaves Apple board
In a statement, Apple CEO Steve Jobs cited potential conflicts of interest in explaining Schmidt’s resignation.
“Eric’s effectiveness as an Apple board member will be significantly diminished, since he will have to recuse himself from even larger portions of our meetings,” he said.
Apple is racing to offer a portable tablet-sized computer in time for the Christmas shopping season, in what the entertainment industry hopes will be a new revolution.
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22. September 2009
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