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Tired of Mac Preview always showing the Sidebar?

Skim | Home. I was too, and couldn’t find any way to change that behavior. So I investigated and discovered that Skim is a light-weight PDF viewer that will remember your preferences. The webpage says it is designed to help you read and annotate scientific papers in PDF but it is fantastic for viewing PDF files. I have no reason to install reader anymore.

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removing all annotations in preview for sharing

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Image by Adam Kuban via Flickr

As TeenTitan said:

If your using preview. You can actually pull up a list of all Annotations. Using this list you can select all the Annotations and then delete all the annotations at the same time.

How to do this:
in preview, with your PDF open.
go to the menu bar
click on the “View” menu
from the “view menu” chose “SideBar.”
from the submenu “SideBar” chose “Annotations”
On the right side of the PDF, Instead of a list of page you should now have a list of “Annotations.” click on any of the Annotations listed.
go to the menu bar
click on the “Edit” menu
choose “Select All”
Press the “delete” key

At this point you could use Save As to re-save the file as the ‘share friendly” version of the PDF.

via Apple – Support – Discussions – removing all annotations in preview for ….

 

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Two ways to convert .pages to word.

Method 1:  Thanks Jacko30!

If you rename the pages file to zip and open it, the is a pdf in there. in the quicklook folder.

via convert pages to word – MacTalk Forums.

Method 2:

http://forums.macnn.com/82/applications/381956/group-convert-pages-docs-ms-word/#post3766150

Code:
on open theDocuments repeat with aDocument in theDocuments tell application "Pages" open aDocument set thePath to the path of the front document set theWordPath to thePath & ".doc" save the front document as {"doc", "SLDocumentTypeMSWord"} in theWordPath close the front document saving no end tell end repeat end open

 

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