Activating Toolbars in Preview PDF view

By default the Acrobat toolbars are disabled in the Preview PDF view. How do I turn the toolbars on?
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Thanks for the reply, radzmar. The Esc key doesn't show the toolbars for me, though.
In Designer 7 there was a button to click to show the toolbars but I can't find it's equivalent in 8.2.

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louisefromvic wrote:
can you please tell me how do I find the file information on a document I have open in preview.
I cant work out how to see the path??
One way to see the path is to press the command key and click on the title of the Preview window. You will get a display of folders corresponding to the path to the file. If you click on the entry just below the title it will open the enclosing folder and show you the file in the Finder.
and there doesnt seem to be a 'get info' or "show file in finder option" ?
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Once you have the folder selected in its folder (from the previous step) inside the Finder (not Preview), you can do the Get info thing.
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can you please tell me how do I find the file information on a document I have open in preview.
I cant work out how to see the path??
and there doesnt seem to be a 'get info' or "show file in finder option" ?
thanks

louisefromvic wrote:
can you please tell me how do I find the file information on a document I have open in preview.
I cant work out how to see the path??
One way to see the path is to press the command key and click on the title of the Preview window. You will get a display of folders corresponding to the path to the file. If you click on the entry just below the title it will open the enclosing folder and show you the file in the Finder.
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I want to uninstall Acrobat reader. I got support in the community to access my HD and to send to trash the internet plugs in for PDF viewer, but when I try to download a PDF from internet a black screen appears and preview doesn't open

I want to uninstall Acrobat reader. I got support in the community to access my HD and to send to trash the internet plugs in for PDF viewer, but when I try to download a PDF from internet a black screen appears and preview doesn't open

Back up all data.
Triple-click the line of text below to select it, the copy the selected text to the Clipboard (command-C):
/Library/Internet Plug-ins
In the Finder, select
Go ▹ Go to Folder
from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-G. Paste into the text box that opens (command-V), then press return.
From the folder that opens, remove any items that have the letters “PDF” in the name. You may be prompted for your login password. Then quit and relaunch Safari, and test.
The "Silverlight" web plugin distributed by Microsoft can also interfere with PDF display in Safari, so you may need to remove it as well, if it's present.
If you still have the issue, repeat with this line:
~/Library/Internet Plug-ins
If you don’t like the results of this procedure, restore the items from the backup you made before you started. Relaunch Safari again.

How do I change my default pdf viewer back to preview?

When I installed Adobe CS onto my computer I set the default pdf viewer to be Adobe Acrobat. Id like to change it back to using preview since it opens much quicker but I cant seem to find where to change the setting. Can someone help?

Via the Finder select a PDF document and use Get Info for the file.
At Open With, select the Preview application via the pop-up window.
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look in HD/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/ & move/trash the Adobe PDF viewer plugin; restart any browsers & things should behave again.

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I would like to have the option to view the 1st page of my pdf next to the second page - not on its own (eg currently, for a 5 page document, mine only shows up as page 1, then p2+3, then P4+5. I would like it to show up at p1+2, then P3+4 then P5, etc. I know how to click between 1 page, and 2 pages and 2 pages continuous, but the 1st page is always on its own for all options.....I understand that in Adobe, you can set preferences for page set ups for viewing your pdf, which includes showig the 1st page with the next one:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Acrobat/9.0/Standard/WS58a04a822e3e50102bd6151097941 95ff-7faf.w.html
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Any help appreciated.

Hi,
In Preview's View Menu there is PDF display.
The Two Pages option places two pages side by side.
However I have found it is not consistent with different PDFs.
(I also set the Preferences to 50% for PDF display)
Example
It seems to works once you are past the first page (Although I do have a 2 page document where it does not work).
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Message was edited by: Ralph Johns (UK)

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I've never noticed the Ctrl+Shift variants. Are these a UI convention on Linux?
I'm not sure how to submit a suggestion for the PDF viewer. Fixing the Ctrl+ variants was done in the underlying project, which has an issues list here: [https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js/issues]. But it might be that Mozilla can plug the gap until that gets addressed there.
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Set preview as default PDF viewer

Hello,
I downloaded the update for Adobe Reader and during installation, it over-rode my choice to use Preview as my default PDF viewer in Safari. I've searched high and low and tried to change this from both Safari's preferences and Adobe Reader's preferences. Unfortunately, the section to "click" in Adobe is grayed out and will not allow me to deselect it. I also tried uninstalling Adobe Reader, but that just caused Safari to not open any PDF documents.
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Restoring Preview as default pdf viewer in Safari

Hi,
I mistakenly set Acrobat 7 as my default pdf viewer in Safari and now cannot change back to preview. I tried to click on a pdf doc and set preview as the default, but that doesn't work for pdf files that I need to download.
I reset Safari, and now it no longer asks me to choose an Acrobat to use, but will not display the download, most likely because it is trying to use Acrobat 5.0 that is installed and is incompatable with Safari.
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Tuttle,
THANK YOU!!!!!!
I was going crazy trying to figure that out. Most of my pdfs (scientific papers)don't print well from Adobe. I have a LaserWriter 4/600 PS that I hooked up to my Airport Express via a crossover ethernet/Farallon system.
I'm writing a paper and really need to be able to do this.
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Quit Safari.
Open the Finder. From the Finder menu bar click Go > Go to Folder
Type of copy / paste: /Library/Internet Plug-Ins
Click Go then move the Adobe PDF Browser plugin from the Internet Plug-Ins folder to the Trash.
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melanie475689 wrote:
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