Editing pdf files in Preview painfully SLOW with mavericks! Why? How to fix?

Editing pdf files in Preview is painfully SLOW with Mavericks! With mountain lion everything was so smooth .... Why? How can I fix this?

I stopped using preview. Adobe Acrobat Pro is running fine ... this is not a solution to the problem though. The question remains open: why is preview not running as before?
Why did I upgrade?!

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I opened a 5 page page pdf file on preview and just wanted to save the last page and delet the others. When I am done, I am not able to save, or save as or cancel. When I click on save as a page for save as came on but disapeared without i could change the folder name and then it frooze.
Thanks for your help.

First, you need an app capable of reading PDFs but that's not the issue you should be addressing. You cannot upload PDFs to job sites using Safari. Safari allow this ONLY for videos and pictures.
To do what you're asking, others have suggested using an alternative iOS browser called iCab Mobile or iUploader (iTunes links). Both should help you.

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Thanks Robinson3 !
The most economical solution.
Not only worked for PDF files but also for other similar problem.
Of all offered solutions this looks the most bang on.
Hope, the problem will not return (but even if it returns the solution
is so fast and simple).
I did exactly the following (all steps included) :
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>Associated File Type, and choose "Adobe PDF reader"

Safari painfully slow with Maverick

Safari is so slow since I installed Maverick; I don't get it. I installed Chrome which does not seem to suffer from the same problem.
Am I the only one?
I tried to reset Safari ans clean up all history and remove all cookies: there is no difference.
Any other suggestion?
Thanks,
--JM

*Note be sure to read everything first and ask questions if you don't understand something.
Here is what I did to get Safari running 100%. Let me start by saying that some of these steps are somewhat advance and if you don't follow directions well you can break something. I essentially removed all 3rd party plugins and reinstalled them after.
First User Specific Plugins (If you are only having this issue with one user this alone should resolve your problem):
Create a folder on the desktop call it Safari Plugins User this will be used to backup the plugins that are user specific.
Finder > Go > Hold the Option Key > Select Library
Then open Internet Plug-ins > Move any plugins found in there to the folder you created on the desktop for Safari Plugins User. (If this folder is empty then move to the System Wide Plugins).
Then System Wide Plugins (These affect every user, if you created a new test account or tried guest but still having issue with Safari this is a good idea):
Create a folder on the desktop call it Safari Plugins System this will be used to backup the plugins that affect all users.
Make sure you Quit Safari don't just close the Window.
Finder > Go > Computer > Machintosh HD (or whatever you named your startup disk) > Library > Internet Plug-Ins > You can move all of the plugins to the folder previously created on the desktop
Open Safari and see how it behaves if it works good then Quit Safari and move half of the plugins back > Reopen Safari and see if still OK if it is then move acouple more plugins back until you find the one(s) causing issue and reinstall them if applicable.
*Note personally I only moved Default Browser.plugin, Quartz Composer.webplugin and QuickTime Plugin.plugin. Adobe Flash was installed fresh, Flip4Mac was reinstalled fresh and Silverlight was reinstalled fresh.

HT2506 hi i can't seem to copy and paste pdf files from preview to a microsoft word document. it always comes up with nonsense characters in the word document. how do i fix this? thanks in advance

hi i can't seem to copy and paste pdf files from preview to a microsoft word document. it always comes up with nonsense characters in the word document. how do i fix this? thanks in advance

Hi,
The quickest way to do this (tested with OS 10.8.2, MS Word 2011) is in one line:
tell application "Microsoft Word" to close every document whose name begins with "book"
The reason why your script doesn't work is that you aren't specifying to Word which document you want it to close.
So, changing one line ought to do it:
close document incrementvalue -- instead of "close document"
But... when you close a document, you change the document count. Document 2 becomes document 1, document 3 becomes document 2 etc. So eventually you'd get a message saying "The object you are trying to access doesn't exist".
Because of this, if you want to do it in a repeat loop, you have to work backwards:
tell application "Microsoft Word"
set doc_count to count documents
repeat with x from doc_count to 1 by -1
if name of document x begins with "book" then close document x
end repeat
end tell
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If you actually want to modify text or images in PDF or create PDFs from Word or Excel files, etc., you need Acrobat XI Pro or Standard (paid product).
The following page shows the product comparison for Acrobat/Reader XI for desktop.
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/product-comparison.html
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Using Oracle "Import PDF" Extension in Open Office Draw to Edit pdf Files

I am a fairly new Mac user with OS X 10.6. For several months, I have been trying to find something which would edit pdf files better than Preview does (for example, the content of a text box in Preview can only be "center aligned"). Skim and FormulatePro were two options I tried that were improvements over Preview in many respects, but wouldn't let me paste an image onto my pdf (such as, for example, if I wanted to put my digital signature on a document).
Then, I "discovered" the Oracle PDF Import Extension which I had installed in Open Office months ago, but hadn't really used. By "discovered," I mean I read on somebody's blog that you could use Open Office Draw to edit pdf files and I thought, "Hey, I wonder if that would work with my setup." (Boy, do I feel stupid.)
I have just started using this functionality, but in just an hour or so of playing around, I have found that it has far exceeded my expectations and, even, my immediate needs. Besides giving you (a) all the control over text and text boxes that you would expect from, say, a word processing program and (b) allowing you to paste images onto your pdf, Open Office Draw also includes layers!
The layer function threw me off for a bit, because, at first, I kept finding that my attempts to edit the document resulted in grabbing the raster image and moving it "off" of the underlying text layer (a function, I will admit, that I think will be worth exploiting someday, but wasn't what I was looking for at the moment). Then, I discovered that you can "lock" the layer so as to prevent this annoying occurrence. To create your edits, simply create a new layer (call it "MyEdits" or whatever you want) and you're in business.
Anybody who has done anything more than drawn a couple of lines and boxes on a page has discovered that editing the overlapping objects can be a real pain - if not an outright impossibility. Separating these overlapping objects through the use of different layers solves the problem.
The only downside to the use of Open Office Draw as a pdf editing tool that I can see is that you must import the pdf, save your edits in odg format, and then export it to pdf when you're done. I know that we would all like to have the capability of doing everything I just described directly to the native document, but, hey, for all the functionality I have been searching the internet for weeks to find, I think it's a reasonable trade off.

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Automatically bring up pdf files in Preview (or at least Safari)

Ideally, I would like the ability to click on a pdf file in Safari and have it automatically bring it up in Preview. I believe you need a plug-in for that and it looks like that doesn't exist (or does it). Assuming that's the case, I would settle for bringing up the pdf in Safari and then doing a ctrl-click to open with Preview. Right now opening a pdf in Safari opens a separate little window which takes more than a few seconds. It used to open up in Safari, but in all my messing around trying to figure this out, that stopped working and I can't figure out how to make it do that again.
Here's my situation and what I've tried so far. First, I have an Intel Mac and don't want to run under Rosetta for performance reasons (things take twice as long!), so Adobe, Shubert's plug-ins, etc. won't work. Adobe is too slow anyways, but I kinda like Shubert's. I've set my default pdf reader for all pdf files to Preview. I've tried turning Adobe's option to use it as the default browser plug-in on and off. I've reinstalled Adobe, removed it and reinstalled it again. I've removed the Adobe plug-in from the Library/Internet Plug-Ins folder and put it back again.
I've tried making this work with every conceivable combination of the above with no luck. Like I said, if I could just get back to having a pdf open in the Safari browser, I could make it work from there to open Preview. But if there's any way to open Preview directly from opening a pdf in Safari, that would be the bomb. Or if anyone knows of any other good pdf browser plug-ins that work with Intel based Macs running safari natively, that would be acceptable too. Spent many hours researching this on the boards as well as trying stuff. Hopefully someone can steer me correctly. Thanks.
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Well Starman, I did everything you said to do to reinstall Safari and it still brings up that separate little window as opposed to bringing up the pdf in the browser. The Software Update didn't do anything after reinstalling Safari, so I reinstalled 10.4.8. Still no luck with the pdf.
One interesting thing I tried is that I set Safari so it would run using Rosetta and then set Adobe Acrobat to use the plug-in. When I brought up a pdf, it used the Adobe plug-in, but it still brought it up in a separate window and not within the browser. When running under Rosetta without the Adobe Plug-In turned on, it brought the pdf up in the separate little window again, but not the Adobe Plug-In - similar to when not running under Rosetta.
Now a few days ago I did download the Shubert Plug-In and turned Rosetta on so I could check it out. It brought up that plug-in in that little window. Now I'm not sure of this, but I think that was the first time that little window came up and I haven't been able to get rid of it since. I trashed the Shubert Plug-In, but could it be possible that something from that is hanging out there causing this problem? Or?

Do you know how to make multible page PDF files in Preview?

MAKE MULTIPLE PDF DOCUMENTS IN PREVIEW
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Drag 2nd, 3rd page into page area
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Save to desktop with new name.
Drag new file to Preview then press share to email
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Go to the Map, Background & Animatic Browser (last button in the centre tool bar alongside the Transition button). Drag the Black background (or any background) to your project. From an Event, drag the video selection directly onto the Black clip in the project. As you drop the video clip, a pop-up menu will appear. Select Picture in Picture.
Your video will appear as a small picture within the black clip. Click on it and reposition it to the centre of the viewer, using the yellow guide lines to get the exact centre position. Resize the Picture in Picture if desired by dragging the corner handles.
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John
Message was edited by: John Cogdell - added NOTE

Mark up and edit PDF files?

You advertised to me that you could provide a product that enabled one to mark up and edit PDF files. I spent hours trying to download it, install it and run it, hours and hours and hours of bitter frustration. Time and time again I had to agree to this, register that, click on this, scroll down to find that, install something, else, update something else, wait for this to run, wait again for the next thing to run, and then find something else in a something file, close this, open that, stop this, tell us what f===ing browser your'e using (Chrome) start that, verify this, confirm that, choose a f==== password, choose another f===== password because that one is not right, choose yet another f=====g password because it's the wrong shade of pink, choose a f======= userrname, and in the end, nothing worked, Nothing changed, I still cannot edit or mark up any Adobe Acrobat files. Every time you open a file like this it pesters you to download updates and this is just a f====== nightrmare, I have wasted hours when I could have been working and your product did not work or make any difference. I still don't know if you have to pay but if you do I resent you hiding that until the end. I accepted a supposedly free 30-day trial but that is not enough time to get the f====== product to download install and work.
Why did you advertise this?
You started this situation by advertising a product and sending a pop-up. All it caused was huge waste of my time and effort.
You are like a girl who stands on a street corner saying "Wanna hooker?" then when someone says "Yes" he is expected to produce his birth certificate, passport, health insurance card, Green card, national insurance card, baptismal certificate, take her out to dinner, take her out to dinner again because that wasnn't good enough, register his name and credit card details, undergo an international credit check , choose five f===== passwiords, undergo a DNA test and marry her grandmother. Then she says "I've got a headache."
It;s just not f=====ing worth it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well we have no idea what you tried to do to install the trial version. There may have been a fundamental error in your process, but unless you let us know what was happening, we can't help. As for Adobe, we don't try to defend them, but try to provide help where we can.
Sorry you ran into frustration. The package does a lot of things, but for you the trial would have been ideal to see what worked like you expected and what did not. A lot of people expect all sorts of things out of Acrobat that are not possible, thinking it is like a word processor. It is not like that, but a PDF is more like an electronic version of a piece of paper. Modifications are typically a pain, just as it is with paper.
Over the years a lot of features have been added. The markup is OK, but some of the functions continue to be clunky. The forms is a major contribution to a standard PDF. The OCR feature is useful for scanned files. So there are many features. Reader is basically that, a Reader. It generally allows the completion of forms and possibly submission electronically (depends on the creation process).
If you want to try again (assuming the trial period has not run out), then let us help. When you do the install, you need to be sure you log in as the administrator (on Windows) and disable anti-virus. There may also be an issue of the compatibility of the trial version and your OS (you never mentioned). So there are possible fixes that might be able to help you play with the trial.

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I just signed up for Adobe Standard $89 annually thinking I would be able to edit PDF files is this not the case?

I just signed up for Adobe Standard $89 annually thinking I would be able to edit PDF files. Is this not the case?

if nothing at all has changed, make sure you are actually running Acrobat, not still running Reader. But if you hope for something like Word, it isn't. Editing PDF is a painful last resort.

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