Importing from preview

Overall I love Photos over iPhoto but one bug is messing up my work flow. I get pictures sent to me and I like to use the "share" icon (box with an arrow facing up) to send to Photos. It worked great in iPhoto. but nothing happens when i try to send photos via that action in Preview. So i have to save the file to the desktop then drag it in that way. HELP!!!!

Hi.
Photos is set to be the main app. I'm on a fresh install of Yosemite 10.10.3. iPhoto has never been installed. The old behaviour when I did this with iPhoto was the app would open if not already and that photo would show up in Last Import section. It doesn't work with Preview and Photos for me. Seems like a bug. Plugging in cameras and iCloud Stream works just not this.

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Sorry but I do not understand your question
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Cool this is good, 1 you can still access images and two you have identified Aperture as being the issue. The next step is to do some basic maintenance on your system, have a read of the Aperture 3: Troubleshooting Basics at the following link.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3805
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If Text Tool can be used on a Preview scanned document…How ? Please!

After further research I have been able to answer my own question regarding-
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OS X Yosemite 10.10.2
iMac 20" Mid 2007
2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
4 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM
Canon Pixma MX470
For some reason I can no longer Import from my scanner in Preview. As you can see below, the menu option is greyed out.
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Ha!
I fixed it.
Here's what I did:
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-Go to Preview, menu File > Import from HP Officejet 6700... and test. Success!
Of course I don't know which of these things made the difference, but it worked for me.
Cheers,
b

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Hello!
I have a problem.
I'll try to explain it toy you.
I have a SapScript that the user has the option to send it to the printer or have a Print Preview. I need to send it by mail in PDF format.
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I tried to do search here, but I couldn't find anything that may help me..
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Part 3
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First my configuration
I am running SQL Developer ver 1.5.5 Build MAIN-5969
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Becky,
I can not thank you enough... It worked ! The facebook additional function will be nice to try out as well.
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