Preview replacements

I've been searching for a while for a replacement for Preview...that gives me more choices to handle the photo, able to browse the whole album without choosing all the photos...
and I've a question about iPhoto.. can it encrypt photo folders?

You might try GraphicConverter, or Picasa by Google. There are also numerous inexpensive photo browsers and editors available for the Mac, you can search for them at the Mac App Store or at macupdate.com.
iPhoto cannot encrypt photo folders, and I don't think many or any photo programs can. However, you can use Apple Disk Utility to create an encrypted disk image and store your "personal" photos in there.

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Preview is missing fonts??

Hi all.
Sometimes when I open a document in Preview, I get a message like "this document needs such-and-such a font, since it is missing it may not display correctly."
Sometimes I don't get that message, but I see distorted graphics instead of text in areas where (I assume) fonts are missing.
Is there a way to find and install missing fonts?

You could then try to reinstall Preview from the OS X disks. Download Pacifist. Put your OS X install disk in the drive and click the button in Pacifist to "Open Apple Install Disks". Once it's done reading it, or them in, find the Preview application by expanding the folders presented. You are of course looking for the one in the Applications folder.
Highlight the Preview app and click on the Install button at the upper left. Pacifist will extract, verify and install Preview, replacing the old copy on the hard drive. Eject the OS X disk.
Keep Pacifist open and do the same with the 10.5.4 Combo update file. If there's an update to Preview, you'll need to install that, too. It will also appear as Preview.app. When you click the Install button in Pacifist, it will tell you that Preview already exists and give you multiple choices. You want to click the "Update" button.
You can of course get to the same point by performing an Archive and Install, but this will take far less time and only replace the one application.

Preview missing fonts

I noticed that a lot of my fonts are missing from the font list in the tools set on preview for maveriks and yosemity? any body knows why is that? one in particular that i know is missing is a .ttf font, might this be the reason or is it the location of the font (/Users/username/Library/Fonts/Font.TTF)?
It is quite frustrating.

You could then try to reinstall Preview from the OS X disks. Download Pacifist. Put your OS X install disk in the drive and click the button in Pacifist to "Open Apple Install Disks". Once it's done reading it, or them in, find the Preview application by expanding the folders presented. You are of course looking for the one in the Applications folder.
Highlight the Preview app and click on the Install button at the upper left. Pacifist will extract, verify and install Preview, replacing the old copy on the hard drive. Eject the OS X disk.
Keep Pacifist open and do the same with the 10.5.4 Combo update file. If there's an update to Preview, you'll need to install that, too. It will also appear as Preview.app. When you click the Install button in Pacifist, it will tell you that Preview already exists and give you multiple choices. You want to click the "Update" button.
You can of course get to the same point by performing an Archive and Install, but this will take far less time and only replace the one application.

Handling smart/curly quotes in Java

Hi - I want to know how to handle smart / curly quotes in Java. I need to replace them with actual quotes. I was trying somethin like below.
xmlString = xmlString .replaceAll( "", "'" );
but this is not working. Just tried to print indexOf( """) and it only returns -1. I was trying to use the html equiv value inside i.e &#8216(folowed by semicolon. the preview replaces it with actual value)
Pls guide me on this. Its urgent!!
-Thanks,
Magesh
Edited by: magesh_rathnam on Jan 31, 2010 7:09 PM
Edited by: magesh_rathnam on Jan 31, 2010 7:10 PM

I guess not then...
Anyhow try this:
public static String replaceSmartQuotes(String smartQuotedString) {
return smartQuotedString.replaceAll("[]", "\"").replaceAll("[]", "'");
}{code}
Mel

Yoga 11s Recovery DVD

I have a big problem and hope you can help me!
I installed Windows 10 Tecnical Preview on my Yoga 11s for a try, but it's not ok yet.
So, when I tried to restore the factory settings (and Windows 8), I discovery that Windows Technical Preview replaced some
of the files needed for restoration.
I contacted Lenovo assistance from Brazil and they told me they could not send the restore DVD because I bought my Yoga in the USA.
My english is bad, I do not believe I can contact the technical assistance on USA by phone.
Is there any other way to ask then to send me this DVD, or a location where I can download it?
Thanks.

sanz wrote:
I have a big problem and hope you can help me!
I installed Windows 10 Tecnical Preview on my Yoga 11s for a try, but it's not ok yet.
So, when I tried to restore the factory settings (and Windows 8), I discovery that Windows Technical Preview replaced some
of the files needed for restoration.
I contacted Lenovo assistance from Brazil and they told me they could not send the restore DVD because I bought my Yoga in the USA.
My english is bad, I do not believe I can contact the technical assistance on USA by phone.
Is there any other way to ask then to send me this DVD, or a location where I can download it?
Thanks.
You seem to be able to express your self very well by writen means. Asus support has a Chat option where you and Tech Support exchange text messages in real time.
Good luck, Jim

To replace standard smartform by a custom form, to be used in PRINT PREVIEW

Hi,
I have a requirement in CRM 2007 webUI. If we try to create a sales order, then we have a toolbar option button with title "PRINT PREVIEW". It uses the custom smart form "CRM_ORDER_CONFIRMATION_01.
I have to replace this standard form by a Z custom form. This form has soem additional data required for business needs.
Field technical details of the button is :
1. Component Name- BT115H_SLSO
2. View - SOHOverview
3. Context Node - THTMLB
4. Attribute- BUTTON_8
5. Role key - BP_POW_USR
6. Comp. Usage - CUBT Sales Order
7. Object Type - BT115_SLSO
Please reply as soon as possible.

To figure this out you need to do the following:
First determine the action profile for the transaction in question in the IMG.
CRM->Transactions->Basic Settings->Define Transaction Types
Display the detials of the transaction and you will see the action profile. Next copy that action profile by using transaction SPPFCADM. Then in the action defintion for the print action, replace the standard smartform definition with your z-form.
Finally go back into the transaction definition and assign the z-profile to your transaction type. Please note you should only do this with "z-transactions".
I'm not going to go into further detail as this is basic CRM configuration and is valid for all releases. Please look at the best practices guides, or do a search in the CRM General and Framework forum for further information on how to do the configuration steps.
Take care,
Stephen

Previews does not actually "replace" if document with same name is open.

I am using FMP 9.0--When I "save records as PDF"....
IF I have a pdf open in Preview with the same name,
Preview offers to "save as",
tells me I have one w/the same name and asks if I want to replace...
I say YES....and
ONLY the older version is saved.
(I happen to be troubleshooting a script so the name is "toss.pdf"--several times. If the previous toss.pdf is not open it works as anticipated. Otherwise I do not actually "replace" the older one as preview leads me to believe.)
I have not tried this on a non-intel machine, so I don't know if it's Intel specific--or if it's just me...:-).
Not a huge problem, but it seems that if it is an issue it could use a fix..

Hi,
Thank you for posting in Windows Server Forum.
By default it will automatically update the RemoteApp and Desktop Connections but if in any particular case it’s not happening then for a try you can restart the server and check the result again. In addition you can try running below command and check
the result.
Start-Process rundll32 -ArgumentList "tsworkspace,TaskUpdateWorkspaces2
More information:
Powershell to update "RemoteApp and Desktop Connections"
If a task is registered using the Administrators group for the security context of the task, then you must also make sure the Run with highest privileges check box is checked if you want to run the task. Please check “Task
Security Context” for more details.
Hope it helps!
Thanks,
Dharmesh

My file names have disappeared in grid view. Thery have been replaced with a dark bar along the bottom of the previews. If I toggle using the command u it hide the bar but I still can't see the file name. In list view all the file names are OK.

My file names have disappeared in grid view. Thery have been replaced with a dark bar along the bottom of the previews. If I toggle using the command u it hide the bar but I still can't see the file name. In list view all the file names are OK.

The dark bar is caused by the option "Show metadata below image".
Check the settings for the metadata overlays in Grid view (basic and expanded) by clicking the little "badge" icon below the Browser and selecting "Edit". Is the filename still enabled in the list? And in a high enough position to have precedence for other metadata tags, if the space does not suffice to show all selected tags?
Regards
Léonie

Replacing Flash Buttons/ Preview Issues

I have old Flash Navigation Buttons on my website from years ago. I have been trying to replace them. What would be some good and simple ways to do this? It appears that the programs (DW5, DW6, and DWCC) won't let me do this. For example, I deleted the flash button that says "About" and then typed in new word "About" instead and linked it in a simply way to the "About" page.
However, when I preview this in browsers, my flash button/s are still appearing in the preview window browser, even though already deleted many times in my Design View. The preview page has also showed all sorts of disorganization and chaos for these deletions of old navigation buttons which are not consistent with what is displaying on my working Design copy window. Any suggestions? (Mac Os X 10.8.4)

Thank you all for your suggestions! I have emptied my cache, cookies, and refreshed my browser window. It looks like one button "Resources" in the left navigation panel managed to disappear from all pages on the website-- yet I only made changes to a select few pages. However, many of the changes I made are not showing up yet on the test page.
I am not that familiar with code view so I use Design view mostly. Yet, I did split the view and see the selected area in the code responsible for a flash button. I tried to delete that in code view, as well.
Here is my test page. In design view, I left most of the old navigation buttons intact, except for the bottom three.
I tried to eliminate the bottom three flash buttons and replaced with linked words "About", "Resources", and "Home" (see below). Yet, on the web page, only the "Resources" button has disappeared, and the words I typed in to replace are not displaying yet.
Resources

"AdobePDFViewerNPAPI.plugin" uses too much CPU. How to replace it with Preview?

The AdobePDFViewerNPAPI.plugin uses over 250% CPU when I open a dozen of pdf files from the Internet in Safari 7.0.2. The Adobe Read is 10.1.9 as seen from Safari > Preferences > Security > Internet Plug-in > Manage Website Settings > Adobe Reader.
Can I replace the Adobe Reader Internet Plug-in with Preview or anything else using less CPU? (But it's too time consuming to downlog the pdf files and open thme using other tools e.g. iBook, Preview etc.)
Or any solution at all?

Most PDF documents can be read using the built-in support of OS X & Safari. If you remove the adobe or other pdf plug-in files from HD/Library/Internet Plug ins while any web browsers are closed, then Safari should display them.

Any suggestions for replacing Preview?

Preview on Lion has always been flaky. I found a work around for it crashing after images were deleted, (ctrl+click the thumbnail and send to trash rather than delete from the folder). But this week Preview has decided that I don't have permission to view ANYTHING. Images, PDF's, nothing at all. I've done the checking permissions and it tells me I have read & write, but it still won't open anything at all. When I got home, I viewed the same images on my iMac without any problems at all. But then, my iMac is running Snow Leopard and has never had any problems. There is no way I would even consider 'up-grading' (PAH!) to Lion.
So, given that Apple have no interest in making Preview work, does anyone have any suggestions of stable software that I could use instead? I want to very quickly view images and possibly perform simple edit, such as cropping.

Thanks for the reply.
I'm simply finding this so frustrating. This is my second Macbook Air. My previous machine crashed every time that Preview was used. It then became incredibly unstable and Lion required rebuilding twice. The third time it needed to go back to Apple. On receiving the machine back, I switched it on in the store and it crashed again, there and then, so Apple replaced it.
I posted when the first machine was having problems, eight months ago...
https://discussions.apple.com/message/16957706#16957706
I also posted in a 'Preview problems' thread that began in July 2011. Preview is still unstable a year later :-(
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3195026?start=0&tstart=0
The replacement Macbook Air works fine, except for Preview. Unfortunately because I frequently use the machine for quickly editing photos on the move, that's a big issue for me. Yesterday I was at a race track and couldn't view the images until I returned home.
As for the images, they were mine, taken with a Canon EOS 5D Mk2 and had been downloaded directly from the memory card.
**Bizarely, I have just tried to open an image directly from the memory card and it opened. I returned to the images that are on the Mac that wouldn't open yesterday and they are now opening. I have no explanation for this, I haven't changed anything since I posted my frustrated rant! I haven't even shut the machine down since then.
There is something not right about Preview and if I could find other software to do what I need I would use it.

Replace Lion Developer Preview with App Store version

Few months back Apple invited me to test Lion. I installed the Lion developer preview on a separate parition on my internal Mac hard drive.
Now that Lion is launched, I would like to remove the developer preview partition completely then install Lion from the App store in 10.6
I know I can remove the Lion partition easily from the disk utility but what about the recovery HD partition will that be also removed ?
Since I am not running the gold master version & also messed a lot with Lion, I want to replace Lion from App Store.

I simply removed Lion DP partition using disk utility on the cd.
Then upgrade existing SL partition to Lion using App Store.

When I use Preview,Photo Mechanic and Pages, all JPEG or RAW images appear corrupted. I thought my hard drive was failing and replaced it and migrated everything over but the problem still exists. Any idea what is going on?

When I use Preview,Photo Mechanic and Pages, all JPEG or RAW images appear corrupted.
I thought my hard drive was failing and replaced it and migrated everything over but the problem still exists.
It felt as if maybe a virus was at work but I ran Sophos and found nothing.
I store images on my Drobo Raid system but when I work from my Macbook Pro I have no issues, just on the tower.
Any idea what is going on?

First of all, why did you say yes to Nero Back up before researching what it does with files already on the HDD? When I install Nero, the Back Up is the first thing I disable, it is a nagging pain, there are much better backup programs available. There are several file recovery programs out there to recover deleted files, that is, if that is what happened. Also, if you haven't overwritten the files, so you should be able to find them.

Can i replace missing masters w/ preview/browser images?

I have an aperture library with some pictures where the master is missing. I see them just fine in the browser. I cannot find them anywhere on my computer and disks (i.e. I have read and explored every method discussed here and at other support websites to locate them). We believe they were originally 'referenced' and then some time later the masters were deleted from the directory where they had been located. Now that i am certain that no master is to be found anywhere on my computer, can the 'previews' be exported or somehow used to replace these masters?
They look good enough and appear to have the quality and resolution to make it worth the effort, but i have not figured out how to do this. Suggestions?
John

The previews can;t be exported via the normal procedure, the export pane, but you can simply drag them out of Aperture. If you click on one of the images and start dragging you will see the pointer turn to a green plus indicating you are copying the image.
I would make a folder or folders on the desktop and drag the images from Aperture into it. Create a smart folder in Aperture to select all the images with missing originals, select all those and drag them out.
Then you can import those images back into Aperture. Note that these images will be treated as new imports by Aperture, there will be no connection to their previews or metadata currently in the library.
regards

Preview: What can I use to replace it?

Hi all, I used to really enjoy using Preview for .pdf files and images, but Mavericks has removed the 'hand gesture' tool so I need to find a replacement. I'm now using 'Adobe Reader' for .pdf files, but I need something for images. What can I use?
Thanks for any help!

A Magic Trackpad will let you use your own hand.

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