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How can I get rid of Preview's edit panel at the top of the window?
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<blockquote data-quote="John Chambers" data-source="post: 1776941" data-attributes="member: 346262"><p>Well, yeah, but I'm not trying to treat Preview as an editor. I'm trying to use it for proofreading, which is sometimes also referred to as "previewing", before putting a document online. The editing is done to plain-text source files, which are then combined and fed to a formatter to get the PDF. Preview is seriously slowing the proofreading down by telling me that the file has changed and refusing to reload it. That sorta shoots down the whole concept of preview/proofreading. ;-)</p><p></p><p>Also, closing the Preview window before doing the formatting results in an even greater slowdown in the task. It means that you have to tell Preview to close and reload the file to check each edit, and it then displays the first page of the document. You then have to scroll down to where you were before, and find the line within the page. It's much more time efficient to just live with the current misbehavior, since it only happens a few times a day, rather than adding all that extra time to every edit/proofread loop. The 95% or so of the time it does do the reload, though it also pops back to the top of the page, sometimes requiring extra time to find your place in the page again.</p><p></p><p>Guess I'll just have to put up with it. (I do have Adobe Acrobat, but it's even worse than Preview for proofreading, and it wastes a huge amount of screen space with all the whitespace and cruft that it surrounds the content with. I wonder if there's a version of xpdf that runs on OS X. It does the job right, only reloading when you hit ^R, then doing it silently. But so far, I haven't found a linux laptop that can display nearly as much stuff on the screen as my Macbook Pro. ;-)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="John Chambers, post: 1776941, member: 346262"] Well, yeah, but I'm not trying to treat Preview as an editor. I'm trying to use it for proofreading, which is sometimes also referred to as "previewing", before putting a document online. The editing is done to plain-text source files, which are then combined and fed to a formatter to get the PDF. Preview is seriously slowing the proofreading down by telling me that the file has changed and refusing to reload it. That sorta shoots down the whole concept of preview/proofreading. ;-) Also, closing the Preview window before doing the formatting results in an even greater slowdown in the task. It means that you have to tell Preview to close and reload the file to check each edit, and it then displays the first page of the document. You then have to scroll down to where you were before, and find the line within the page. It's much more time efficient to just live with the current misbehavior, since it only happens a few times a day, rather than adding all that extra time to every edit/proofread loop. The 95% or so of the time it does do the reload, though it also pops back to the top of the page, sometimes requiring extra time to find your place in the page again. Guess I'll just have to put up with it. (I do have Adobe Acrobat, but it's even worse than Preview for proofreading, and it wastes a huge amount of screen space with all the whitespace and cruft that it surrounds the content with. I wonder if there's a version of xpdf that runs on OS X. It does the job right, only reloading when you hit ^R, then doing it silently. But so far, I haven't found a linux laptop that can display nearly as much stuff on the screen as my Macbook Pro. ;-) [/QUOTE]
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