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<blockquote data-quote="Randy B. Singer" data-source="post: 1949223" data-attributes="member: 190607"><p>It's that way on purpose. Apple is actually responding to consumers here. Apple dallied with offering some pretty advanced software for a while. Many users whined about those apps being too hard to use. Some wanted apps to go all the way back and to be as easy to use as the original MacWrite and MacPaint.</p><p></p><p>What Apple learned is that having too many features in their free software applications SCARES and infuriates users. So in response, Apple dumbed down almost all of their free apps, and discontinued some of their more advanced apps entirely.</p><p></p><p>Pages used to be much more high-end than it is now, for instance. Apps like Preview and Photos offer a lot of functionality that users want and have asked for, but those features are mostly kept well out of sight, so that they don't scare anyone.</p><p></p><p>Preview is actually a pretty powerful little app. But Apple doesn't want to make it possible to set it up (and users might do so by accident) so that functionality is always in user's faces, scaring them. I know...I know...it would be nice to be able to set things up so those features were optionally the default. But Apple has decided to do things to placate the most users possible, not please the minority of advanced users. That means that some users will be disappointed. I think that Apple assumes that such users will just use more advanced third party products.</p><p></p><p>Check out this alternative to Preview for working with PDF's. You might like it better:</p><p></p><p>FoxIt PDF Reader (free)</p><p><a href="https://www.foxit.com/pdf-reader/" target="_blank">https://www.foxit.com/pdf-reader/</a></p><p>(View, print, annotate, fill-in forms, and sign PDF documents. )</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Randy B. Singer, post: 1949223, member: 190607"] It's that way on purpose. Apple is actually responding to consumers here. Apple dallied with offering some pretty advanced software for a while. Many users whined about those apps being too hard to use. Some wanted apps to go all the way back and to be as easy to use as the original MacWrite and MacPaint. What Apple learned is that having too many features in their free software applications SCARES and infuriates users. So in response, Apple dumbed down almost all of their free apps, and discontinued some of their more advanced apps entirely. Pages used to be much more high-end than it is now, for instance. Apps like Preview and Photos offer a lot of functionality that users want and have asked for, but those features are mostly kept well out of sight, so that they don't scare anyone. Preview is actually a pretty powerful little app. But Apple doesn't want to make it possible to set it up (and users might do so by accident) so that functionality is always in user's faces, scaring them. I know...I know...it would be nice to be able to set things up so those features were optionally the default. But Apple has decided to do things to placate the most users possible, not please the minority of advanced users. That means that some users will be disappointed. I think that Apple assumes that such users will just use more advanced third party products. Check out this alternative to Preview for working with PDF's. You might like it better: FoxIt PDF Reader (free) [URL code="true"]https://www.foxit.com/pdf-reader/[/URL] (View, print, annotate, fill-in forms, and sign PDF documents. ) [/QUOTE]
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