Leopard Tricks Tips and Tools

I’m not sure if this is new in Leopard but I just discovered it. You can significantly shrink the size of PDF files using Preview.

To do this open the PDF in Preview. Select “Save As…” from the File menu. In the dialog that appears you will see a pop-up menu labelled “Quartz Filter”. Choose “Reduce File Size” and when you save the PDF it will be much smaller than the original.

There is some image quality loss so be sure to keep a copy of the original in case you aren’t happy with the results.

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written by tfindlay \\ tags: Leopard, pdf, preview

Not much of a trick, but I just wanted to call attention to all the functionality that the new Preview packs. It’s all there, in the help menu, in “What’s New in Preview”. Now with Preview there’s a great deal more PDF manipulation.

Let’s say you have a PDF document. With the sidebar open, you can now rearrange, delete pages, you can even drag pictures or other PDF documents from the desktop into the sidebar, move them around, and Preview will make them part of the original document. It’s great when creating or editing things on the fly. This definitely adds to the post about Preview’s Instant Alpha capabilities to clean up pictures.

written by Ethan Zara \\ tags: Leopard, pdf, preview