Martin Rice

Q: Drag multi-page pdf into Notes and only first page appears

I just started using Notes (El Capitan) and have noticed this problem: if I drag a multi-page pdf file onto Notes in the Dock, the file appears in the Notes app, but only the first page.

 

Does anyone know how to fix this?

 

TIA

iMac, OS X El Capitan (10.11)

Posted on Oct 27, 2015 1:12 PM

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  • by kwof,Solvedanswer

    kwof kwof Feb 11, 2016 10:58 AM in response to Martin Rice
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    Feb 11, 2016 10:58 AM in response to Martin Rice

    Here's a work-around. View thumbnails in Preview, and drag the thumbnails one at a time into your note.

  • by Martin Rice,

    Martin Rice Martin Rice Feb 11, 2016 11:19 AM in response to kwof
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    Feb 11, 2016 11:19 AM in response to kwof

    Although this works, it's really a poor solution for getting PDFs into Notes if you have many multi-page documents. Between not being able to capture web pages to Notes -- only URLs -- and not being able to store large PDFs easily, I guess that I'll have to stick with Evernote -- which is fine, but it would have been nice to have used an Apple app.

     

    Thanks for the response.

  • by Robert Lewis1,

    Robert Lewis1 Robert Lewis1 Jul 1, 2016 11:01 AM in response to Martin Rice
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    Jul 1, 2016 11:01 AM in response to Martin Rice

    Same here. I just switched from Evernote to Apple Notes because Evernote free is going away.  But disappointing that Notes is not as useful for this reason.

  • by Rich Bullock,

    Rich Bullock Rich Bullock Jul 1, 2016 3:13 PM in response to Robert Lewis1
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    Jul 1, 2016 3:13 PM in response to Robert Lewis1

    I just made this migration from Evernote. My multi-page PDFs also show only the first page in Notes, but they open the full PDF doc (all the pages) when I tap on the file on my iPhone. So it gives me the complete PDF, just not in the Note. Seems to work okay. My bigger issue is the loss of inserted tables in Evernote.