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Preview app: Add text annotation with left justify?

I'm using the Preview app to insert text into some PDF files. I can use the Annotate feature to create a text box in the area I need it and adjust the font, color, size, etc. The only thing I can't seem to do is set the justification to Left Justify. It will show text as center justify - anyone know how to change this?

iMac 2.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, Mac OS X (10.6)

Posted on Aug 31, 2009 6:26 AM

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Posted on Sep 1, 2009 12:18 PM

I am wondering about this too. I can't find text justification anywhere.

Thanks.
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Nov 16, 2009 2:37 PM in response to Darren Conrad

I can find out what the defaults are with:

defaults read com.apple.preview

There are many properties but a TextAligment property is not one of them.

I tried below but they do not work.

defaults write com.apple.preview NSTextAlignment 0
defaults write com.apple.preview PVAnnotationTextAlignment 0

NB: 0 means left alignment

Any idea?

Maybe Apple has to create an text alignment feature for the GUI or provide the property that we can set it from Terminal.

Preview app: Add text annotation with left justify?

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