Preview problem running Mojave

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Preview problem running Mojave

Hi, I recently got used an iMac Late 2015 to replace my old Mid 2011 and I am now running Mojave 10.14.6 build 18G5033 from a clean installation.

I noticed an issue with Preview app. (maybe there are also other issues, but at the moment I don’t know):

• when selecting 2 or more files e.g. PDF it always opens them in single windows each, even choosing one of the other two options in Preferences.

Browsing some posts about Preview in Mojave I learned how to find the Preview .plist file and trashed it.

But nothing changed.

Has someone managed to fix those Preview problems?

What can I do with that?

iMac Line (2012 and Later)

Posted on Jun 18, 2020 6:28 AM

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Jun 18, 2020 9:53 AM in response to VikingOSX

Thanks very much for your reply.

Ah, so?

In fact I just checked that it doesn't happen with groups of jpeg files.

But it makes more long and complicated to get to a unique pdf document from single pdf pages obtained by scanning paper documents one by one in pdf, which I often have to do.

I don't understand why they decided to set Mojave Preview like that.

Anyway... that's it.

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Answer 2

Jun 18, 2020 9:23 AM in response to betterphil

In Mojave, Preview opens each PDF document in a separate window. There is no Preview Preference settting to override this behavior for PDF documents.

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Answer 3

Jun 18, 2020 10:01 AM in response to betterphil

The Image category in Preview Preferences does allow one to designate how groups of images behave when opening, but that setting does not control PDF behaviour.

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betterphil Author

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Jun 18, 2020 1:43 PM in response to VikingOSX

I see, unlike previously.

What I wanted to say is that I don't understand why instead of going toward maybe an easier and smoother way, we now have a poorer and more complicated operation.

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Jun 18, 2020 2:35 PM in response to betterphil

Only the macOS Product team knows what on earth they are doing to Preview, which has been under useful feature siege for several years now.

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