How? Preview 6.0 has lost its 'Hand' tool! So, if you're not on MacBook Pro with touchpad, you can't actually pan around open document, not depending on document type. Is there any chance to get old Preview back?
iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
Rolled back to Lion's Preview 5.2.2. Had to edit Info.plist to make it work. But now it works just fine.
Rolled back to Lion's Preview 5.2.2. Had to edit Info.plist to make it work. But now it works just fine.
Tell me how you rolled back to Lion's Preview. The Mountain Lion version does not allow me to insert hyperlinks.
Yeah, please, link us to the answer. Thanks.
Here's the link to MacRumors forum thread with how-to.
This is excellent -- thanks so much!
Do you know if there's a way to get this version of Preview to be the default for opening PDFs?
I'm finding that if even if I hit "Change All..." in the Get Info box, the setting keeps reverting to Preview 6.0.
For what it's worth, I renamed the Preview 5.2.2 to "Preview_Lion" so it can live in my Applications folder next to Preview 6.0.
Since you renamed Preview 5.2.2, it appears in 'Open with' list. Choose it and then just hit 'Change All...'
Right, but as I said in my post, I can hit "Change all..." but the setting doesn't stick -- it reverts right back to Preview 6.0 every time.
Thank you! Big help!
@bizdata and @octothorpe
Yes, I have this problem too. Impossible to implement "change all" in this case.
My workflow is ruined if I have to specify the application for each pdf file.
I even tried to suppress Preview 6 (and associatied files) then rename Preview 5.2.2. from "Preview_Lion" to "Preview", and then try again and "change all". but then the finder will just crash. This is not the solution.
I am also having trouble setting the Older version of Preview.app as the default. It automatically switches back to the Mountain Lion version after hitting change all. Has anyone found out how to change this, permanently?
Why not try to Archive the new Mountian Lion Preview (zip) then erase the app.
I tested the Preview version 5.5 first -worked great- and I had also renamed the copy to Preview 5.5. I had the same problem with trying to get Change All to stick.
I did a restart under Mac OS10.6 on a separate partition. Then I went into my 10.8.4 Application Folder to move Preview version 6 into a folder as a backup. Finder makes a copy. Delete the original and then I can rename the version 5.5 copy back to Preview. Now the System treats version 5.5 as the default.
This worked very well although if you don't want to keep a copy, you don't need to go through the copy process. Also, you do not need to startup from 10.6, you can startup from any OS, just as long as you are not starting up from the disk (or partition) that you wish to modify.
Here is a simple method to use the older Preview as a default PDF viewer, without removing new version or editing plist, etc.
Get back Lion's Preview 5.5.1 to Mountain Lion?
