I want to disable the sidebar in Preview from opening every time I open a PDF. How?

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I want to disable the sidebar in Preview from opening every time I open a PDF. How?

I want to prevent "Preview" PDF viewer from opening the PDF's with sidebar. Trying to disable the sidebar, can't find anything that allows it to be disabled. I know how to disable the sidebar after the fact, but I find it annoying because it takes up space and is useless and I am constantly having to hide it. Can I just disable it from the preferences, that way when my PDF opens the sidebar is not there? Looked but couldn't find anything.

Preview PDF Viewer-OTHER, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

Posted on Jan 2, 2013 10:57 AM

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Answer 1

Jan 2, 2013 11:08 AM in response to wonges88

In Preview>Preferences>General do you have Open All Files in One WIndow selected?

Matt

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Jan 2, 2013 11:22 AM in response to Matthew Morgan

I did not have that option selected, I had selected "open each file in its own window." I did try selecting the option Preview>Preferences>PDF "Show sidebar only for table of contents" and it decreases the amount of sidebars that pop up when starting Preview, but it doesn't eliminate the sidebars altogether.

I think that this is an issue with how the author of the PDF saves and collates the file. I wish in the preferences there was simply a "turn off sidebar," but I have yet to find it. Thanks though.

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Jan 2, 2013 11:28 AM in response to wonges88

wonges88 wrote:

I think that this is an issue with how the author of the PDF saves and collates the file. I wish in the preferences there was simply a "turn off sidebar," but I have yet to find it.

Yes. I think so too.

All my PDFs open in Preview without the sidebar.

Matt

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