Preview broken with Mavericks?

I too am disappointed with Preview navigation. A few years ago I switched to relying on Preview instead of Acrobat.

Now, the pan tool is gone. You can't really navigate large pdf images (like architectural drawings) without quality pan and zoom tools. Scroll bars are a second rate work around and what with the thin and minimalist scroll bars they are a pain in the rear to use beause a bit of digital (finger) imprecision and you've hit the window underneath and that is pretty boring.

I hope this isn't another Mac sacrifice for IOS. It is certainly not a first rate user interface experience.

Back to Acrobat I guess.

Donald

The stated solution doesn't actually solve the problem. Using inertia does get scrolling back, but the movement is unpredictable and often zero.

And I don't see *any* scroll bars in Preview...

I also have this problem on my MBP 2011 13". It drives me insane! I have to click the search field in preview to get it to work again. I hope Apple fixes this in a .1 or .2 upgrade!

Where can I report at bug to Apple?

Happens on my Macbook Air 13 2013 as well. Annoying but the easiest work around to get scrolling working again is just quickly moving the cursor outside the preview window (if you're not full screen of course). Seems to be a problem where preview is trying to zoom and reload when I'm scrolling as it sometimes sends the PDF a slight bit out of focus.

I'm having the same problem but I have a temporary work around.

The problem occurs when you switch from continuous scrolling to single or double page viewing and then back again to continuous scrolling.

After that you trackpad doesn't work in Preview.

Change it back to View > Continuous Scrolling then quit and restart Preview. Scrolling should now work until you change to single or double page view again.

Until they fix this I think I'm stuck in Continuous Scrolling for the forseeable future.

Edit: I just submitted a Bug to Apple's Feedback page so fingers crossed.

I found a similar problem with PDF in Safari. If I magnify the view so the width of the page is greater than that of the window, sometimes I can't scroll left/right to see the whole page. I even have that problem with PNG's.

Masparks

You are right about this. Moving the cursor off the page causes the window to refresh properly (the text becomes sharp) and then you can scroll again for half a page or so before you have to do it again!

Paul

Update: I tried this suggestion:

http://forums.macrumors.com/showpost.php?p=17764897&postcount=16

and unchecked "Use keyboard shortcuts to zoom", and it appears to work. In fact, keyboard shortcuts to zoom still works with this option unchecked.

Paul

I spoke too soon!

The problem has returned.

Same problem with my MacBook 13" Aluminium end 2008. Preview randomly freezes when reading PDF documents. I thought that it could be due to my old configuration but it seems that many people are facing the same problem...

I did not find any fix that works... :-(

Same problem here. Really annoying. I had similar problems with preview too.

Same problem here on multiple Mavericks Macs in my office. Not a trackpad/mouse issue. The scroll bars completely disappear unless you Resize the window to be small. Then they always will reappear. Expanding the window again makes them disappear. Very consistent. Started the day we installed Mavericks.

Scrolling ability with the mouse or trackpad disappears and reappears along with the scroll bars disappearing and appearing.

Consistency across files and computers indicates a coding problem rather than an intermittent conflict of some sort. We've tried all permutations of settings in Preferences and Preview.

Tried many suggestions from various sites but nothing works. And moving back to Adobe Reader for Mac is a PITA. So recently I come across an open-sourced PDF reader for Mac -- "Skim". And it works flawlessly, and best of all it's free. You guys should try it, until Apple fix the Preview bug.

Apple may have fixed this as the problem appears to be corrected with the update to Mavericks that was released today. I've been using preview all afternoon the same way I usually do and I haven't had the problem once. Changing my scroll settings (as is marked as the solution) never corrected the problem so I'm using the default settings.

@masparks - thanks for the heads up. Indeed, after I upgraded to 10.9.2 today, the Preview bug is gone.