It seems that the flow of adding text annotations to pdf files on preview has changed on Yosemite. Instead of allowing the user to place a text box with the cursor and then begin editing, the behavior has been updated with placing the textbox automatically. I can't seem to find any options to change this behavior to the way that it was back in OSX Mavericks, but does anyone know of a workaround?
Thanks.
It seems like a minor issue, but it's very annoying when you gotta add a lot of annotations to an image/pdf.
Also, It's not the only problem: When adding a new line of text, instead of adding a line under the first, and keeping the first line at its proper place, the text box will center vertically, moving the 1st line up and the new line down.. In essence, it's impossible to do multi-line annotations and keeping things aligned.
Also, preview would show a yellow line and snap your text vertically or horizontally to keep things precisely aligned. That feature is gone.
Why would they go to the trouble of REMOVING features that worked well before?
For me it goes beyond that. After the text box appears in the centre of the image, most of the time it is impossible to select and replace it when I need it to be.
After creating objects like a circle or duplicates, I have the same problem. Most of the time I can't move things to where I need it. Also, the program crashes.
Also, preview would show a yellow line and snap your text vertically or horizontally to keep things precisely aligned. That feature is gone.
How to align boxes:
I miss how the annotations used to work in the previous version of Preview!
I'm definitely not a fan of how the text box and note defaults to the center of the page. It's also very cumbersome having to continuously go to the toolbar to select text and note to get another text box or note to appear - and then having to move it from the center of the page to where I want it to be. I appreciated the older version where I was able to just click where I wanted the text box or note to appear and also being able to select text or note once and being able to just click with my cursor in multiple parts of the page to annotate. This was a lifesaver taking notes in class - now I'm missing half my notes because I have to constantly move the boxes. Very frustrating!
I used to also be able to just use command + and command - to make my text smaller or bigger in the text box - now it just zooms in and out of the page.
Preview used to be my highly recommended choice for annotating - but it's not as efficient anymore.
Is this documented anywhere?
Is there a technique for aligning vertically and horizontally at the same time (as was possible in the previous release using the visible alignment guides)?
Kind of the same technique but it's off by some pixels and not that intuitive.
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