How to have sidebar with thumbnails by default in Preview app ?
I'm using OSX El Capitan 10.11.3 on iMac, and whenever I open a PDF, there is no sidebar. I must everytime click the sidebar icon and select thumbnails. I'd like to have it on by default, but can't find the option or how to modify the plist file...
iMac (27-inch Mid 2011), OS X El Capitan (10.11.3)
If Thumbnails is checked in the Preview "View" menu, it should always open a PDF with the sidebar open. Unless of course it's a single page PDF.
Thank you for your answer, but as I said, whenever I open a new PDF or document, it will open without the sidebar and without the thumbnails. No matter if I check thumbnails in View menu, it only applies to current document.
AFAIK, Preview 8.1 opens multi-page PDFs with the thumbnail sidebar open by default unless the PDF is saved with the sidebar closed. Single page PDFs are the opposite, they open with the sidebar hidden unless saved with the thumbnail sidebar open.
Make sure "Continuous Scroll" is selected in Preview> Preferences> PDF "Opening for the first time:" Show As from the drop down menu.
If yours does not do that then it is damaged or one of its .plist files is corrupt or the permissions are wrong. That I don't know how to fix. Perhaps someone else does.
FWIW, I just found this support link for people who are unhappy the sidebar always opens. Preview Sidebar
Can't please everyone I guess.
Thank you very much for your help.
I've looked at your link, thought I knew about PVPDFSuppressSidebarOnOpening and I thought I had checked already in the plist file, I checked again and found it was set to true !
So I went to ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.Preview/Data/Library/Preferences/
and set PVPDFSuppressSidebarOnOpening to false in com.apple.Preview.plist .
Ty
How to have sidebar with thumbnails by default in Preview app ? Whenever I open a PDF, there is no sidebar.
