paulo555
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Mac OS X

Q: Services menu missing - pdf's

On apps like "Preview" or "Skim" the contextual Services menu is missing! Any service is available! This is normal or is another one PDFKit problem?

MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Mavericks (10.9.2)

Posted on Oct 15, 2016 3:44 PM

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Q: Services menu missing - pdf's

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  • by majortom1967,

    majortom1967 majortom1967 Oct 16, 2016 8:24 AM in response to paulo555
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    Oct 16, 2016 8:24 AM in response to paulo555

    Same for me, at least in Preview.

    (Sierra is a fresh install).

    Simon

  • by SiHancox,

    SiHancox SiHancox Oct 16, 2016 9:21 AM in response to paulo555
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    Oct 16, 2016 9:21 AM in response to paulo555

    Same also for me with Preview, although the "Services" option is still available it's headed "No Services Apply" and only gives you the option to click on "Services Preferences". When that window opens you get several options under different headings (Pictures, Messaging, Development etc) but none that seem to apply for Preview!

  • by VikingOSX,

    VikingOSX VikingOSX Oct 16, 2016 10:39 AM in response to paulo555
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    Oct 16, 2016 10:39 AM in response to paulo555

    Services only become available when they are enabled in the System Preferences : Keyboard panel : Shortcuts : Services list, and you actually have selected text in that document opened in Preview, or other Cocoa applications.

     

    The key to Services is something must be selected in the currently displayed document.

  • by paulo555,

    paulo555 paulo555 Oct 16, 2016 11:11 AM in response to VikingOSX
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    Oct 16, 2016 11:11 AM in response to VikingOSX

    Yes, I know that! As SiHancox mentioned in Preview>Services appears "No Services Apply", but in contextual menu (when you select text and right-click) no "Services" item available!

    As you can see I'm not the only one with this problem: Services menu is empty in Sierra Preview App

  • by SiHancox,

    SiHancox SiHancox Oct 16, 2016 11:40 AM in response to VikingOSX
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    Oct 16, 2016 11:40 AM in response to VikingOSX

    Think that is the issue, there appears to be no way to enable any services for Preview from with in System Preferences : Keyboard panel : Shortcuts : Services  - below is screen shot showing nothing is available even when text is highlighted.

     

    Screen Shot 2016-10-16 at 19.14.52.png

     

    Looking through the services list it doesn't seem to have anything specific for use within Preview and the ones already ticked for other Apps don't appear to work - which is different to Safari which has the following:

     

    Screen Shot 2016-10-16 at 19.33.00.png

     

    Just can't seem to get any services to appear for Preview no matter what is ticked - or am I missing something!

  • by paulo555,

    paulo555 paulo555 Oct 16, 2016 12:03 PM in response to SiHancox
    Level 1 (13 points)
    Mac OS X
    Oct 16, 2016 12:03 PM in response to SiHancox

    I'm not sure about that. I use some apps/tools that had worked with the pdf readers like Preview, Skim, etc.

    As example, I use Devonthink and Excerptor. As you can see in the image on this link (from the tool excerptor), there are many services available on Preview app to Devonthink and Excerptor!

    https://raw.githubusercontent.com/guoc/excerptor/master/screenshots/excerpt_to_p asteboard.gif

    In my case, all these services are activated on system preferences!

    Here we talk about Preview, but in many others pdf reader apps - like Skim, Devonthink, etc. (with exception of the Acrobat that never work with "Services") - I recently found the same problem!

    Considering the recent problems with the PDFKit on macOS sierra, maybe this is another one!