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  How to configure default settings for Preview? Electric Comet <electric-comet@mail.invalid> - 2015-03-16 09:25 -0700
    Re: How to configure default settings for Preview? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-03-16 16:31 +0000
      Re: How to configure default settings for Preview? Electric Comet <electric-comet@mail.invalid> - 2015-03-16 09:45 -0700
        Re: How to configure default settings for Preview? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-03-16 16:54 +0000
          Re: How to configure default settings for Preview? Electric Comet <electric-comet@mail.invalid> - 2015-03-16 10:08 -0700
            Re: How to configure default settings for Preview? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-03-16 17:18 +0000
            Re: How to configure default settings for Preview? Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> - 2015-03-16 10:35 -0700
              Re: How to configure default settings for Preview? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-03-16 17:37 +0000
              Re: How to configure default settings for Preview? Electric Comet <electric-comet@mail.invalid> - 2015-03-17 11:42 -0700
                Re: How to configure default settings for Preview? awoolmeyer@gmail.com - 2015-03-19 04:26 -0700
        Re: How to configure default settings for Preview? Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2015-03-17 00:00 -0700
          Re: How to configure default settings for Preview? Electric Comet <electric-comet@mail.invalid> - 2015-03-17 11:33 -0700
            Re: How to configure default settings for Preview? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-03-17 15:10 -0400
        Re: How to configure default settings for Preview? Alan Baker <alangbaker@telus.net> - 2015-03-18 00:58 -0700
    Re: How to configure default settings for Preview? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-03-16 20:33 -0400
      Re: How to configure default settings for Preview? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-03-17 01:23 +0000
    Re: How to configure default settings for Preview? super70s <super70s@super70s.invalid> - 2015-03-17 16:04 -0500
      Re: How to configure default settings for Preview? Patty Winter <patty1@wintertime.com> - 2015-03-17 21:53 +0000
        Re: How to configure default settings for Preview? super70s <super70s@super70s.invalid> - 2015-03-18 11:06 -0500
          Re: How to configure default settings for Preview? Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> - 2015-03-18 12:55 -0700
            Re: How to configure default settings for Preview? dorayme <do_ray_me@bigpond.com> - 2015-03-19 08:55 +1100
              Re: How to configure default settings for Preview? Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> - 2015-03-18 16:06 -0700
      Re: How to configure default settings for Preview? Electric Comet <electric-comet@mail.invalid> - 2015-03-18 22:24 -0700
        Re: How to configure default settings for Preview? awoolmeyer@gmail.com - 2015-03-19 04:30 -0700
        Re: How to configure default settings for Preview? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-03-19 13:22 +0000

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#71268 — How to configure default settings for Preview?

something real abot computing

Is there a way to configure the default settings for PReview?

for example how to set the default save format jpeg instead of
png or which selection type i.e. something instead of rectangle
selection

I know not much about macs but was hoping there's got to be a way














 

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#71270

On 2015-03-16, Electric Comet <electric-comet@mail.invalid> wrote:
>
> something real abot computing
>
> Is there a way to configure the default settings for PReview?
>
> for example how to set the default save format jpeg instead of
> png

No.

> or which selection type i.e. something instead of rectangle
> selection

Something being what, exactly?

> I know not much about macs but was hoping there's got to be a way

Doubt it. Preview is just a little preview app, mostly. It supports some
basic editing, but isn't meant to be a full-featured image editing
application. Sounds like what you want is an actual image editor.

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#71273

On 16 Mar 2015 16:31:07 GMT
Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:

> Something being what, exactly?

How about lasso or elliptic and the other one,  fuzzy? or something
like that, free-form select

> 
> > I know not much about macs but was hoping there's got to be a way
> 
> Doubt it. Preview is just a little preview app, mostly. It supports
> some basic editing, but isn't meant to be a full-featured image
> editing application. Sounds like what you want is an actual image
> editor.

ok, changing default settings is considered full-featured

You obviously don't use preview much and I don't either but clearly
more than you and you would be surprised how much you can do with it

the interface is deceptively simple


















 

 

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#71275

On 2015-03-16, Electric Comet <electric-comet@mail.invalid> wrote:
> On 16 Mar 2015 16:31:07 GMT
> Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
>
>> Something being what, exactly?
>
> How about lasso or elliptic and the other one,  fuzzy? or something
> like that, free-form select
> 
>> > I know not much about macs but was hoping there's got to be a way
>> 
>> Doubt it. Preview is just a little preview app, mostly. It supports
>> some basic editing, but isn't meant to be a full-featured image
>> editing application. Sounds like what you want is an actual image
>> editor.
>
> ok, changing default settings is considered full-featured
>
> You obviously don't use preview much and I don't either but clearly
> more than you and you would be surprised how much you can do with it
>
> the interface is deceptively simple

I use it every day - just not much for editing since I have better tools
available.

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#71277

On 16 Mar 2015 16:54:00 GMT
Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:

> I use it every day - just not much for editing since I have better
> tools available.

why not say which ones

are they free as in beer 
i just want some default settings, how hard can it be saving
clicks is significant and important

can I binary edit Preview or does apple sign their softwares

on linux or mac

or maybe you're a <GASP> closet windows user, nah

i need to try one called gimp on the imac it is scriptable
i just hope the binaries are safe and it's free/free









 

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#71279

On 2015-03-16, Electric Comet <electric-comet@mail.invalid> wrote:
> On 16 Mar 2015 16:54:00 GMT
> Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
>
>> I use it every day - just not much for editing since I have better
>> tools available.
>
> why not say which ones

The usual ones, depending on what I am doing at the time: 

Pixelmator, Affinity Photo, Affinity Designer

Affinity Photo and Designers have essentially taken the place of
Photoshop and Illustrator for me, and I couldn't be happier about that.

> are they free as in beer 

The ones I use? No. That doesn't mean free ones aren't readily
available though. I choose the ones I use because they are better than
free alternatives, naturally. The phrase, "You get what you pay for"
does apply to image editors.

> i just want some default settings, how hard can it be saving
> clicks is significant and important

So go forth and find an image editor that supports that. There are
*plenty* to choose from out there. I'd start with a simple web search
for something like "mac image editor" or perhaps "free mac image
editor", and go from there.

> can I binary edit Preview or does apple sign their softwares

Apple does sign apps, yes.

> on linux or mac

What about them?

> or maybe you're a <GASP> closet windows user, nah

Of course I use Windows. Most of the world does. I just don't choose to
run it on my own personal hardware, except through a VM on my Mac, and
only when absolutely necessary. : )

> i need to try one called gimp on the imac it is scriptable
> i just hope the binaries are safe and it's free/free

GIMP has always been free and open source. It runs fine on OS X. Have at
it.

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#71282

On 2015-03-16 17:08:57 +0000, Electric Comet said:

> On 16 Mar 2015 16:54:00 GMT
> Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
> 
>> I use it every day - just not much for editing since I have better
>> tools available.
> 
> why not say which ones
> 
> are they free as in beer
> i just want some default settings, how hard can it be saving
> clicks is significant and important
> 
> can I binary edit Preview or does apple sign their softwares
> 
> on linux or mac
> 
> or maybe you're a <GASP> closet windows user, nah
> 
> i need to try one called gimp on the imac it is scriptable
> i just hope the binaries are safe and it's free/free


TROLL ALERT!!!


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#71284

On 2015-03-16, Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> wrote:
> On 2015-03-16 17:08:57 +0000, Electric Comet said:
>
>> On 16 Mar 2015 16:54:00 GMT
>> Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> I use it every day - just not much for editing since I have better
>>> tools available.
>> 
>> why not say which ones
>> 
>> are they free as in beer
>> i just want some default settings, how hard can it be saving
>> clicks is significant and important
>> 
>> can I binary edit Preview or does apple sign their softwares
>> 
>> on linux or mac
>> 
>> or maybe you're a <GASP> closet windows user, nah
>> 
>> i need to try one called gimp on the imac it is scriptable
>> i just hope the binaries are safe and it's free/free
>
> TROLL ALERT!!!

I'm well aware he's a troll. ; )

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#71389

On Mon, 16 Mar 2015 10:35:53 -0700
Savageduck <savageduck1@me.com> wrote:

why would anyone even bother taking the time to reply and then just
saying that?

it's so 1990's
kind of pitiful really

> 
> TROLL ALERT!!!

<shrug>















 

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#71587

On Tuesday, March 17, 2015 at 2:42:58 PM UTC-4, Electric Comet wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Mar 2015 10:35:53 -0700
> Savageduck <savageduck1@me.com> wrote:
> 
> why would anyone even bother taking the time to reply and then just
> saying that?
> 

Because they are Appholes without lives. They love being screwed by Apple.

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#71338

In article <me71av$6ap$7@dont-email.me>,
 Electric Comet <electric-comet@mail.invalid> wrote:

> On 16 Mar 2015 16:31:07 GMT
> Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
> 
> > Something being what, exactly?
> 
> How about lasso or elliptic and the other one,  fuzzy? or something
> like that, free-form select

Nope.  You want those features, buy an image editor. Pixelmator or 
Graphic Converter or live with just rectangular edit.

> 
> > 
> > > I know not much about macs but was hoping there's got to be a way
> > 
> > Doubt it. Preview is just a little preview app, mostly. It supports
> > some basic editing, but isn't meant to be a full-featured image
> > editing application. Sounds like what you want is an actual image
> > editor.
> 
> ok, changing default settings is considered full-featured

Yep, you obviously don't know about "Don't like our defaults?  See 
Figure 1."

http://www.dourish.com/goodies/see-figure-1.html

> 
> You obviously don't use preview much and I don't either but clearly
> more than you and you would be surprised how much you can do with it
> 
> the interface is deceptively simple

It does a lot for such a little app.  Any real heavy lifting, I break 
out Pixelmator.

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#71387

On Tue, 17 Mar 2015 00:00:03 -0700
Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> wrote:

> Nope.  You want those features, buy an image editor. Pixelmator or 
> Graphic Converter or live with just rectangular edit.

it does those selections already
if you read the OP carefully you can see that the problem is
that the default selection is a rectangle shape


Will have to look at pixlemator also mentioned by others

although isn't there some kind of screen recorder that can be played
back for gui apps?










 

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#71405

On 15-03-17 14:33, Electric Comet wrote:

> it does those selections already
> if you read the OP carefully you can see that the problem is
> that the default selection is a rectangle shape

Default selection is dependent on type of document.  Preview uses a text
selection by default for a text document, and rectangle selection for
image documents.

This is a context driven default, so it could not be part of defaults
used when application lanches since the second you open a document, a
new context is set depending on document type.

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#71482

On 2015-03-16 16:45:48 +0000, Electric Comet said:

> On 16 Mar 2015 16:31:07 GMT
> Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
> 
>> Something being what, exactly?
> 
> How about lasso or elliptic and the other one,  fuzzy? or something
> like that, free-form select
> 
>> 
>>> I know not much about macs but was hoping there's got to be a way
>> 
>> Doubt it. Preview is just a little preview app, mostly. It supports
>> some basic editing, but isn't meant to be a full-featured image
>> editing application. Sounds like what you want is an actual image
>> editor.
> 
> ok, changing default settings is considered full-featured

In your opinion...

> 
> You obviously don't use preview much and I don't either but clearly
> more than you and you would be surprised how much you can do with it

I use preview a great deal, actually.

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Hmmmm...

Can you change the defaults of your newsclient so that it doesn't post 
a whole bunch of blank lines at the end of each of your posts, or are 
you just incompetent?

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#71332

On 15-03-16 12:25, Electric Comet wrote:

> Is there a way to configure the default settings for PReview?


Generally speaking, default settings are configured in preferences. And
sometimes you have to access preferences while no document is opened.
However, not sure this is possible in more recent versions of OS-X as it
tends to close apps when last window has been closed.

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#71334

On 2015-03-17, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> wrote:
> sometimes you have to access preferences while no document is opened.

Certainly not Preview. What in the world are you talking about?

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#71427

I'm still using (PPC) Preview 2.1.0, they screwed the selection tool up 
in it after that for some reason.

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#71432

In article <super70s-E265EB.16045617032015@reader.albasani.net>,
super70s  <super70s@super70s.invalid> wrote:
>I'm still using (PPC) Preview 2.1.0, they screwed the selection tool up 
>in it after that for some reason.

How so?

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#71493

In article <5508a263$0$36568$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net>,
 Patty Winter <patty1@wintertime.com> wrote:

> In article <super70s-E265EB.16045617032015@reader.albasani.net>,
> super70s  <super70s@super70s.invalid> wrote:
> >I'm still using (PPC) Preview 2.1.0, they screwed the selection tool up 
> >in it after that for some reason.
> 
> How so?

As I remember it just didn't work the way it should when I'd try later 
versions. Maybe they finally corrected it.

But then, I'm still using Photoshop 3.0.5 too because later ones seem 
ridiculously complex and unintuitive, lol.

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#71502

On 2015-03-18 16:06:00 +0000, super70s said:

> In article <5508a263$0$36568$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net>,
>  Patty Winter <patty1@wintertime.com> wrote:
> 
>> In article <super70s-E265EB.16045617032015@reader.albasani.net>,
>> super70s  <super70s@super70s.invalid> wrote:
>>> I'm still using (PPC) Preview 2.1.0, they screwed the selection tool up
>>> in it after that for some reason.
>> 
>> How so?
> 
> As I remember it just didn't work the way it should when I'd try later
> versions. Maybe they finally corrected it.
> 
> But then, I'm still using Photoshop 3.0.5 too because later ones seem
> ridiculously complex and unintuitive, lol.

Photoshop 3.0.5?? What OS are you running that on?
It certainly won't run on any flavor of OSX. You might get it to run on 
a VM Win NT partition.

I guess you aren't doing too much photo editing, because you are 
missing some revolutionary changes and improvments in Photoshop.

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