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Remove Preview's slideshow controller graphics Apps
Tiger only hintI read a comment in another hint, in which a user wanted to disable the onscreen displays in Preview, so they could lecture without the obtrusive controls.

So I cobbled two scripts together. It no doubt disables bevels on other things, too, and it is not for the faint hearted. Please back up your files before trying it!

To turn off the bevels:

do shell script "cd /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Slideshow.framework/Versions/A/Resources/;
  mkdir backup;
  mv *.tif backup/;
  cd English.lproj/; cp Localizable.strings archived.Localizable.strings;
  cat Localizable.strings | sed 's%<string>[^<]*</string>%<string></string>%g' > Localizable.strings2;
  mv Localizable.strings2 Localizable.strings;" with administrator privileges

and to restore them:

do shell script "cd /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Slideshow.framework/Versions/A/Resources/backup/;
  mv *.tif ../;
  cd ..;
  cd English.lproj/; mv archived.Localizable.strings Localizable.strings;" with administrator privileges

These have only been tested on 10.4.4 and 10.4.5. Any suggesitions on how to make this a single script would be appreciated -- as you can see, they're more like Terminal scripts.

[robg adds: I haven't tested this one, and please heed the warnings if you do try it -- these scripts move and copy files, though notuhing is deleted.]
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OR... use Xee
Authored by: Lectrick on Mar 07, '06 08:47:29AM
Or you could just use Xee, and open a file fullscreen and use command-arrows (or mousewheel) to change "slides" (which actually iterates through all the viewable image files in the same directory).

(to be honest, I literally just discovered that app this morning... it's great. Preview.app has now been relegated to fancy PDF viewer only...)

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OR... use Xee
Authored by: gaijintendo on Mar 07, '06 02:54:06PM

No idea about Xee, but the idea is that people commonly save their slides as pdfs. and preview is there, out of the box and does a fine job with the PDFs.

but I will look into Xee seeing as I monkey around with images all day long!



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OR... use Xee
Authored by: jmallen on Mar 08, '06 02:01:41AM

The same or similar large controls are in iPhoto slideshow.
I compained to Apple about them last year.
There is this enormous tacky rectangle that comes and goes with mouse movement and is very distracting. And who wants to rate their slides during a show.




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Remove Preview's slideshow controller graphics
Authored by: LoB on Mar 08, '06 04:48:09AM
Or you can use... Cellulo. You just have to disable the auto-play option and it is, by the way, the perfect PDF full-screen viewer for presentation purposes. LoB

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