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10.4: Finder slideshows are a designer's best friend
Authored by: gmartin on May 13, '05 02:01:17PM

For keyboard lovers out there, while in a Finder slideshow, pressing "i" will take you to the index of thumbnails; cursor keys to move forward/back or navigate in the index page; space-bar to play/pause or select an image in the index page; pressing "a" will display the image in actual size; pressing "f" will display the image full screen; the usual "esc" to exit. Interestingly "l" and "r" seemed to be mapped keys also but I haven't discovered their use yet.

Using the slideshow from Preview is almost an identical experience except that you can play PDF's as a slideshow, PDF's can't be shown as an index of thumbnails, only image files can be shown as an index. Preview also has an extra button in the slideshow pop-up for moving the currently viewed image (again not PDF) over to iPhoto.

Finally, if you hate the pop-up appearing as you navigate, and you have a PDF presentation in Preview, just click once on the background area and then leave the mouse alone - the keyboard navigation will now work without making the pop-up re-appear.

Finally, finally, Preview has some extra preferences for it's default behavior. Notably: Open all images in one window; open groups of images in single window; open each image in it's own window. If you have several/many images in a single window you can simply drag reorder them in the draw to make any fickle sequence you may want it to be in today ;-)



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10.4: Finder slideshows are a designer's best friend
Authored by: bgagnon on Jul 30, '05 06:39:17PM

I think I know what the l and r keys are for: rotation. In an application where rotating images is permitted (iphoto ? mail ?), l would rotate to the left and r to the right. Haven't tested this, though.



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