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Disable drawer thumbnails in Preview.app
Authored by: simX on Aug 23, '07 09:46:32AM

Replace the 5 steps with this single Terminal command:

defaults write com.apple.Preview PVGeneralThumbnailSize 0



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Disable drawer thumbnails in Preview.app
Authored by: Anonymous on Aug 23, '07 02:42:41PM

This is the preferred solution.

Using the Property List Editor is appropriate if you want to examine the entire file at once.

Using a text editor is definitely not the way to go, unless you know exactly what you're doing. In fact, that should be a hint in itself: "Edit preference files using a text editor", and certainly not the first option given in a hint.



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Disable drawer thumbnails in Preview.app
Authored by: Anonymous on Aug 23, '07 03:00:18PM
...except, because the key in question is a child of the "Preview" key, you need to do this instead:
    defaults write com.apple.Preview Preview -dict-add PVGeneralThumbnailSize 0
And to set back to the default value:
    defaults write com.apple.Preview Preview -dict-add PVGeneralThumbnailSize 60
An alternate method is to go into Preview's preferences, go to the PDF tab, and check "Open drawer only for Table of Contents". This way, the drawer isn't opened up for every single PDF you open.

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