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Good alternative PDF viewers?

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#1 ·
Preview is driving me up all the wall with not having a Print Actual Size option in Preview, so I have to manually enter 100%. I have to print quite a few plan drawings each day that need to be scaled 1:1 and it's rather annoying.

Thanks!
 
#3 ·
Does Adobe Reader still exist for Mac?

But as IllusionX says, I would think you're stuck with Apple's print utility.
 
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#6 ·
If you ever need to do more than view PDFs, consider PDFPen or PDFPen Pro:

PDFpen: Mac PDF Editor - Edit, Sign, and Correct PDFs

Although this isn't a free solution, it's 'way cheaper than Adobe Acrobat and has much of the same functionality - create and edit PDFs, create and fill in PDF forms, etc. The Pro version even does OCR.
If I am reading that correctly the straight version does OCR.

Wonder how the OCR compares to the ABBYY fine reader. Abby does a really good job but If I recall is priced up around $100, which is more than my modest needs can justify.
 
#11 ·
I'm not sure this suggestion will solve your problem, But..

In Preview, If you right click on the image, you get a dialog box which allows you to choose;
Automatically Resize (which seems to fit image to page)
Zoom in/out
Actual size
and select single page or two pages/continuous

Also in preview preferences you can modify how the images display which may give you the print size you require.

Choose Preview > Preferences.

To choose how to display PDF files, click PDF and use one of the options under “Define 100% scale as.”

To display a PDF at the same dimensions regardless of the screen’s resolution, select “Size on screen equals size on printout.”

To display a PDF at different dimensions depending on the screen’s resolution, select “1 image pixel equals 1 screen pixel.”

To choose how to display images, click Images and use one of the options under “Define 100% scale as.”

To display the image at the same dimensions regardless of the screen’s resolution, select “Size on screen equals size on printout.”

To display an image at different dimensions depending on the screen’s resolution, select “1 image pixel equals 1 screen pixel.”

Just a suggestion, hope this helps
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#12 ·
Great reminder about these prefs!

However, no luck then with Preview and 100%. I also have Acrobat Pro X and there the option is 'actual size' but, again, it is not the default option and you cannot set it in preferences. So Acrobat won't do it either...
 
#13 ·
Ugghhhh I hate Adobe Reader for Mac! It's even worse. Can't easily configure print settings, it's so confusing. And it took over my browsers and doesn't display some PDFs correctly and it doesn't save forms.

I'm going to stick with the Windows version of Adobe Reader to print large scale drawings and Preview to preview/fill out forms.
 
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