How to reduce the size of a pdf document in OS X - Macintosh How To. Mar 09 Depending on what program you used to create a PDF, the file size of your PDF file can be quite large. If you combine two or three PDF files together using preview, you can also end up with a bloated PDF file. The best way to reduce PDF file size is with Acrobat professional, which can do all sorts of magic on PDF files. But here is a free way to make a PDF file smaller. Firstly, open the PDF file in ColorSync utility. The ColorSync utility is found in the utility folder of the applications folder of your computer. If you don’t know how to find that, simply right click ( or option click if you have a one button mouse) on the PDF file, and select from the menu open with, ColorSync utility. This will open your PDF file in colour sync utility. Select the filter that says reduce file size This will go through and re-compress the images in your PDF to make the file size smaller.
How to combine multiple pdf files with OS X Mavericks 10.9 - Macintosh How To. With every release of OS X Apple seems to slightly change the way to merge two pdf documents. I’ve previously written on how to merge 2 pdf files in Mountain Lion (10.8) and how to merge two pdf files in Lion or earlier. Here’s how to do it in OS X 10.9 Mavericks. John has just posted a much easier method of doing this in a comment below. Thanks John, here it is: 1. Double click your first pdf document to open it with Preview, the built in mac OSX. 2. 3. After this… You can delete pages by selecting the page in the page thumbnails and pressing delete. You can rearrange pages by selecting the page in the page thumbnails and dragging it up or down.
Whatever changes you make will be saved when you select ‘Save’ Make sure all files are pdf files…if you’re using .doc files, save them as pdf first. Here’s the original method I outlined… 1. Here are two pdf files on my desktop that I’d like to merge. 2. Turn on ‘Thumbnails’ view 3. Here’s what this looks like: 4. ‘page 1 of 2′ – it merged!
5. 6. How to merge two pdf files in OSX 10.6 - 10.8 - Macintosh How To. Combining pdf documents on an Apple computer is easy. The OSX built in preview application has the ability to merge two different pdf documents together and even move pdf pages within a pdf file. For all versions of OS X prior to Mountain Lion (that is Leopard, Snow Leopard, Lion) just follow the instructions below. Things have changed a little with Mountain Lion so I’ve made a new post on merging two pdfs in Mountain Lion, and there’s another slight change with OSX 10.9 Mavericks. There are lots of websites offering to sell software to merge PDF files, but you don’t need a third party program to do it – it’s built right in to OS X for free.
OS X has a bilt in free application called ‘Preview’ that opens automatically whenever you click on a pdf file. To join two or more pdf files together using Preview simply open the pdf file in preview, open the thumbnail view (Shift-⌘-D), and then drag a second pdf ON TOP OF an existing page thumbnail. Here’s how to do it step by step. 1. 2. 3. CustoMac. Adding a cover to a book in iBooks | Apple Support Communities. Tested and working: How to edit iBooks meta data under Mac OS X Mavericks First of all, I GOT THIS FROM ANOTHER SOURCE. I take no credit nor responsibility. Edit metadata with Calibre for Mac Although edit metadata with iBooks is impossible, it doesn't mean this is the end of the story. With another software, Calibre for Mac, we can edit book's metadata then load the book into iBooks for Mac app. First we import the book into Calibre and delete it from iBooks Right click on the book title, choose "Edit metadata", then "Edit metadata individually".
In this window we can customize almost all the important metadata, including adding a cover to the book After you finish the editing, click "OK" to confirm. But job is not finished yet, in fact the editing is only done in Calibre's library. So the last step is to convert the book to EPUB, even this file is already an EPUB file.
I have tried this and it works!!! How to compress in RAR without WinRar... | Stuff For Life. Edit: New file links to repair broken ones. Procedure for OS X Lion added ! Well something I miss a lot from my Windows days is an easy and efficient way to compress my data. Back on Windows, I was a heavy user of Rar compression and a big fan of WinRar. On Mac OS X, the most easy way to compress data is to use the built-in zip feature. That's fairly easy: in the Finder just right click on any folder(s) or file(s) and you should have the option to compress and create an archive in the contextual right click menu. That's pretty useful but you compress in the zip format and this is not the best way to save to compress in terms of space and you can not configure anything.
So what I want is an easy way to compress in the Rar format because I came to like the compression rate and the power of this file format. Download the command line Rar for Mac OS X from Rarsoft here (more specific scripts can be found below). OK that's it... Downgrade mountain lion to lion. The Life of Ken » Blog Archive » Getting iStat Pro Widget Working on Mountain Lion Again. How to Invert the Mac Screen Colors in OS X Mountain Lion. Inverting the colors of a Mac display is a fairly common accessibility feature, and it’s also pretty handy for when you’re reading at night because it puts most screen text into a white on black mode like iOS.
Prior versions of Mac OS X let you invert the display by hitting the Command+Option+Control+8 keyboard shortcut, but OS X Mavericks and Mountain Lion have changed that. From 10.8, 10.9, onward you’ll need to do the following instead: Hit Command+Option+F5 to bring up Accessibility OptionsCheck the box next to “Invert Display Colors” The display change is immediate. Note the actual colors drawn on screen are not being changed, it’s only the display of them that has been inverted.
This means if you take a screenshot it will still display as usual, and colors chosen in a color picker will remain their original choice. To disable the inverse display coloration and get back to normal, just hit Command+Option+F5 again and uncheck the invert box. How to convert audio and video files for free. Scenario: You’ve obtained an audio or video file that’s either in a format unsupported by the device you intend to play it on—an iOS device, traditional iPod, or your Mac, for example—or in a form that you’d prefer to not use (large AIFF or WAV audio files, for example).
There are scads of utilities you can use to convert media files (and some of them aren’t marketed by spammers), but what might you use when you want something converted quickly, without a lot of fuss and bother, and that costs nary a nickel? Try these on for size: Audio and video OS X Lion An operating system? Yes. For audio files you have these options: High Quality (128kbps, 44.1kHz, AAC), iTunes Plus (256kbps, 44.1kHz, AAC), Apple Lossless, Spoken Podcast (ABR, 22.05kHz, AAC). Select the option you want, click the Continue button at the bottom of the window, and your file is converted. Automator If the previous option sounds good to you but you can’t use it because you haven’t upgraded to Lion, there’s still hope. Tutorials.