{"id":9812,"date":"2014-09-27T05:06:46","date_gmt":"2014-09-26T19:06:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/wordpress\/?p=9812"},"modified":"2014-09-27T05:06:46","modified_gmt":"2014-09-26T19:06:46","slug":"mac-preview-annotation-primer-tutorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/mac-preview-annotation-primer-tutorial\/","title":{"rendered":"Mac Preview Annotation Primer Tutorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 230px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a target=_blank href=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Mac\/Preview\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; border: 15px solid pink;\" alt=\"Mac Preview Annotation Primer Tutorial\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Mac\/Preview\/Preview_Annotation-10of.jpg\" title=\"Mac Preview Annotation Primer Tutorial\"  \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mac Preview Annotation Primer Tutorial<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Mac OS X application called Preview is a very useful tool and its name explains it quite well in that:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>it creates output like you&#8217;d see in a Print Preview scenario, before you okay it for hardcopy printing<\/li>\n<li>it accepts many data formats as input, like shown today with the spreadsheet (taken from previous <a target=_blank title='Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet Primer Tutorial' href='http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/wordpress\/?p=7745'>Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet Primer Tutorial<\/a>), it is capable of opening, and represents this in a report style (ie. the spreadsheet read today can not be amended in each cell once you are in Preview)<\/li>\n<li>it allows the user to add annotations to its PDF output, as we do, here, with our tutorial<\/li>\n<li>it creates PDF and so is creating:<\/li>\n<ol>\n<li>web ready data<\/li>\n<li>hardcopy friendly output<\/li>\n<li>data with fidelity (should this be a requirement &#8230; have a read of <a target=_blank href='http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/wordpress\/?p=4915' href='Document Fidelity Primer Tutorial'>Document Fidelity Primer Tutorial<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As you can see, Preview&#8217;s annotation feature can make it very useful as a way to explain an issue in a web (via PDF) or hardcopy presentation as a simpler alternative to a Powerpoint presentation perhaps.<\/p>\n<p>So, <a target=_blank href=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Mac\/Preview\/\" title='Click picture'>today<\/a>, here is a tutorial that shows you some importing of spreadsheet data into Preview, the addition of some annotation, the saving to PDF, the emailing of that PDF, and the uploading of the resultant email attachment to Google Drive (where a cycle of Google Drive\/email attachment editing can mean this document never has to land back at your laptop desktop\/disk from then on, should you want to work that way).<\/p>\n<p>Link to the output PDF of this tutorial &#8230; <a target=_blank href='http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Mac\/Preview\/Microsoft_Excel_Spreadsheet_Primer_Tutorial.pdf' title='Preview information via Apple'>Microsoft_Excel_Spreadsheet_Primer_Tutorial.pdf<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Link to Preview information &#8230; <a target=_blank href='http:\/\/support.apple.com\/kb\/HT2506' title='Preview information via Apple'>from Apple<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If this was interesting you may be interested in <a title='Click here to see topics in which you might be interested' href='#d9812' onclick='var dv=document.getElementById(\"d9812\"); dv.innerHTML = \"&lt;iframe width=670 height=600 src=\" + \"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/wordpress\/?tag=PDF\" + \"&gt;&lt;\/iframe&gt;\"; dv.style.display = \"block\";'>this<\/a> too.<\/p>\n<div id='d9812' style='display: none; border-left: 2px solid green; border-top: 2px solid green;'><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mac OS X application called Preview is a very useful tool and its name explains it quite well in that: it creates output like you&#8217;d see in a Print Preview scenario, before you okay it for hardcopy printing it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/mac-preview-annotation-primer-tutorial\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,12,29,37],"tags":[111,292,350,380,503,513,523,554,723,725,913,983,1319],"class_list":["post-9812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-data-integration","category-elearning","category-operating-system","category-tutorials","tag-attachment","tag-data-integration-2","tag-document-fidelity","tag-email","tag-gmail","tag-google","tag-google-drive","tag-hardcopy","tag-mac","tag-mac-os-x","tag-pdf","tag-preview","tag-tutorial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9812"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}