MacOS – Two page continuous view in Lion Preview

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Is there some way to get back the side-by-side page view from Snow Leopard with the continuous scrolling? From the View menu in Lion Preview, it appears they're mutually exclusive now. I can't help shake the idea that Lion was designed by someone without a desktop Mac.

Best Answer

This is one of those things that really makes me wonder "If it's not broken why fix it?".

Other than switching to another application that might give you back the lost functionality, I only have one suggestion at the moment. This is how I've been able to use Preview (5.5) and still get two page (side by side) continuous scrolling:

  1. Open up your pdf, document, etc. in Preview.app

  2. File > Print or P

  3. In the Print Dialog Box click Preview > Change to Layout [ 2 pages ]

  4. Lastly, click PDF > Open PDF in Preview.

You should now see your document layout as two pages and you can scroll continuously. I realize it's far from ideal, although it is a way to still use Preview exclusively, yet still have similar functionality as before. I hope they will fix it; I shouldn't have to be thinking of ways like this to use it like it could have been. ;-)

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