When I open a PDF file that was viewed days ago, Preview will open the first page.
However, when I close it and open it again right now, it will open the right (last viewed) page.
The option Start on the last viewed page was checked.
Preview won’t remember the last viewed page of PDF
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This works for me on Mountain Lion:
Open all the JPG's in Preview so that the files are selectable within the one window, i.e. thumbnails of the JPG's are viewable in the selection pane located the window's left side.
Click in the selection pane and select all the thumbnails with Cmd-A.
Select File > Print... from the menu bar.
Select PDF > (from the drop down) Save as PDF... from within the Print Dialog.
Take it from there...
To stop only Preview from doing this open up Terminal.app and enter:
defaults write com.apple.Preview NSQuitAlwaysKeepsWindows -bool false
To re-enable this at any time enter:
defaults write com.apple.Preview NSQuitAlwaysKeepsWindows -bool true
If you want to turn off the resume-on-load feature for all applications you can go to System Preferences -> General and at the bottom of the screen uncheck the option Restore windows when quitting and re-opening apps to prevent any application from doing this.
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Best Answer
Upgrade from Yosemite to El Captain could mess up the preference files. Delete the folder /Users/{user name}/Library/Containers/com.apple.Preview to reset settings.