So I'm not at all impressed with the "Continuous" view in Preview, that seems to be the default way PDFs are opened. Is there a way to change the Preview.app preferences in such a way as to set "Single Page" as the default?
Setting Preview Default to Single Page
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A preference for changing the default view mode was added in 10.8:
I don't know any way to change the default view mode in 10.7.
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:
Open up your pdf, document, etc. in Preview.app
File > Print or ⌘P
In the Print Dialog Box click Preview > Change to Layout [ 2 pages ]
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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Best Answer
In Mountain Lion, at least, there's a
Opening for the first timeentry in the PDF pane in Preferences, where you can selectSingle Page. This sets the default view mode for all PDF files.If you for some reason can't get it to work, you could try this Terminal command (don't know if it will work in Lion) and restart Preview:
defaults write -app preview kPVPDFDefaultPageViewModeOption -int 1(in ML, the value of
kPVPDFDefaultPageViewModeOptionchanges to1in Preview's plist, when selecting Single Page)