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User

23.08.2006 20:08:59

Pg Up/Pg Down for Preview.app

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I'd like to use Remote Buddy and the Preview application as a PDF reader.

However, I tend to magnify the PDF, so the entire page is not visible at once - so I can't use the "Next Page" "Previous Page" commands.

Being able to trigger the keyboard's "Page Up" and "Page Down" keys would be what I need from within Preview, but those are not among the preset actions.

Is there some way I can add those? And additionally could those be added to the default list in future versions of Remote Buddy?

Thanks.

These entries from the FAQ may be relevant to this topic:

Configuration

How do I add a new action to a Behaviour - f.ex. an emulated key press or AppleScript? (FAQ015E0153)
1) Open the Remote Buddy Preferences via the pulldown-menu and choose "Mapping".
2) Choose the mapping you want to modify.
3) Select "Custom actions" for the button you want to map to an action of your own.
4) Create the action you need using the appearing editor.

Hardware - Apple® Remote

After uninstalling/quitting Remote Buddy, my Mac® no longer reacts to the Apple® Remote. (FAQ015E0241)
To enable you to use all capabilities of the IR Receiver of your Mac®, Remote Buddy is using its own driver. In contrast, all other applications with integrated Apple® Remote support usually use the OS X Apple® Remote subsystem.

As long as you're running Remote Buddy, Remote Buddy and its driver are responsible for turning the received button presses into actions. As soon as you quit Remote Buddy, this task is again handled by the OS X Apple® Remote subsystem.

If other applications don't use the interface to the OS X Apple® Remote subsystem correctly, this can lead to the effect that nothing happens when you press a button on your Apple® Remote. For as long as you're running Remote Buddy, issues like this are covered by Remote Buddy and it's driver and are therefore not visible to you. However, as soon as you quit Remote Buddy, the OS X Apple® Remote subsystem is back in control and any issues caused in it by other applications become visible.

Therefore Remote Buddy is neither the cause of the issue nor is it responsible for it. Instead, the cause of the issue exists independently of Remote Buddy. It's located elsewhere and can also only be solved there.

Although our products can't cause any such issues, we're regularly contacted about such issues and asked for help. In order to make locating and fixing the cause of such issues as easy and efficient as possible, we've developed a free diagnostics tool: Remote Control Diagnostics. It can locate issues with a single click and will provide you with information about the issue as well as with instructions on how you can fix it.

User

04.09.2006 22:57:02

Re: Pg Up/Pg Down for Preview.app

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This posting is older than 6 months and can contain outdated information.

Hello James,

sorry for the late reply. Your posting did scroll out of focus in
Mail and I only found out that there's no reply to your post now that
I looked over the forum directly on the website.

Regarding your question:

The "Page up" and "Page down" keys are already triggered by the
Preview behaviour for its "Next page" and "Previous page" actions. By
default they are mapped to the left and right buttons on the remote.

Hope that helps.

Best regards,
Felix

User

08.09.2006 22:21:41

Re: Pg Up/Pg Down for Preview.app

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Felix,

Thank you for the reply - but the keyboard "Page Up" and "Page Down" have a different behavior in Preview than "Next Page" / "Previous Page".

To see the difference:
1. Open a multi-page PDF in preview.
2. Zoom In on the PDF until the entire page doesn't fit in the window - scroll windows appear.
3. Using "Page Up" / "Page Down" on the keyboard it will scroll down the page first, and then move to the next page as necessary. (This is what I want)
4. "Next Page" / "Previous Page" jumps to the top of the next/previous page, and doesn't scroll through the rest of the page.

Since I'd like to sit back from the computer and read the PDF, I need to zoom in pretty far (thus the need for the remote). So a "Page Up" / "Page Down" option would be great.

Thanks!

User

11.09.2006 10:30:47

Re: Pg Up/Pg Down for Preview.app

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Hi,

my name is matthias, i am a new user to remote buddy. i am pretty satisfied with the application, just wanted to let you developers know, that i am facing just the same problem and would also regard it an extremely useful feature if i could emulate the scrolling function in preview-application.

thanks

matthias

Felix,

Thank you for the reply - but the keyboard "Page Up" and "Page Down" have a different behavior in Preview than "Next Page" / "Previous Page".

Since I'd like to sit back from the computer and read the PDF, I need to zoom in pretty far (thus the need for the remote). So a "Page Up" / "Page Down" option would be great.

Thanks!

User

12.09.2006 01:46:02

Re: Re: Pg Up/Pg Down for Preview.app

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Hello James, hello Matthias,

thanks for the explainations. Preview 7 does now have what you are
looking for (scroll up / down actions).

Enjoy! :-)

Felix

User

14.09.2006 11:54:00