How To Read Pdf On Macbook Pro

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The Macbook Pro is a very powerful laptop; one that can increase your productivity many times over. But it can also be a bit complicated, especially if you're used to working in a Windows environment. In this article, we've put together 10 useful tips that will accelerate your familiarity with this sleek, state-of-the-art block of aluminum. Apr 18, 2019 Read on for some options to apply OCR to PDFs on Mac. Apple's Mac lineup consists of MacBook, MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, iMac, Mac Pro, and Mac Mini. The Mac runs macOS for its operating system.

Explore the Book Store

Search for and purchase books from a variety of categories and genres from the Book Store.

Browse books on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch

  1. Open the Books app and tap Book Store at the bottom of the screen.
  2. Browse the top charts or books recommended for you. Or tap Browse Sections to see book store sections like Coming Soon or genres like Young Adult or Nonfiction. You can also tap the Search tab to search for specific titles, authors, narrators, and more.
  3. Tap a book. You can tap Sample to read a preview of the book, or tap Want to Read to add it to your Want to Read list in the Reading Now tab.

You can tap Buy and confirm the purchase of your book. All of your books, book series, PDFs, and audiobooks that you've purchased from the Book Store or Audiobook Store or manually added to your device appear under the Library tab.

Browse books on your Mac

  1. Open the Books app and click Book Store at the top of the window.
  2. In the sidebar, click Top Charts, The New York Times, or Top Authors to browse for books. Or click Categories to see genres like Comics & Graphic Novels, History, or Mysteries & Thrillers. You can also use the Search option in the upper-right corner.
  3. Click a book. Then you can click Get Sample to read a preview of the book before buying.

You can click Buy and confirm the purchase of your book. All of your books, book series, PDFs, and audiobooks that you've purchased from the Book Store or Audiobook Store or manually added to your Mac appear in your Library tab under the All Books tab in the sidebar .

Read books

Tap or double-click a book to open it and start reading. If you close the book, Apple Books saves your place for you. Controls are available to customize your reading experience and annotate passages. You can also search for a specific word or page number and create bookmarks to view later.

Control your reading on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch

Tap the center of your screen on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch to open and close the controls while reading. You can tap the Table of Contents button to skip to a different chapter or section, see bookmarks you've added, and view highlights and notes you've made.

How to partition a hard drive on macbook pro. Learn how to adjust font sizes and brightness, take notes, and create bookmarks.

Control your reading on your Mac

To view the controls when you're reading on your Mac, move your pointer to the top of the book. You can click the Table of Contents button to skip to a different chapter or section. To skip to a bookmarked page, click the the down arrow next to the Bookmark button .

Learn how to highlight and take notes or change a book's appearance.

Manage your library

Organize the books in your library, and download a book to read offline. If you need to remove any downloaded items, you can delete books and audiobooks from your devices.

Download books on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch

  1. Find the item in your library. Don't see the book that you want?
  2. Tap the book to open it and download it automatically. You can also tap the More button below the book and choose Download.
  3. If the book is part of a series, first tap to open the series, then tap the download button under the book that you want.

Organize your library on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch

  1. Tap Library.
  2. Under Collections, tap the word next to Sort. If you don't see Sort, swipe down on your screen to have the option appear.
  3. From the menu that appears, choose Recent, Title, Author, or Manually. You can also sort other collections. For example, go to Collections > Audiobooks to sort your audiobooks by author.

Click the List View button to view your books as a list instead of a grid.

Download books on your Mac

  1. Find the item in your library. Don't see the book that you want?
  2. Click the cloud icon in the upper-right corner. If you don't see the cloud icon, the book is already downloaded to your device.
  3. If the book is part of a series, first double-click to open the series, then click the cloud icon on the book that you want to download.

Organize your library on your Mac

  1. Click All Books in the left sidebar.
  2. Click Sort By in the upper-right corner.
  3. Choose Most Recent, Title, or Sort Manually.

Click the List View button to view your books as a list instead of a grid.

If you don't see a book

If you don't see a book that you purchased from the Book Store in your library, here are some things you can try.

Update your device

Make sure that you're using the latest version of iOS or iPadOS on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch, or the latest version of macOS on your Mac.

Turn on iCloud on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch

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  1. Open the Settings app.
  2. Tap [your name] > iCloud
  3. Turn on both iCloud Drive and Books.
  4. Then go to Settings > Books. Under Syncing, turn on iCloud Drive.

Download all of your books on your Mac

  1. Click the Book Store tab at the top of the window.
  2. In the sidebar, click Featured.
  3. Under Quick Links, click Purchased.
  4. Click the Download All button in the lower-right corner.

Redownload or unhide your books

Redownload books to add books that you previously deleted back to your library.

Unhide books if you previously hid those purchases.

Discover more ways to read

  • You can listen to audiobooks in the Books app on your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, or Mac. Or use iTunes on a PC.
  • Read storybooks aloud with iBooks Storytime on Apple TV.
  • You can save copies of PDFs from emails and webpages into the Books app.
  • You can also add DRM-free EPUB file format books, iBooks Author books, books that you create with Pages, MP3 audiobooks, AAC audiobooks, and Audible.com audiobooks to your library.

I love my MacBook Pro since the day I bough it. It has made my life so much easier and all of my work life depend on this 13-inch beast. I switched to a Mac just a couple years back and so far I have been happy with the operating systems. Since I was a little late to the party, in my quest to learn the macOS operating system, I dove deep inside to find the best tips and tricks that can help me get work done. Over the years, I also discovered some tips on my own. So, in this article, I wanted to share my top 20 MacBook Pro tips and tricks that are going to make your life easier.

MacBook Pro Tips and Tricks to Use in 2020

I have divided this article into three sections: beginner, intermediate, and advanced. If you find the tips to be too easy in the beginner section, you can move onto other sections to learn more advanced tips.

Best Beginner Mac Tips and Tricks

1. Quick Look

Quick Look is one of the most used features on my Mac. Once you make using this a habit, half of the time you will not have to open any file as it allows you to see the content of a file without opening it. To perform the quick look Action, all you need to do is to select your file and tap the space bar once. For example, you can select a PDF and hit the space bar to quickly scan the content of the PDF without even opening it. That said, this feature does have its limitations.

The preview that Quick Look can show you depends on the file you are trying to preview. If it's a document or an image file, Quick Look will allow you to see the whole content of the file as shown in the pictures below. However, if it's a folder or an eBook it will only show you superficial information such as the file size and last modified date. Once you learn where the Quick look is helpful and where it's not, the feature will come really handy.

2. Force Quit Apps

While one of the benefits of using a Mac is that you rarely have any app which goes unresponsive, there are sometimes that it will happen, and when it happens, you will need to know how to force quit them. While on Windows you must be habituated to type Ctrl+Alt+Delete, the keyboard shortcut for force quitting on Mac is a little different. The keyboard combo that you need to hit is - Cmd+Opt+Esc (command, option, and escape key).

Once you hit the combo, 'Force Quit Application' box will open in a floating window. Here, you can just select the app which is misbehaving and click on the Force Quit button. If the keyboard combo is a little hard for you to remember, you can use an alternate method. Click on the Apple Menu at the top left corner and you will find the Force Quit option.

3. Perform Faster App Search in Spotlight

This is a very quick and handy tip. Whenever you are searching for an in Spotlight, typing the initials of the app will bring the results faster than typing its whole name. For example, if I want to search for App Store, I will simply type the letters a and s. Once you make this a habit, you will perform faster app searches and save time a few keystrokes at a time.

4. Use Spotlight for Weather, Definition, Conversions, and Calculations

Over the years Spotlight has evolved from being just a search mechanism for Mac. Now, you can use it to perform many functions. For example, you can use Spotlight for carrying out currency and unit conversions. I use it almost daily to convert measurements, currency, and more. You can also use Spotlight to perform simple mathematical calculations including multiplication, division, addition, subtraction, and more. Similarly, you can use Spotlight to get weather information of any city in the world. Type the word weather followed by the city name and it will give you the current weather condition. You can also find word definitions. Type the word and hit the '⌘+L' keyboard shortcut to pull up the definition of that word.

5. Access Emoji Keyboard

This is a fun one. If you love to use emojis, there's an easy way to call the emoji keyboard on your mac. To do that, hit the keyboard combo Cmd+Ctrl+Space and the emoji keyboard will open. Here you can scroll down to find the emoji you want to use. You can also perform a search to find the one you want to.

6. Show File Path in Finder

macOS focuses on keeping the user interface clean and simple. And while it makes sense, sometimes it hinders usability. For example, one thing that irks me about macOS is that it doesn't show the file path by default. So, if you search for a file in Spotlight and open its location, you will not be able to figure out how to reach that location.

Thankfully, there's a handy keyboard shortcut that can enable the file path. If you want to see a file's location path, hit the 'Cmd+Opt+P' keyboard shortcut and it will display the file path. If you forget this keyboard shortcut, you can find it using the 'View' menu as shown in the picture below.

7. Keep Search Restricted to a Folder

One of the most infuriating thing about performing search in a Finder window on Mac is that it initiates the search for the entire Mac. It makes no sense but that's how it has been since ages. Thankfully, you can change this behavior in the Finder Preferences. So, open Finder Preference (⌘,) → Advanced and under 'when performing a search' option click on the dropdown menu to select 'Search the current folder'. It is going to save you a lot of grief in the future.

8. Minutely Adjust the Volume and Brightness

As you know, we can use the keyboard shortcuts to adjust brightness and volume on your Mac devices (F1 & F2 for brightness and F11 & F12 for volume), the control they provide is not good enough for me. That's because the first few steps barely make any change while the last few steps do too much. I like to control my volume and brightness a little more minutely.

If you also want to do that, first hold down the option and the shift key and then use the volume or brightness keys to make the adjustment. A single press will result in an increment or reduction of a quarter of bar instead of the full bar which happens if you don't use the option and the shift key. If you look at the pictures below carefully, you can spot the quarter increment.

9. Move Files with Cut and Paste

Coming from Windows, it really frustrated me a lot when I was not able to use cut and paste command with the keyboard. Cmd+C works for copying but there's no Cmd+X for performing the Cut Action. If you are a Mac user who doesn't know what the Cut Action is, let me explain it to you. While using the Cmd+C or the Copy Action can help you copy files from one place to another, the cut Action allows you to do the same thing with one major difference.

The difference is that the Copy Action keeps the original file or text in place and creates a duplicate of that file whereas, the cut Action moves the original file and doesn't create a duplicate.To perform the Cut Action on a Mac, first, copy the file using ⌘C (Cmd+C) combo. Now open the location where you want to paste the file and hit ⌘⌥V (Cmd+Opt+V) instead of ⌘V (Cmd+V).

Performing the Cut Action: Copy (Cmd+C) → Paste (Cmd+Option+V)

10. Trash Files in Seconds

This is a simple Mac tip that can save you time. When you have to delete an item on your Mac, you usually either drag it to the Trash in your dock or right-click on the file and select the 'Move to Trash' option. Well, there's a keyboard shortcut which can save you the trouble of doing these things. To easily trash a file, just click on it and then hit the '⌘+Delete' keyboard shortcut and it will move to Trash. If you want to skip trashing a file and permanently delete it, use the '⌘+⌥+Delete' keyboard shortcut. Remember, this will permanently delete a file and you will not be able to recover it.

11. Remember the Word

This is a simple tip that can save you a lot of searches. There are times when we remember a word but don't exactly remember the spelling. The first way to solve this problem is to fully type the word and then right-click on it and hope that the system knows what we are typing. The second way is to Google the word and it will most definitely tell you what word you might be thinking. The third and easiest way is to type the spelling to the point that you remember and then hit the 'Fn+F5' keyboard shortcut. It will give you a list of the word right there and you can select the one you want to use.

MacBook Pro Tips and Tricks: Intermediate Level

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12. Master the Hot Corners

Hot Corners are one of the most under-appreciated features of macOS. Either people don't know about them or they just don't find it useful. For me, Hot Corners is a feature which I can't live without. Using Hot Corners feature, a user can assign different actions to each of the corners of the display. Dragging your mouse pointer to that corner will execute that action. For example, Ihave assigned the top-left corner of the display to show my desktop when I trigger it.

So whenever there are a lot of windows open on my desktop and I want to grab a file to attach or do any other thing which requires me to look at my desktop, I just drag my cursor to the top-left corner and I am done. It's up to you how you want to use the four corners of your desktop, but once you make using them a habit, you will speed up your workflow many folds. The picture below shows all the actions that I have assigned and am using Hot Corners for. To set-up a Hot Corner all you need to do is to follow the following path:

Apple Menu System Preferences Desktop & Screen Saver Screen Saver Hot Corners

13. Quickly Access Folders Using the Go Menu and Shortcuts

Another underappreciated feature which can greatly increase your workflow speed is the Go Menu which is present in the Menu bar in the default mode. You can use the Go Menu to easily access folders without first opening the Finder window. If you put in some effort to remember the shortcuts mentioned in the Go Menu, you don't even need to use the Go Menu, and can directly use the keyboard shortcuts to open a window. For example, if I have to open my Downloads folder, I simply tap the keyboard command ⌥⌘L (Opt+Cmd+L). The picture below shows all the other keyboard shortcuts which you might want to learn.

14. Using the Delete Key Both Ways

Users who have just switched to Mac from Windows will surely appreciate this feature. Windows has two keys for deleting texts which are Backspace and Delete. The Backspace button deletes the text which is behind the cursor while the Delete button deletes the text which is in front of the cursor. However, macOS only comes with the Delete key. What's even more confusing is the fact that the Delete key on macOS works as the Backspace key on Windows.

However, there is a way you can use the Delete key both ways i.e. use the Delete key to delete the text both before and in front of the cursor.To delete the text in front of the cursor, a user needs to hold on to the 'fn' key while hitting the delete key. You don't need to hold the function key if you just want to delete the text before the cursor.

15. Smartly Navigate Text and Use Smart Text Selection

Most of use the left-right-up-down arrow key to navigate the text. But a surprising number of Mac users don't know about the keyboard navigation modifiers that make navigating the text a breeze. You can use these navigation modifiers to move not only by a character but also by word, by line, by paragraph, and even move to the beginning and end of the text. Here are the navigation modifiers that you need to remember. Easy movie maker software, free download.

  • ⌥ + ←/→ = move cursor by word instead of by character
  • ⌥ + ↑/↓ = move cursor by paragraph
  • ⌘ + ←/→ = move cursor to beginning/end of line
  • ⌘ + ↑/↓ = move cursor to beginning/end of all text

Similarly, when selecting text, just add the Shift button to this combo. For example, if you use ⌘+Shift+→ shortcut, you will select the whole line in front of your cursor. Using these shortcuts is an easy way to navigate and select text.

16. Create Text Clipping

It's an old but useful feature that not many people know about. On your Mac, you can select any text (works on most apps) and drag it to your Desktop or a Finder window to create a simple text clipping with .txt file format. This feature is helpful when you want to create a summary of an article or want to save important snippets from a book. Using the text clipping is also pretty easy. You can either double-click on the file to open it and copy from there, or you can directly drag and drop the file in any document and it will paste the text at the cursor head. Note that when you are clipping a text, it preserves the rich-text format. That means any text formatting and links are preserved.

17. Rename Multiple Items at Once

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This one might not be useful for everyone but it can be a lifesaver for someone who really needs it. As the heading suggests, you can rename multiple files on your Mac in a single action. I take a lot of screenshots on a daily basis, and renaming them in batches saves me a lot of time. To rename multiple files at once, first, select all the files and then right click (control + click / secondary click). From the right-click menu, select the 'Rename multiple items' option, as shown in the picture below.

A popup menu will open. Here select the option shown in the picture below and enter the name you want to use in the custom name field. Since I am using this as a test, I will just use the word test. Now, click on the Rename button. Now, all the files will be renamed using the word test followed by a number. (Test1, Test2, Test3, and so on). This feature will save a lot of your time when you need to crudely rename files for organizing them.

18. Organize Your Files With Tags and Stacks

While we are on the topic of organizing files, I want to show you how you can easily organize and access files using tags and stacks. In its most basic forms tags are colored dots which can be assigned to any file or folder. If you open your Finder window, you will see a Tags menu in the left bar. Once you assign a tag to a file, it can be quickly accessed by clicking on its respective tag in the Finder window.

This is extremely helpful if you want to access multiple files in a place without moving them outside their parent folder. For example, I will assign the Red tag to all the screenshots I just took. To assign the tag I will just right click on them and choose the read tag. Also, since I am assigning the same tag to all of the files, I will select all and then do it. This saves me from assigning tags individually for each file.

Now, I will open the finder window and click on the Red tag and you will see that all my screenshots are there. To make these files even more accessible we will add them to our dock using the Stacks feature. To do that, click and drag on the Red tag from the Finder window and drop it between the Trashcan and the line separating it from other items on your dock. You will see that the tag Red has been added to a stack. Click on the stack to access all your files which are tagged Red. This is an easy way to organize and access your files.

Best Advanced Mac Tips and Tricks

19. Take Screenshots in JPG Format

If you take a lot of screenshots on Mac, you must know that your Mac takes screenshots in PNG format. Although there are a lot of advantages of keeping photos in PNG format (for one, it is lossless), it also comes with a major disadvantage. PNG format images take larger space on your Mac's hard drive as the file size is bigger. Hence, its always good to take screenshots in JPG format. With JPG format the screenshot quality is almost the same and you save space. It also makes them easier to share as the files are smaller in size.

defaults write com.apple.screencapture type jpg

It's very easy to teach your Mac to take screenshots in JPG format. Just open the Terminal on your Mac, type the code mentioned above and hit enter. Now, every time you take a screenshot, your Mac will be taking it in a JPG format. In fact, you can replace jpg with pdf to take screenshots in PDF format. Also, if you ever want to go back to taking screenshots in PNG format, just replace jpg with png in the above code.

20. Mark the Hidden Apps

We all know that macOS lets us hide apps using the 'Command+H' keyboard shortcut. Hiding app is a good way to keep your desktop clean. One major benefit of hiding apps instead of minimizing it is that you can use the 'Command+Tab' keyboard shortcut to call an app back. To call up a minimized app, you need to hold the option key and release the tab key while command tabbing through the cycle. It's not as intuitive as using CMD+Tab.

defaults write com.apple.Dock showhidden -bool TRUE; killall Dock

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However, there's one problem with hiding apps. There is no indication which apps are hidden and which are closed. It makes it harder to call back apps as closed apps don't come up using the keyboard shortcuts. Well, I am going to save this problem for you today. Just open Terminal, copy and paste the command written above and hit enter. Once you do that, you will see the hidden apps are a little greyed out than the rest of the apps, just like shown in the picture below.

Bonus: Create Custom Keyboard Shortcuts

The last tip I want to live with you today is one which can greatly improve your productivity. Using keyboard shortcuts is one of the fastest ways to get something done. Not only it makes the process faster, once you are used to it, you can perform that action without even thinking about it. That's why I always make sure that I create custom keyboard shortcuts for all my frequently used actions. For example, I take a lot of screenshots and resize them using Mac's preview app. However, there's no keyboard shortcut to open the resizing window on the Preview app. So, I created one for myself.

To create a shortcut go to System PreferencesKeyboard Shortcuts App Shortcut. Now click on the + button choose the app you want to create a shortcut for. Here, enter the name of the action you want to create a shortcut for and then type in the keyboard shortcut you want to use. It's as simple as that.

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MacBook Pro Tips and Tricks: Conclusion

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That ends our article. I wanted to add more but the article is already too long. If you want more tips, be sure to let me know either by liking this post or commenting below. Your engagement proves that the work I am doing is helping some of you out there. Also, if you found this article helpful, do share this with others because we need your help to share the blog with others.





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