Why does Preview.app lock up when I open Stata’s PDF documentation from the Finder?
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Opening PDF documentation with Preview.app
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Author
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Chinh Nguyen, StataCorp
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Date
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July 2009
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Each PDF document in Stata’s PDF documentation set includes the
complete table of contents for all of Stata’s documentation as bookmarks.
This allows you to go to any table of contents entry in Stata’s PDF
documentation from any single PDF document. Stata’s PDF documentation
includes more than one thousand bookmarks. Preview.app can handle only a
little more than one hundred bookmarks and will seemingly lock up if a PDF
document includes more. Adobe Reader does not have any problems with a
large number of bookmarks and is recommended for viewing Stata’s PDF
documentation.
Stata uses Adobe Reader for viewing Stata’s PDF documentation opened
from within Stata’s help system. If you want to open Stata’s PDF
documentation from the Finder, you must set Adobe Reader as the default
application for opening PDF documents. To set Adobe Reader as the default
application for opening all PDF documents on your Mac, select any PDF
document from the Finder, select File > Get Info from the menu bar,
select Adobe Reader from the Open with: popup menu in the Get
Info window, and then click on the Change All... button. If you only
want to set Adobe Reader as the default application for just Stata’s PDF
documentation, select all of Stata’s PDF documentation from the Finder,
select File > Get Info, and then select Adobe Reader from the Open
with: popup menu.
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