Sonny Software

I have been taking advantage of the new annotation features of Preview in Snow Leopard (i.e. more intelligent highlighting, etc.). It is great to have a program like bookends that can keep my annotated PDFs together for me to revert to if I haven't looked at a publication for some time.

When I open up a PDF from within Bookends, it launches Preview and I am able to annotate it as usual. However, if I want to save these changes, I click on 'Save As' or 'Save' from the 'File' menu in Preview and then have to navigate through different directories to find the folder containing the original file that is about to be overwritten. If I instead directly click on the PDF icon corresponding to the particular file I wish to open (i.e. not from within Bookends), Preview knows exactly which subdirectory to save the annotated file to.

I know very little about software programming -- I assume this is likely to be a small issue with Preview rather than Bookends, but does anyone know how to force Bookends to share a file's directory location with Preview such that when I wish to save an annotated file, I don't have to constantly dig into my directory to find the appropriate location to save the updated file?

Thanks!

Sounds like you're using the WebKit display of pdfs and opening in Preview via the HUD. Bookends doesn't control that. To get the behavior you want, uncheck "Use WebKit to display pdfs". Now open the pdf in Preview (by double clicking on it, for example). When you Save it just overwrites the file. If you Save As, the initial directory will be the one the pdf is in.

Jon
Sonny Software

Brilliant, Jon. That worked perfectly. Thanks for all of your hard work developing this program, I love it!