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Update: Evernote for Mac – Better PDF options

Product updates | By Andrew Sinkov
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Today, we released updates to both Evernote for Windows and Evernote for Mac. While many of the improvements to Evernote for Mac aren’t visible (read: lots of bug fixes), there is one notable new feature:

View PDFs as attachments

Evernote for Mac (version 2.0.4) now lets you right click on a PDF to view it as an attachment. By default, Evernote for Mac displays PDFs right inside notes. This is really useful for reading the PDF  and searching within the document without having to launch an external viewer. There were two slight annoyances with this inline view that have now been solved: no more waiting for large PDFs to load and you can now easily drag a PDF out of Evernote.

Simply CTRL+click on a PDF and choose the “View as attachment” option. The PDF will immediately switch to an attachment. You can do this while the PDF is still loading. If you want to go back to the inline view, CTRL+click on the attachment and choose “View inline.”

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  • Kenkenken

    I think it is amazing how “o-rid KYBER” came up with digitizing text with 99.999％ accuracy and now it can be used in Evernote!!

  • kaim

    I remember quite some time ago a screen shot describing Premium features where PDF and other files showed up as attachments.
    Files getting in my way in-line even after becoming a Premium user has kept me from moving my files collection into EverNote so it keeps living on other services. It is nice to have the attachment option now for PDF, if only for PDF, and hopefully for Windows too. – I wonder is it really so difficult to make appearance of PDFs, docs and other stuff switchable from in-line to attachments?

  • tguarino

    Hey guys, what about the windows version?
    As you have implemented it on the Mac version, please, implement on the windows one.
    Waiting for a response…

    • John E

      Still no answer from Evernote, kind of disappointing…

      …a registered, paying costumer.

  • Nathaniel Wallshein

    I have been using evernote for almost a year now, and I would like to now submit a little ‘constructive criticism.’

    First of all, great program. The UI in general is very straightforward and easy to use; and the syncing ability is a must for my notes.

    Criticisms:
    1) When opening a note in a separate program, there is no way to collapse the ‘hide URL; click to add tag’ bar. Can you please include a way to get rid of that?

    When sorting notes, reading 1 through reading 10 will sort numerically; however reading 11 will show up under reading 1. Can you please implement a smarter sorting algorithm that notes that reading 11 should be placed after reading 10?

    There is no way to edit a table once created. Sometimes I need to add columns/rows.

    Is there any way to add mind-mapping functionality?

    There is no way

    • Nathaniel Wallshein

      got cut off:

      continuing:

      there is no way to print multiple notes at once.

      these are all small qualms, but I appreciate the forums to be able to look into improving the software. Great job!

  • Caroline

    I’m a new Premium user and have recently noticed that since this update (not an option unfortunately), anything added in my Windows copy, is turned into a .bmp on my Mac copy, causing the “quick look” thing to show, making it really freeking annoying to look at JPGs, PNGs, etc.

    I dont use PDFs in Evernote, so this is highly annoying!

  • yyaboo

    I have tried to use the download PDF feature on the mac (file then print) from a web article. It saves it to my Evernote but it only saves it as a screenshot and therefore I am not able to access the additional pages of the articles other than the 1st page. Anyone have any ideas?

    thanks

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