Preview, Mac OS X’s PDF/image viewer, has always been kind of an iffy subject and its fate has been uncertain. When Panther was released, Preview was hailed as the fastest PDF reader on the market, but it still was a bit clunky, and for me, personally, the relatively recent release of Adobe Reader 8 persuaded me to make that my default PDF reader.

However, Preview in Mac OS X Leopard has been greatly enhanced with a significant number of new and enhanced features which really define it as a serious PDF reader, and also brings a few tricks up its sleeve that formerly have only been available to PDF consumers after the purchase of Adobe Acrobat Pro. So what’s new? Let’s take a look.
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Tags: editing, features, images, iWork, Leopard Feature Presentation, Mac OS X Leopard, PDFs, preview, review, viewing

SubEthaEdit by TheCodingMonkeys has to be my favorite text editor on the Mac (which is one reason why I love Coda, because it has the Subetha Engine built right in). Not only is it a very nice, bloat-free text editor with powerful capabilities for syntax highlighting, etc., SubEthaEdit is the first and the best tool for multi-user document collaboration. Yep, even before Google Documents existed, SubEthaEdit was there. Although with Leopard coming out, which now has screen sharing capability built-into iChat, the specialness of an application like SEE may seem diminished, but it’s still going to be a great tool for those Mac users who don’t upgrade to Leopard right away.

SubEthaEdit 3.0 was released today, and it brings along some nice new features. Although the new version is completely compatible with Tiger, it also packs a number of Leopard features, including being fully Quick Look-compatible, making it possible to view SubEthaEdit documents in Finder Cover Flow, Quick Look, and share them in iChat Theater (albeit read-only). SEE 3.0 can also save files in a special “SubEthaEdit Text” format which retains data such as changes by different collaborators and who collaborated on what, etc. It also has a better view for tracking one’s connections, and a statistics window to view various stats on who has contributed what, etc.

They have a movie detailing all the new features in SubEthaEdit 3.0, although it’s a little hard to understand the guy, it’s still an interesting watch. My congrats to the TheCodingMonkeys and hats off for designing such excellent software.

Tags: application, collaboration, Connections, editing, Mac OS X Leopard, sharing, Software, SubEthaEdit, text, TheCodingMonkeys