On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, Joseph Alotta wrote: > I have dozens of these one page pdf files. If I select them all in > finder and double click, Preview opens them in one window as a > multiple-page document. This is what I'd like to have happen.
Yeah, this bugs me too. I *think* this is really a shell vs. Finder issue, and I don't know what the fix is, but generally it seems like if you want to work on a collection of files, the Finder can operate on that collection as a set -- hence opening PDFs together in Preview, or a directory or a directory tree full of MP3s in iTunes, etc -- but if you do the same sort of thing from the command line, it's as if you sent out a series of commands such as "open -a foo bar1; open -a foo bar2; open -a foo bar3;" etc. Annoying. To date, I haven't found a way around this. The issue is broader than just Preview & PDFs though -- something the Finder is doing allows collections of files to be handled as a single set, and nothing I've tried from the command line has been able to reproduce that functionality. I'm also curious what workarounds people have for this. -- Chris Devers
