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For example, open up a pdf and set view to two pages and hit arrow key up/down. Is there a way to get rid of the animation? Preview feels really snappy and fast, and to have animations like that just spoils all the fun. Might seem like a proper first world problem, especially if you're just a casual user of pdfs. But I frequently have 10+ pdfs open for referencing purposes (that is, a lot of flicking back and fourth), and the animation just drives me nuts.

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You're not alone in this. There's a thread at forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1205891 about the same thing. Worth keeping an eye on both and updating with the answer – Joe Taylor Sep 24 '11 at 10:08
I have no answer yet. I only just encountered the Preview animation, somehow -- I normally use continuous scroll, but for this ("A Lesser Photographer", which has been mentioned a lot on the net recently) I wanted to see whole pages at a time. And, man -- this is really annoying, even on a 2011 MBP. Lion, Lion, why do you hate me so? – khedron Oct 2 '11 at 2:49
See also: apple.stackexchange.com/questions/21525/… ? – khedron Oct 2 '11 at 2:50
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Go » Next Item (⌥↓) and Go » Previous Item (⌥↑) (new in Lion) aren't animated. Unlike ⇞ and ⇟, they go to the next page even when the current page has a vertical scrollbar.

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I never noticed those. I wonder if you could remap the arrow keys to Next and Previous Item instead... – c00kiemonster Nov 16 '11 at 1:27
@c00kiemonster You could in the Keyboard preference pane. But it would conflict with the functions ↑ and ↓ have in text fields. – Lri Nov 16 '11 at 1:30
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One way to prevent the very annoying page slide transition animations in Preview is to use the mouse wheel, not very precise, but is a way.

The other, which I prefer, is to open the Thumbnails side panel, select a page and then when you press arrows up/down the effect is not used. If you use the page up/down keys though the effect is used.

Not much, but it's something.

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