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Open PDFs to the previously opened page
You can set Preview to open PDFs to the page you were on when you closed the PDF.
Choose Preview > Preferences, then click PDF.
Select “Start on the last viewed page.”
To always open PDFs to the first page, deselect “Start on the last viewed page.”
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