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the translucent setting activated within the General section of System Prefer-
ences. To turn on Dock translucency, open a Terminal window, and type the
following:
DEFAULTS WRITE COM.APPLE.DOCK HIDE-MIRROR -BOOL TRUE;KILLALL DOCK
To return the Dock to its default opaqueness, type the following into a Terminal
window:
DEFAULTS DELETE COM.APPLE.DOCK HIDE-MIRROR;KILLALL DOCK
Tip 298
Add Sketches to PDFs
We discuss in another tip how to insert your signature into PDFs (
Tip 356,
Add Your Signature to Docs
, on page 370
)
. However, the system can also be
used to insert hand-drawn sketches like maps or diagrams into documents.
Just hold the drawing up to the camera instead of your signature, and then
resize it appropriately once it's inserted into the document—the drawing will
be captured in surprisingly high resolution that makes it suitable for inclusion,
even in documents intended for printing.
It's not possible to append such sketches to existing image files, although
you can add textboxes and various other annotations to images—just click
Tools→Annotate and select an option.
Tip 299
Prune the Right-Click Menu
Is your right-click menu getting a little full, making it hard to see the options
you're interested in at a glance? This can be a real issue in Finder because
many apps like to add their own entries to the right-click menu that appears
for files, but other right-click menus can get filled up too, such as the one
that appears when you right-click text.
To control what entries appear in right-click menus, open System Preferences
(Apple menu→System Preferences), and click the Keyboard icon. Then click
