# Embedded PDF questions **URL:** \ **Category:** General\ **Created:** [July 29, 2025, 7:29pm UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/embedded-pdf-questions/17898 "2025-07-29T19:29:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![77Forever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/7/c67d28/32.png) [@77Forever](https://community.bear.app/u/77Forever)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2025, 7:29pm UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/embedded-pdf-questions/17898/1 "2025-07-29T19:29:39Z")
Hello, I’ve searched for this info, but all the posts are a couple years old so I’m hoping for some options. 1. Is there anyway to have the PDF attachments show all pages in the preview? It only shows one page. For archiving purposes I would love it if it would show all the pages and could export the whole thing as a pdf. Also, I hate having to tap on it to glance through it. 2. Is there any fix for the problem of not being able to markup a pdf on MacBook without resaving it to Bear? This was one of my major frustrations with Apple Notes. It seems strange that you can edit a .pages document and it will resave back to Bear, but you can’t add a couple highlights to a PDF without resaving a copy of the PDF back to bear. Thanks for any help on this. ---
**Author:** ![trix180](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.bear.app/trix180/32/588_2.png) [@trix180](https://community.bear.app/u/trix180)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2025, 8:48am UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/embedded-pdf-questions/17898/2 "2025-07-30T08:48:10Z")
Hello, 1. No. I can understand how showing all the PDF pages can be handy in some scenarios, but it doesn’t seem to be a common use case for note-taking. 2. Unfortunately, no but back in the day I have tested some apps such as Acrobat can be used within the `Open With…` right click menu and edit the PDF in place. ---
**Author:** ![77Forever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/7/c67d28/32.png) [@77Forever](https://community.bear.app/u/77Forever)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2025, 8:34pm UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/embedded-pdf-questions/17898/3 "2025-07-30T20:34:05Z")
Ok, bummer. Thanks for the input. I am part of 4 different boards or committees. It’s really nice to keep all handouts and my own notes all in the same note but Bear makes it a little difficult with this handling of pdf’s ---
**Author:** ![crumbletop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6a8cbe/32.png) [@crumbletop](https://community.bear.app/u/crumbletop)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2025, 9:47pm UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/embedded-pdf-questions/17898/4 "2025-07-30T21:47:05Z")
From your latest “bummer” description it sounds like perhaps you have a single pdf with multiple documents/notes in it. If that is the case, why not have a pdf for each document? You would get previews of the first page of each document. In your original post it sounded like you want a preview that shows every page of every pdf, so a 40 page document and a 20 page document would have all 60 pages visible (which to be honest sounds crazy haha so perhaps that isn’t what you meant :)). Anyway, perhaps there is a way you can work with the current preview functionality and still see enough of each document to know whether you want to open it and dig further. ---
**Author:** ![77Forever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/7/c67d28/32.png) [@77Forever](https://community.bear.app/u/77Forever)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2025, 1:44pm UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/embedded-pdf-questions/17898/5 "2025-08-01T13:44:56Z")
I understand how that sounded…but I actually do have different pdf’s for each document. I scan them in. I don’t usually have long one, but some are two or three pages and I wish there was the option for viewing the whole pdf like apple notes and some other apps do. I don’t remember which ones, because I’ve tried so many, but it’s usually a scrolling window within the note or something. I’d be fine with the option to see the whole thing in note, almost like a series of pictures. Turning the scans into jpgs might actually work for me. Part of the reason I want this option is for archiving purposes. I have lots of meetings with individual people as well as board meetings. I need to keep all meeting notes, but some of them are not active, so after a couple years I’d like to archive them by exporting to pdf. I love Bear’s export options! But if I export to pdf it only shows the first page of the attachment in the export. It exports the full pdf also, but separately. So then I end up with multiple files for that archived single meeting note. ---
**Author:** ![crumbletop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6a8cbe/32.png) [@crumbletop](https://community.bear.app/u/crumbletop)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2025, 2:57pm UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/embedded-pdf-questions/17898/6 "2025-08-01T14:57:32Z")
It doesn’t help with the viewing options you want, but when you export to pdf and get note + attachments you can make those all into a single pdf by selecting all the files, right clicking, and under quick actions select “create pdf”. Perhaps that would work for your archival process. ---
**Author:** ![77Forever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/7/c67d28/32.png) [@77Forever](https://community.bear.app/u/77Forever)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2025, 1:13am UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/embedded-pdf-questions/17898/7 "2025-08-02T01:13:46Z")
That would probably work! Thanks for the tip! ---
**Author:** ![huali](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/f08c70/32.png) [@huali](https://community.bear.app/u/huali)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2026, 5:31pm UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/embedded-pdf-questions/17898/8 "2026-01-02T17:31:47Z")
I think this is a good adjust. If bear can support this feature, it will become more better