![]() ![]() ![]() PDFpen offers a nice, intuitive interface that allows you to easily add a graphical signature, highlight text, annotate with a circle, place a stamp, and a myriad of other features. Preview does have some basic annotation tools which are nice, but they don’t quite rise to the “professional” level. That’s when I turn to PDFpen from Smile Software, or Acrobat Professional from Adobe. In additional to simply opening and reading a PDF file, Preview is also excellent for sorting pages in an PDF, extracting certain pages out of a PDF, and dragging & dropping pages from one PDF file to another. Preview is “free” since it’s built into the Mac OS – you get it with any Mac you buy. ![]() I leave Preview as my default PDF viewer because it’s fast and performs admirably when I simply need to open and read a PDF. I choose to leave Preview as my default PDF viewer, even though I have both PDFpen and Adobe Acrobat on my system. That means out of the box, your Mac will open Preview when you double-click a PDF file. It’s the default viewer for image files such as JPG or TIFF, as well as PDFs. It’s fast, functional and free, and it was designed by Apple to work within the Mac OS. ![]() Preview is truly a hidden gem that’s built into Mac OS X. So 90% of the time, I’m opening PDFs in Preview, the excellent image viewer that’s built into Mac OS X. Type the file name you’d like and choose the location (such as Documents or Desktop), then click “Save.This may seem like a silly question, but PDFs are indispensable to the practice of law so this is an important consideration.Īs I wrote in my review of Adobe Acrobat 9 for Law.com, PDF has become the lingua franca of legal documents – it is the standard for electronic filing, scanned documents, digital signatures, form distribution and much more. This means lawyers and legal professionals have to open and read a LOT of PDF files every day.Ībout 90% of the time, all we need to do is open and read a PDF – we don’t need to highlight or annotate anything, create bookmarks, or do anything else except just read the content. In the PDF drop-down menu, select “Save as PDF.” Near the bottom of the Print window, you will see a small drop-down menu labeled “PDF.” Click on it. In the menu bar at the top of the screen, select File > Print.Ī printing dialog will open up. Open the document you’d like to print to a PDF file. The PDF printer feature is available from almost any application that allows printing, such as Safari, Chrome, Pages, or Microsoft Word. Luckily, macOS makes it easy to do this from almost any app.Īpple’s Macintosh operating system (macOS) has included system-level support for PDF files for 20 years now since the original Mac OS X Public Beta. In this case, you can “print” to a PDF file. Sometimes you need to print a document, but you don’t have a printer available-or you’d like to save it for your records in a stable format that will never change. ![]()
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