Viewing and Converting Images and PDFs in Preview
You use Preview to open, view, and print PDFs as well as most graphics files (TIFF, JPEG, PICT, and so on). PDF files are formatted documents that can include text and images. User manuals, books, and the like are often distributed as PDF files. You can’t edit the existing text in a PDF file with Preview, but you can leaf through its pages, annotate and mark it up, and print it. You can often select text and graphics in a PDF file, copy them to the Clipboard (
+C), and paste (+V) them into documents in other applications. It’s also the application that pops open when you click the Preview button in the Print dialog, as described in Chapter 15.
Actually, that’s not entirely true. You can edit one certain type of PDF file: a form that has blank fields. Preview allows you to fill in the blanks and then resave the document. And although it’s technically not editing, you can annotate a PDF document by using the Annotate tools on the toolbar.
One of the most useful things Preview can do is change a graphic file in one file format into one with ...
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