Editing PDFs on your Mac
By Paul Biba
I was unaware of any of this ’till today. All Macs come with a free program called Preview, which can be used for a number of things. I mainly use it to quickly view and resize pictures. An article in today’s on-line Macworld entitled “Preview’s hidden powers” clues us in to certain PDF editing abilities in Preview. According to the article Preview can do the following things with PDFs:
1. “… Leopard’s Preview lets you add notes, highlight and strike through text, or use ovals and rectangles to call attention to specific sections of the page. You can even add links to other pages in a document or to Web sites. Best of all, other PDF readers—including both Mac OS X and Windows versions of Adobe Acrobat Reader—can view all of these annotations.”
2. Delete or rearrange PDF pages
3. Merge two PDFs into one.
April 3rd, 2008 at 12:50 am
Interesting, I wonder if I rename my Linux machine ‘Ubuntu-Mac’ I can get Preview to run? uMac sounds OK to me.
April 3rd, 2008 at 8:14 am
preview is also great because it loads quickly. i use it instead of adobe’s software a lot.