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Handy Hint 98: A really powerful app built into your Mac - Preview
Macworld Magazine published, in January 2015, a fantastic couple of articles that describe the many amazing features of the Preview App on your Mac. They are a must read for Mac users!
If you have not yet discovered the Preview app and/or are not aware of its long list of capabilities, check out the below list of ways in which this app can be used - all topics covered by the Macworld article. (Links to the full Macworld articles are shown towards the end of this post).
Article Title: The many superpowers of Apple’s Preview app
Additional tips for creating PDFs
If you have not yet discovered the Preview app and/or are not aware of its long list of capabilities, check out the below list of ways in which this app can be used - all topics covered by the Macworld article. (Links to the full Macworld articles are shown towards the end of this post).
Article Title: The many superpowers of Apple’s Preview app
- Convert file formats
- Grab a frame from a movie
- Remove a background
- Quickly sort a folder of images
- Adjust colour and exposure
- Add annotations
- Sign documents
- Reduce PDF file size
- Merge multiple files into one PDF
- Rotate pages in a PDF
- Crop a PDF
- Password-protect a PDF or image
- Extract an application icon
- Soft proof your print (i.e. see how document will print on certain printer)
Additional tips for creating PDFs
- Create a PDF in Mac OS X using the print document
- Quickly view a PDF with Mac OS X Quick View
- Choose to view PDFs in either Mac OS X Preview or Adobe Acrobat
Sources:
Download a full, printable version of the Macworld article
| guide_to_the_preview_app.pdf |
