Preview
- Free • Proprietary
- Mac
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What is Preview?
Preview is a simple and elegant application by Apple for viewing and working with images and PDF documents.
With a single click, Preview takes your PDF document full screen for an ideal reading or viewing experience. Quickly select text or images and copy and paste them into other applications. Move individual pages around or delete pages altogether, and combine documents with a drag and drop. Easy-to-use annotation tools let you add markup or editorial comments for sharing with others.
You can also view and edit images. Crop, rotate, resize, and save images in a range of formats. Enhance your image files using several Core Image-powered adjustments for easy control over color, exposure, and sharpness.
With a single click, Preview takes your PDF document full screen for an ideal reading or viewing experience. Quickly select text or images and copy and paste them into other applications. Move individual pages around or delete pages altogether, and combine documents with a drag and drop. Easy-to-use annotation tools let you add markup or editorial comments for sharing with others.
You can also view and edit images. Crop, rotate, resize, and save images in a range of formats. Enhance your image files using several Core Image-powered adjustments for easy control over color, exposure, and sharpness.
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Our users have written 8 comments and reviews about Preview, and it has gotten 112 likes
- Developed by Apple
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- StagnantPentagon liked Preview18 days ago
- spacepengu added Preview as alternative(s) to GNOME Sushi2 months ago
Baked into MacOS, it's really easy, accessible, supports many image formats and pdf. Has basic editing features for pdf and image files. It's also very light-weight.
This is not what preview most usefully does on MacOS.
You can preview any file in finder via pressing the "space" button if you have an app that opens that file and supports preview feature.
It's necessary for every OS.
Yes, you can, but that is a Finder function, which is not at all the same as the app "Preview."
Reply written over 1 year ago
If you need some thing to view PDF and pictures, and sometime do some basic edit, Preview is absolutely a good tool.
I work a lot with images and PDF documents on Linux, Mac, and Windows system. I have tried a lot of image viewers, image editing tools, and PDF viewers. This one is, by far, the best image viewer I have used and gives one the ability to do basic image markup and manipulation. It also allows markup of PDF documents.
It also is very good at performing basic conversion of image and PDFs files from one format to another.
I've tried other image/PDF viewers but I keep coming back to Preview because of its capabilities.
Preview is simply beautiful!! It is so simple and just works as expected for viewing, light formatting and annotations! On top of that it supports a bunch of file-formats including RAW, even microsoft documents formats and lets you edit and sign PDF-files. I absolutely love it!
One downside is that I can't flick through my pictures easily in preview, but really my only complaint!
I used to open Photoshop just to resize or crop an image, but then I realized Preview could do it. Go to Tools->Adjust Colour... and you'll find it can do many of the basic image filters that Photoshop can do. You'll never even need Adobe Reader, because Preview opens PDFs, and does it much faster.
For basic cropping and whatnot, Preview is a surprisingly capable image editor. At least, it makes MS Paint look embarrassing.