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    Preview

    • Free • Proprietary
    • Mac
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    Preview info, screenshots & reviewsAlternatives to 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.
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    Features Vote on or suggest new features

    • Electronic Signature
    • Edit PDF
    • Fill PDF Forms
    • Image resizing
    • Built-in Image converter

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    SawyerLatte
    Comment • about 10 years ago • 4 users agree • 0 replies
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    Preview is one of the best things about OS X. Every OS needs a decent PDF reader and image viewer (not necessarily together), and this is better than all of the alternatives. If only Windows had an equivalent...

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    ihartwinsies
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    • Positive comment • over 2 years ago • 1 users agree • 0 replies
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    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.

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    OmgItsTheSmartGuy
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    • Positive comment • about 9 years ago • 0 replies
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    For basic cropping and whatnot, Preview is a surprisingly capable image editor. At least, it makes MS Paint look embarrassing.

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    Jynto
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    • Positive comment • almost 9 years ago • 0 replies
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    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.

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    Thelle
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    • Positive comment • almost 8 years ago • 0 replies
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    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!

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    Categories

    Office & Productivity • Photos & Graphics

    Platform details

    Mac: Included in OS X

    Tags

    • pdf
    • Image Viewers
    • Pdf reader

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    Summary and Relevance

    Our users have written 8 comments and reviews about Preview, and it has gotten 110 likes

    • Developed by Apple
    • Proprietary and Free product.
    • Average rating of 4.3
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    Preview was added to AlternativeTo by genba on Apr 14, 2009 and this page was last updated Sep 24, 2020.
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