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Table of Contents
Preview User Guide
Welcome
Open PDFs and images
View PDFs or images
View PDFs and images
Find text in PDFs
Interact with text in a photo
Bookmark PDF pages
View information about PDFs and images
Import images from a camera
See where a photo was taken
Display a PDF as a slideshow
View an animated GIF’s frames
Edit PDFs
Fill out and sign PDF forms
Select and copy text in a PDF
Highlight, underline and strike out text
Add notes and speech bubbles to a PDF
Annotate a PDF
Combine PDFs
Add, delete or move PDF pages
Crop or rotate a PDF
Add effects to a PDF
Edit images
Crop, resize or rotate an image
Convert image file types
Extract an image or remove a background
Annotate an image
See what an image looks like on another device
Apply a colour profile to an image
Manage PDFs or images
Save PDFs and images
Revert changes to PDFs and images
Copy PDFs and images
Lock PDFs and images
Export PDFs and images
Password-protect a PDF
Compress a PDF
Print PDFs and images
Troubleshooting
If you can’t select or copy text in a PDF
If images or PDFs aren’t the correct size
If Go to Page shows the wrong page of a PDF
Change Preview settings
Keyboard shortcuts
Copyright
and Rectangular Selection
Annotate a PDF in Preview on Mac
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