If you flip back through your course notes, you’ll see that last week we explored using Preview to edit and annotate images. But as I explained in that lesson, Preview has powers beyond images. It’s ...

The Preview pane in File Explorer helps us preview several file types. Therefore, finding it just displays some random text and no preview of the desired PDF file can be somewhat problematic. A ...

Use Preview: Open the PDF in Preview, click File > Export, select “Reduce File Size” under Quartz Filter, and save. Use ColorSync Utility: Open the PDF in ColorSync Utility, click File > Export, ...

PDF files are a convenient and reliable way to distribute documents to colleagues and clients. These files are secure, readable and easy to navigate. One feature of Adobe's free Acrobat Reader program ...

Ever wonder why that PDF with just text in it is somehow bloated to a massive file size? Why should something that would be under 500 kilobytes if it were a Text Edit file be two or three megabytes ...

If your Windows 64-bit installation doesn’t show thumbnail images of PDFs, you can use the free 64-bit Adobe Preview Handler to make it work again. When I upgraded to Windows 8 64-bit a few months ...

Ever tried to open two PDFs side-by-side in Preview? The app normally only lets you open a single copy of a document, so if you want to keep open a second copy—say, for easier footnote retrieval, or ...