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Editing pdf documents on iMac

What is the best iMac editor to use for pdf files.




iMac 27″, 13.0

Posted on Dec 12, 2022 6:02 AM

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Dec 12, 2022 6:57 AM in response to robertfromliskeard

If you mean annotate, Preview can do that as well as any other PDF application.



Preview can also highlight, rotate pages, change page order, insert or delete pages ... and you can adjust the characteristics of the annotations (color, size, etc). Among the things you cannot do in Preview - redact a document, set print or copy restrictions, rotate an arrow, merge a group of PDFs in a specified order. The only way to set a PDF password is by doing an Export. And the Quartz Filter Reduce PDF File Size function does not produce clean copy anywhere near what Acrobat can do.


"Best" is subjective. Adobe Acrobat DC has long been considered top of the line but it also has a high cost.

Dec 12, 2022 10:40 AM in response to garyfromrio linda

The more basic issue is that the authors of most pdfs lock the files unless they expect an edit. Even then, they sometimes forget to send an unlocked version.


Are you getting messages like "you do not have permission..." or similar alerts? If it is locked, edits are going to be nearly impossible.


Most business users edit with Adobe Acrobat: https://www.adobe.com/acrobat.html but it is still up the the author to send a editable version of the file.

Editing pdf documents on iMac

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