You Probably Don’t Need Adobe Reader On Your Mac
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ก.ค. 2024
- macmost.com/e-2779 Many Mac users have Adobe Reader on their Macs so they can read and fill out PDF files. But macOS already has a very capable PDF app named Preview. Most people will find it more than capable for all of their needs, and perhaps a little faster and convenient. If Adobe Reader is set as your default PDF app, I'll show you how to switch back to using Preview.
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00:00 Intro
00:25 Adobe Reader
00:45 macOS Preview
01:32 Using Preview to Read PDF Files
02:09 Filling In Forms
02:33 Signing Documents
02:55 Add Text Without Fields
03:22 Markup PDFs
03:43 Not a PDF Creation or Editing Tool
04:40 Set Preview as the Default PDF Viewer
05:44 View PDFs in Your Web Browser
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Preview is probably one of the most overlooked apps on Mac! It's awesome!
I've used Preview only for many years. One thing to note, Adobe is bad about attaching adware to their apps even when you download it from them. Some of it can be pretty invasive, too. Maybe if you are a professional you might be able to deal with it. But, for most; Preview is all you need.
Preview is the unsung hero in macOS and I use it all the time, for multiple purposes, including basic image editing. Yet, I have experiences with PDF forms that would not even open in Preview and needs Acrobat Reader to be opened to fill the form. I don’t know why that is, but as Acrobat Reader is free, just have it and use it when needed. Preview is a little known jewel, and you could make several episodes documenting it.
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It seems nice to me to just open pictures, PDFs, and any type of file, except HTML or CSS, unlike Windows, where you have to wait for Photos to come up & wait for Microsoft Edge to come up (PDF). However, if you download PowerToys, it’s fixed (a little) if you use Peek.
Thanks bunches. Because of an earlier tutorial, I use Preview all of the time and find it much easier to work. A great review which is always appreciated.
Have always used Preview to view and fill out PDF's but still learnt somethings, like using text to fill out forms that don't have fields that you can enter info on. Good job Gary 👍
Super useful. As a new Mac user I had no idea and have been struggling with the free version of Adobe for a while. Thanks so much for making my tech life easier!
Two page mode is so useful for music scores that are two pages long, especially when playing along to a backing track. It avoids having to stop playing in order to scroll down, - terrific!
I'm agree with all you've said. I like using Apple Preview to open and edit PDF files. But I keep Adobe Acrobat Reader, because it have one useful tool: When I need to print PDF larger then my printer size (A4/US Legal). Acrobat Reader can divide those large files into a few A4 sheets - so later I can glue them together and have 100% size.
Thank you! Your video was so helpful. Preview seems like a more pleasant experience. It seems to be easier to print out as well.
Great video, as always, thank you! But I missed the hint, that preview is able to create multipage-pdf's. In thumbnail-mode you can easily drag other pdfs in the sidebar, which creates additional pages in the pdf.
A thousand thank yous to you! I as going mad trying to work out how to print from A4 to A3 in Adobe Reader - but now - my new favourite app - Preview! Yay for you and for Preview.
Another very useful video, have changed my default reader to preview just now
Great! Your vid perfectly answered my questions since buying a macbook this week!
Very clear and directly to the point explanation just subscribed. Thank you.
Thanks very much for this discovery. Words can't describe the kind of comfort and satisfaction you brought to me by this Preview on Mac Sir
OMG I can’t thank you enough! I absolutely hate Adobe Reader and never use it on my iPad. To know that I don’t have to deal with it on my MacBook Air is truly wonderful. Thank you for posting this video.
This was SO extremely helpful!!! Thank you for making this
I didn’t know this!!! Thank you
I love all your videos! I’m new to my Mac so always trying to figure things out!! Thanks again!!! 🤛🏻
A very useful and informative video tutorial today! Thank you, Gary! 👏🏻❤️
This video is very helpful. Didn't know Preview can do that to PDF files. Thank you Gary!
I CAN"T BELIEVE THIS!! This was SO easy to fix! (Adobe would not let me uninstall, nor open anything unless I got Adobe pro). You just saved me a TON of time and money. Thank-you so much!!!
Great, Gary. I didn't know that!... Thanks for sharing this knowledge with us.
SOOOO informative - THANK YOU for posting!🙏
Brother, this video has helped me so much. Thank you for saving my money!!
Been using Preview for some PDF to add comments, but did not know you can do much more. Thanks!!!
Thank you so much. I was struggling with this.
Thank you! the Preview seems to offer everything I need for my home office use.
Thank you! I am new Mac user and this was so helpful!
Cheers Gary, a great tutorial, information I was not aware of.
Interesting video once again. Preview is great. You can even add or remove pages or merge pdf documents, from the thumbnails view! A feature I use quite often.
I did not know that you could change the default pdf viewer from the information pane. I always go with open-with and then select the app in Applications then check Always.
I really appreciate this channel, really helpful for beginner mac user.
Very Informative Video- I didn’t know this! Thanks!
Very useful video. Adobe is sot smooth on macOS while Preview is really smooth. I've never used Preview tbh. Thanks.
A very helpful video. Thank you Gary!
Really, really excellent info. Thanks so much.
Thank you so much! You just saved my morning!
Thanks for sharing Gary - yes Preview rules and I love it.
As clear as glass as always. THNX
Thank you as always Gary!👍👍
Thank you, it's video so useful
Thank you for the information. I didn't think I had a choice and thought I had to use Adobe Reader to read a pdf file. Learned something today.
Recently I had to use a Windows machine for a job and accessing PDFs was so clunky on Windows it was a drag! I'm glad that's over!
Never knew Previews could do this, Thank you so much for this video.
Hello Gary. Thank you very much once again for an excellent video. I can attest to the fact that you have saved me $16 a month for Adobe Acrobat for at least a year now. I started using Preview instead of Reader when I saw your first video about it. Then I cancelled the Adobe subscription. I’ve never looked back, thanks to you! (Yes, I did take some of that money and applied it to your Patreon (well worth it!). One other thing that Preview works great at is providing a print preview, just before printing. In that case, when you get to the print dialog box, at the bottom in a drop down menu, it says “open in preview” (instead of printing). By opening your document in Preview from whatever source, you get a perfect representation of what it will look like printed. After reviewing it in Preview, you can then print as usual. Thanks again!
Thanks for your support Howard!
Hey Gary. Your video was a revelation... feels like 1999 again, when the 'net' was more 'innocent / less dangerous' and was populated by folks with friendly / straightforward advice about "How To'. So naturally I subscribed... and will follow up regarding Patreon. Thank you!
Great tips! Thanks.
So helpful!! Wish I knew this before!!
Brilliant Gary . Thank you
This was useful information, thanks
Good info, thanks!
thanks, great info
Great! Thanks Gary!
I appreciate this. I dumped Adobe Reader a long time ago, but I needed the review of the capabilities of Preview which are great, although, for me, a bit hard to figure out. Apple apps are not always the most transparent these days.
I wish i saw your this video earlier and save myself some money... another amazing tutorial . Thanks Gary
Thank you Gary!
Thanks man! You have just saved me so much hassle you won't be believe it.
man thank you for this!!!
100%!!!!!.... Thank you so much for your video. I started to walk into frustration mode until I came across your video. I can do what I need (taking notes, adding elements, etc.) with Preview. I had no idea this app existed! Oh, and I no longer have to upgrade Adobe to rotate my pdf. Preview does it for me....... for FREE! Thank you,, thank you!
Thank you so much
Fabulous! I love it !
Thanks Gary!
the text boxes at 2:55 are magical tools. I use them all the time to write annotations over the PDF, and as Gary says, they are a great workaround for those annoying PDF forms which don't give you spaces to fill in.
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@@ShantiDoss2000 you can. Just press command + I think
Helpful thsnk you for content I ❤️
Preview makes it so simple to add, delete and swop pages around (something which is really a pain to do in Adobe). I can’t believe people don’t instinctively use it instead of Adobe. Without Adobe it’s how you have to open pdf’s in mac after all?!
It makes so many things so easy to do. I use it to turn images to watermarks, annotate music scores, copy and paste bits of pdf’s into Pages and perform many other tasks.
great tips for a new Mac user!
Big thanks.
Thank you sir
Signing pdf just by clicking few buttons is supercool. However you should have touched how annotation will be saved and in which cases to use which annotations best.
Preview has been my go-to app for as long as I can remember.
There is one very annoying feature of some websites - they won't let you open/read a PDF unless you're using Adobe (v8 or above). You'll end up with just an error message in your browser. Many Canadian government website do this to you and it is an awful pain ... because Preview otherwise works just fine for PDFs. Thanks, Gary. The stuff you deliver is very helpful and much appreciated.
I've never seen that. I assume you can just download the PDF and open it that way?
@@macmost You have to download it and print it to use those PDFs. Really annoying.
@@macmost not alberta government forms. Even the dowload is just an error msg. If the form will open in the browser, sometimes you can print them to pdf. Not always.
Wow … thank you!!
Very cool video!
Gary, thanks for bringing up the topic. I use Preview except when I need to sign certain documents using a digital signature, as some EU institutions require. No way to get around this at the moment.
I have noticed that when installing Adobe Reader, it automatically installs specific auxiliary programs such as Adobe Synchronizer, which automatically launches at startup. One way to prevent this is to go into System Setting > Users & Group, disable this behavior, and free up your RAM.
The lack of eIDAS signature support is a dealbreaker for me and for a lot of professionals. Also, they added PDF/A export some time back, but they never exposed it to automator, which is a bummer :/
Love this app
Excellent video. Most people are probably not aware of preview. I wasn't.
Muchas gracias, funciona perfectamente, te has ganado el like, la suscripción y todo XD
Thanks
Only thing I cannot open in Preview is PDF Portfolio format (basically PDF index with included PDFs). Only Acrobat Reader supports it.
It is quite usefull format, as you get all documents to certain software release bundled together, and you always know you have all the documents at hand and all for the same version.
But Reader is slow BEHEMOTH!
So there goes simple solution - I rename all those Portfolio documents to .pdfp and Reader is default application for it.
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thanks
Gary, you just got a new subscriber. Great information! Damn!
Very useful, as always! I wish there was a reliable freebie that would let me create a pdf with clickable fill-in spaces.
How timely was this! I have been struggling with Adobe for sometime now. It keeps wanting me to sign up for Adobe for $19.99/mth. But I only need it for a pdf file. I had never heard of Preview app. Didn’t know it works for pdf files. I always considered asking you for help, but did not want to bother you.
Thank you for doing this video.
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In general, I don’t use many third party productivity apps on my Mac other than MS products. I used pages for a few years but found it to be a little cumbersome when having to convert to word documents. Formatting was never perfect converting from a pages doc to a word doc. However, if you create a form on word, either of a Max or Windows, can the form be exported to a PDF and retain the form field features? Can forms be made easily in pages? I am curious. Maybe you can do a video on creating forms using either MS word or pages.
I only use adobe when I need to use the adobe digital signatures. This is different than the preview signature images. Unfortunately my work uses it a lot.
I have Adobe Reader installed because come from Windows, the last version of Windows that I used was Windows XP back in 2009.
Thank you thank you. I spent 1/2 hour trying to print a pdf doc that said no pages were selected. My issue was that the doc did not open in preview. I opened it in Preview and it printed!!! Yeah!
Preview is fantastic for dealing with pdfs.
Preview is powerful tool, like all in one solution for most of the things
I haven't used Adobe Reader on MacOS for decades, Preview is mostly superior and Adobe Reader is a classic example of Adobe muddled design. I do have to use it on my Chromebook, despite it is clumsy for what it does.
There are constant changing bugs in Preview that make certain operations harder than they should be but it does the core functions of opening and reading PDFs and editing all image formats with easy direct UI/UX. It's the least worse choice.
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coming from windows I'm glad to see a built in app that allows me to do everything I usually need to do with a pdf
Fantastic info! I was wondering why all of my PDFs were opening in Adobe Reader. Now I know how to change that and I want nothing to do with Adobe. Thank you!
I would still have Acrobat Reader installed because there are some pdf forms especially the government type ones that are not compatible to Preview
I have avoided Adobe like the plague for 15 or 20 years. I remember being new to Mac, figured I needed it and it completely gummed up my machine. Maybe it plays better with Mac now, but I've learned Preview is all I need.
Still need it in some cases....
Thanks Gary, verry usefull!
What's the "safest" way to save an edited pdf by "preview" to make futher changes impossible for example the signature?
I would go to File, Set Permissions and lock it down that way.
wena, me salvaste estaba como loco buscando PDF para Mac, pero claro, No lo necesito. Saludos
Your videos are amazingly helpful to me. Yes, it's a fantastic application, and I exclusively use the preview feature, not any other PDF applications. However, a drawback I strongly sense is the absence of a feature to paste images. Since I'm creating a signature, I wish there was a provision to paste the company seal, which is in image format. Please let me know if there is any way to address this.
There's a weird way that works if you really want it. It involves opening the image in another window in Preview, then copying the image, then pasting the image in that same image document (on top of the image as a layer of sorts). Then selecting that image layer and copying that. Then pasting that into the PDF. You must be in markup mode for the PDF document. Not a great workflow.
I always find your videos very valuable. One question I have is, every once in a while I need to turn a PDF into a text editable document. Can Preview perform a OCR of a PDF. If not, do you have a recommendation what to use to do that. Thanks for all your valuable advice.
You should be able to just select the text in the PDF, copy and paste. If the PDF is actually a collection of scanned images with no real text there, then you should now be able to use Live Text in macOS Monterey to grab the text and copy it anyway.
Gary, how to lock a PDF to send by email? I discovered your channel recently, really like your videos! Thank you.
Open the PDF in Preview, Choose File, Edit Permissions.