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Annotating PDF files on a Mac

To annotate a PDF file, most computer users need to buy Adobe Acrobat Professional (which costs about $500). But if you are on a Mac, you may not realize that you can annotate PDF files for free using Preview. When you are looking at a PDF file on the Mac in Preview, go to the Tools section of the menu bar and select the Annotate option. It should look like this...



Using these commands, you can add notes, links, and shapes to the PDF document to mark it up. And don't worry about others being able to read the changes, they can. When you annotate a PDF file in Preview and save your changes, they can be read by other Mac users as well as by users using Adobe Acrobat on a PC. Apple doesn't really tout this feature much, but if this is great functionality to have for free when compared to most PC users.
Rating: 100% positive, 19 total Votes
Categories: Mac PDF editors preview Adobe
Added: on Apr 04, 2008 at 11:09 am
Added By: an anonymous user
Searches: pdf mac preview file adobe

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very useful tip, cheers
– Added by an anonymous user on May 20, 2008 at 9:59 am
Altho, could tell how to remove the note >.<
– Added by an anonymous user on May 20, 2008 at 10:01 am
thanks a million - I've been trying to do this on acrobat reader forever with no luck
– Added by an anonymous user on Feb 22, 2009 at 1:44 pm
But how do you then print the pdf with the comments next to it? Can't find anything online
– Added by an anonymous user on Mar 10, 2009 at 8:40 am
Thanks for the tip- very helpful (free) feature!
– Added by an anonymous user on Apr 29, 2009 at 11:40 pm
when i go to the annotate thing, it won't let me add a link! Help! It's so frustrating!?!?! I don't know what's wrong..?
– Added by an anonymous user on Aug 02, 2009 at 6:07 am
does it allow to save the annotations.
– Added by an anonymous user 5 days, 3 hours ago
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