Pdf Reader For Mac Os X Lion

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Pdf Reader For Mac Os X Lion Free Download

PDF Studio Viewer is a great, reliable PDF viewer for Mac that renders PDF documents with high fidelity (including digital signatures), and allows users to annotate documents as well as fill interactive forms.

Of course, starting with OS X Lion, the native Mac PDF viewer also offers some basic editing functions, but if you're looking for something different, here are some of the best free alternatives you can find.

Mac OSX versions supported: 10.15 (Catalina), 10.14 (Mojave), 10.13 (High Sierra), 10.12 (macOS Sierra), 10.11 (El Capitan), 10.10 (Yosemite), 10.9 (Mavericks), 10.8 (Mountain Lion), 10.7 (Lion)

PDF Studio Viewer is a very advanced PDF reader for Mac that supports more PDF features than Mac Preview when it comes to rendering PDF documents:

Review & markup PDFs (with text, graphics annotations & markups)
Validates digital signatures
Opens encrypted (password protected) documents (including 256 bit encryption)
Text selection that follows the natural order
Quick navigation through thumbnails, bookmarks, signatures and comments panes
Advanced tools such as continuous zoom, snapshot tool, loupe tool, pan and zoom tool
Render PDF documents with high fidelity
- Supports all fonts
- Supports all images
- PDF layer support
Support for file attachments
High DPI screen support (4k and over)
Rulers & Grids
Touch Mode
& more…

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If you need more reviewing and editing features, Qoppa Software also publishes PDF Studio Standard and Pro editions which are great alternatives to Adobe Acrobat®, offeredat an unbeatable price and that offer many additional functions:

Create PDF from scan and other formats
Document & Page Assembly
Content Editing
Digital Signatures
Convert to and from PDF
Interactive Form Designer
OCR (Text Recognition)
Reduce File Size
Preflight, Imposition
Compare PDFs (Overlay & Side by Side)

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Preview

Platform: Mac OS X
Price: Free
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Features

View and edit images in addition to PDF files
Annotate, highlight, and mark up PDFs in several ways
Digitally fill out forms
Sign PDF documents with your webcam (read on for more info)
Super-fast performance
Super-fast search
Insert new pages into PDFs
View and edit PDF metadata
Add and edit hyperlinks in a PDF file

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Where It Excels

Preview is fast. Mac OS X isn't exactly known for its speed and efficiency, so Preview's ability to blow through PDF documents is pretty impressive. But among its many handy highlighting and annotating features, which are all solid, its ability to fill out forms is especially impressive. This may seem like a mundane thing, but when you get to the signature line it is hard to eschew at least a little reverence. Preview (in Lion) has a feature where you can sign a piece of paper, hold it up to your computer's webcam, and it'll turn it into a high-quality signature you can place in a form. It can also save multiple signatures so you don't have to continuously repeat this process. Preview is solid all-around, but it's those sorts of features that make it amazing.

Where It Falls Short

As incredible as Preview's webcam signature feature is, it seems kind of strange that there is no ability to sign with your trackpad as well. After all, Apple Stores let you sign for purchases with your finger on an iPod touch. Additionally, Preview wasn't exactly perfect prior to Lion and Lion isn't exactly perfect on its own. It's hard to justify upgrading to OS X 10.7 if Preview is the only draw. If you're sticking with Snow Leopard, your version of Preview isn't bad but it's certainly not the best PDF editor/viewer you can find. Apple fixed a lot of quirks in Lion, which make it a pleasure to use, but if you're not running Lion you're pretty much out of luck.

The Competition

PDFPen costs $60 but is pretty great. If you need more features than Preview can provide, it'll get the job done. PDFPen makes page rearrangement, editing, multi-document assembly, and more very easy. While it's on the expensive side, consider it a cheaper alternative to Adobe Acrobat ($200). We've never loved Acrobat and it likely provides more features than you're going to need.

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~~Wondershare PDF Editor~~ ($50) is another pricey option, but it has the ability to convert PDFs to Microsoft Word documents. We're not sure how well this works, but you might want to give it a try if that's something you need. Wondershare placed a false claim on their PDF Editor software that we considered it the best. They even created a fake Lifehacker approval image to act as if we provided them with an official award. We listed it as an alternative here, but as Wondershare has opted to falsely market their product with a seal of approval from us that we never provided, we ask that you do not buy from them.

Skim is a great choice if your primary focus is annotation as that's what it was design to do. It has an impressively long list of features to make annotation easy.

Got any other favorite PDF editor/viewer apps for Mac that you love? Share 'em in the comments.