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The Preview application built into MacOS is a powerful tool that allows you to edit and modify PDF Documents. These step by step instructions will help guide you through some of the more popular uses cases of the application.

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See Image at the bottom for Preview Applicaiton Layout.

Viewing your PDF Pages

  • Open Preview App or open the PDF document you want to view.

    • If Preview app is not the default app for PDFs, you will need to control + click for secondary options to display and Open With > Preview.

    • Navigate to the Side Bar toggle switch image-20240426-133108.pngImage Removed and

    • Select Thumbnails

This will allow you to scroll through all your PDF pages in the document.

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-While still having the Thumbnails showing in the Side bar on your current document

-Locate the additional pdf PDF File/s you would like to add to the current document

-Click and drag the pdf file/s that you have located to the side bar, and they will import into your current document where you can rearrange them as you please

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-Click on the Markup icon image-20240426-133513.pngImage Removed and then click on Signature icon image-20240426-133519.pngImage Removed

  • If you are creating a signature for the first time, click on Create Signature and create your signature.

  • If you already have a signature created, you simply click on the signature you want to use and it will drop that signature into your document where you can move it wherever you need to and resize if needed.

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-Click on the Markup icon image-20240426-133530.pngImage Removed and then select 1 of the options Draw/Sketch image-20240426-133535.pngImage Removed

-Draw will recognize what you are trying to draw and draw a figure for example if you are drawing a square, it will automatically create a square with straight lines.

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Redact Text/Images

-Click on the Redact icon image-20240426-133544.pngImage Removed icon and select the text/image you would like to redact. Once it

is redacted you will see image-20240426-133549.pngImage Removedover see over the text/imaged that you have selected to be redacted.

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