Click the ‘Shapes’ icon to view a dropdown of the shapes you can inserts, click any shape and it will appear on your page.To add a shape – This can be really useful for highlighting areas of a document, much the way I do for the screenshots in this article. This also works with most checkboxes in PDF forms. To change the size, style, colour or alignment of your text, simply click the ‘Text Style’ icon and change the settings however you wish.īonus Tip! Editing Forms – Did you know that if you are sent an actual PDF form, you can usually fill in form blanks simply by clicking or double-clicking each form field. This is perfect for filling in PDF forms or adding text to a page. Simply click the ‘Text’ icon to add a text box to your page and start typing.To add text – either for annotating the document or for completing a form Click the toolbox to show the editing toolbar. You can also add a signature to the document and even reorder the pages. Once open, you can edit the file in a number of ways, you can select text and copy it to the clipboard, you can add text to the document or annotate it with text, shapes or colour highlights. By default it should open in Preview, but if not, open it by right clicking on the file and selecting Open With > Preview
Well, those days are so over now with the built in PDF editing features of Preview.īrowse to your PDF file or scanned image and open it. Eventually having to resort to printing the thing out, manually completing it, signing, scanning and sending it back – what a faff! When I first discovered the built in PDF editing and document signing features of my Mac, it literally changed my life! How many times have we wasted minutes, even hours, fiddling around trying to tweak documents for clients, drop their signatures into a PDF file or fill in details on an application form. We just assume that things can’t be done, without really looking into it. Especially for those of us who made the transition after years of working in a Windows only environment. It often surprises me how many of the features of a Mac are hidden in plain sight.
So here goes, the easiest ways to edit scanned documents, images or PDFs on Mac – and you’ll be amazed at how easy this is! Well, I hear you guys, and am more than happy to oblige.
Following on from this recent article for Windows, I know there’s been a buzz of excitement from the Mac fans in the room who to hear more tips 😉
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