The most popular document viewer on Mac OS X
Preview is Mac OS X's application for displaying images and Portable Document Format (PDF) documents. Like OS X itself, it comes from NeXT's OPENSTEP operating system. Preview employs Apple's implementation of Adobe's PDF specification, and heavily uses Apple's Cocoa graphical user interface, Quartz graphics layer, and QuickTime image codec. Edit
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Did you create this app?| Website: | apple.com/macosx/featu... |
| Developer: | Apple Inc. |
| License: | Bundled |
| Version: | 5.0.1 |
| Rating: | Features: Interface: Performance: Price/value: Overall: |
| Usage: | 4 years, 2 months, 2 weeks, 3 days, 13 hours, 27 minutes and 48 seconds |
| Usage since: | 08 May 2007 |
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The best file viewer on any platform. Makes me annoyed any time I'm on Windows, quite frankly.
It does what it says it does and it does it well.
One of my most used programs on Mac
Awesome application for viewing images and PDF files. Also great for making small tweaks to images and saving them as different formats.
my favorite pdf viewer
I don't have Adobe reader on my machine for a reason. It's slow and bloated. Preview is best at making quick crops to images and viewing PDFs.
Great App , very fast PDF reader and great to make a small fixes for Photos
Does my PDFs fine. The new selection thing is cool.
This is the document viewer. Nice, clean and a great performance!
Such a lightweight application?! Open images and maybe a PDF all in 1 second.
Love it!
ahahah its great.
Better then anything microsoft offer.
preview is great
The best preview app! Every time I use it I discover something new, from just viewing pictures and pdfs to organizing and merging pdf documents, commenting, cropping pictures and playing slideshows.