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Stuff people don't know about Preview.app: - Paste images that were copied to the clipboard. Just open Preview and press CMD-N - Split, re-arrange and merge P

Stuff people don't know about Preview.app: - Paste images that were copied to the clipboard. Just open Preview and press CMD-N - Split, re-arrange and merge PDF documents. Just drag pages into the sidebar - Sign documents. Click the annotation button in the menu bar, sign either on touchpad, ipad or hold an ink signature on paper into the webcam. - OCR (new with macOS ventura). Just click/drag/double-click on text in images. What more did I forget?

SllX 4y ago
> Paste images that were copied to the clipboard. Just open Preview and press CMD-N This one is new to me. TIL. Thanks!
dont__panic 4y ago
You can remove white/back backgrounds from images as well, with the "Magic Lasso" selection tool. Adjust the selection level until it covers the object you want, cmd+c to copy that object out of the image, then cmd+n to create a new image from that selection.
yamtaddle 4y ago
It's legit one of the reasons I'll have trouble ever leaving macOS. I've not seen anything as good at its particular niche. It's the perfect intersection of lightweight, snappy, reliable (so many other PDF tools are crashy or prone to getting in weird, broken states), and featureful.
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nathell 4y ago
OCR works for me in Monterey.
nabaraz 4y ago
I recently had to crop a pdf, Export pdf to png, crop and save as pdf. All from Preview app.
bbx 4y ago
Not really something you missed but if I want to increase the “viewport” of an image, I just take a screenshot (to clipboard), create a new document, paste the screenshot, and then go back to my original image and copy/paste it to the new document. This is helpful if you want to extend an image horizontally or vertically (or both). You could also increase the dimensions of the original image, but it would “zoom in”, which I don’t want. Not sure I explained it well…
rado 4y ago
Annotation. Colour correction including white balance picker. And so on

SllX 4y ago

> Paste images that were copied to the clipboard. Just open Preview and press CMD-N This one is new to me. TIL. Thanks!

dont__panic 4y ago

You can remove white/back backgrounds from images as well, with the "Magic Lasso" selection tool. Adjust the selection level until it covers the object you want, cmd+c to copy that object out of the image, then cmd+n to create a new image from that selection.

yamtaddle 4y ago

It's legit one of the reasons I'll have trouble ever leaving macOS. I've not seen anything as good at its particular niche. It's the perfect intersection of lightweight, snappy, reliable (so many other PDF tools are crashy or prone to getting in weird, broken states), and featureful.

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nathell 4y ago

OCR works for me in Monterey.

nabaraz 4y ago

I recently had to crop a pdf, Export pdf to png, crop and save as pdf. All from Preview app.

bbx 4y ago

Not really something you missed but if I want to increase the “viewport” of an image, I just take a screenshot (to clipboard), create a new document, paste the screenshot, and then go back to my original image and copy/paste it to the new document. This is helpful if you want to extend an image horizontally or vertically (or both). You could also increase the dimensions of the original image, but it would “zoom in”, which I don’t want. Not sure I explained it well…

rado 4y ago

Annotation. Colour correction including white balance picker. And so on