Articles tagged Acrobat.

Best PDF viewer for the Mac: Reader vs Preview

April 22, 2011 07:06 by: Karl Johnson   2 Comments

Categories: iOS Applications , Review

Tagged: Acrobat , Adobe , OS_X , PDF , Preview

Today's computers need a Portable Document Format (PDF) viewer as much as a Browser. This read only file format, which stores text, images, and vector graphics also meets secure legal document requirements. Printing to PDF is a great way to save web pages from the internet as it can be viewed on most platforms with a free viewer. Fortunately, Mac users have two free popular options for a PDF viewer: Adobe's Reader and Apple's Preview.

Adobe created the PDF document standard in 1993. Since then, they have provided a reader for many platforms including the Mac. This would seem the obvious choice for a PDF viewer, except Apple's own application Preview comes standard with OS X. Is it worth the effort to install Reader, or is it better to just use Apple's default Preview? Lets find out.

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