This may seem like a silly question, but PDFs are indispensable to the practice of law so this is an important consideration. As I wrote in my for Law.com, PDF has become the lingua franca of legal documents – it is the standard for electronic filing, scanned documents, digital signatures, form distribution and much more. This means lawyers and legal professionals have to open and read a LOT of PDF files every day. Opening & reading a PDF About 90% of the time, all we need to do is open and read a PDF – we don’t need to highlight or annotate anything, create bookmarks, or do anything else except just read the content. So 90% of the time, I’m opening PDFs in, the excellent image viewer that’s built into Mac OS X. Preview is truly a hidden gem that’s built into Mac OS X. It’s fast, functional and free, and it was designed by Apple to work within the Mac OS. It’s the default viewer for image files such as JPG or TIFF, as well as PDFs.

That means out of the box, your Mac will open Preview when you double-click a PDF file. I choose to leave Preview as my default PDF viewer, even though I have both and on my system.

I leave Preview as my default PDF viewer because it’s fast and performs admirably when I simply need to open and read a PDF. When you need to do more with a PDF Preview is “free” since it’s built into the Mac OS – you get it with any Mac you buy. In additional to simply opening and reading a PDF file, Preview is also excellent for sorting pages in an PDF, extracting certain pages out of a PDF, and dragging & dropping pages from one PDF file to another. Preview does have some basic annotation tools which are nice, but they don’t quite rise to the “professional” level. That’s when I turn to PDFpen from, or Acrobat Professional from.

Find a PDF document in your Mac. Then do a command + I in order to get the information window open. Towards the bottom of that window, you'll see 'Open with' and the default application selected. Seer supports audio, video, ZIP, RAR and not to mention text files. Office documents are not supported at the moment, but PDF files are shown in the preview along with folder contents.

PDFpen from Smile Software PDFpen offers a nice, intuitive interface that allows you to easily add a graphical signature, highlight text, annotate with a circle, place a stamp, and a myriad of other features. The standard version of PDFpen is only $59.95, and the Pro version is only $99.95. Torrent fl studio 12 mac producer editon. That’s a terrific bargain compared to Adobe Acrobat Standard at $299 and Acrobat Professional at $449. But while I’m a big fan of PDFpen, I usually turn to Acrobat Professional when I need more features to interact with my PDF files. Adobe Acrobat Professional Acrobat is the original author of the portable document format (), and even though they have freely and graciously licensed it over the years, they developed the original so they know PDF the best.