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preview apple wikipedia jump to content main menu main menu move to sidebar hide navigation main page contents current events random article about wikipedia contact us contribute help learn to edit community portal recent changes upload file special pages search search appearance donate create account log in personal tools donate create account log in contents move to sidebar hide top 1 history 2 features toggle features subsection 2 1 editing pdf documents 2 2 editing images 2 3 text recognition 2 4 import and export 2 5 scanning documents 3 supported file types 4 see also 5 references 6 external links toggle the table of contents preview apple 13 languages deutsch suomi français italiano 日本語 한국어 norsk bokmål português русский svenska türkçe українська 中文 edit links article talk english read edit view history tools tools move to sidebar hide actions read edit view history general what links here related changes upload file permanent link page information cite this page get shortened url switch to legacy parser print export download as pdf printable version in other projects wikidata item appearance move to sidebar hide from wikipedia the free encyclopedia image and pdf viewer software by apple preview software redirects here for the term used in software release cycles see technical preview preview preview 11 0 running on macos tahoe developer apple stable release 11 0 operating system macos ios 26 ipados 26 type image and pdf viewer license proprietary website support apple com guide preview part of a series on macos history and architecture architecture version history transition to intel processors transition to apple silicon darwin cocoa xnu versions version history rhapsody server 1 0 kodiak public beta cheetah 10 0 puma 10 1 jaguar 10 2 panther 10 3 tiger 10 4 leopard 10 5 snow leopard 10 6 lion 10 7 mountain lion 10 8 mavericks 10 9 yosemite 10 10 el capitan 10 11 sierra 10 12 high sierra 10 13 mojave 10 14 catalina 10 15 big sur 11 monterey 12 ventura 13 sonoma 14 sequoia 15 tahoe 26 golden gate 27 applications app store automator books calculator calendar contacts dashboard dictionary facetime finder game center grapher itunes history mail messages music notes notification center photo booth podcasts photos preview quicktime reminders safari sherlock stickies textedit time machine list of built in apps list of compatible software list of compatible games utilities activity monitor airport utility archive utility audio midi setup bluetooth file exchange colorsync console crash reporter digitalcolor meter directory utility diskimagemounter disk utility font book grab help viewer image capture installer keychain access migration assistant network utility odbc administrator remote install mac os x system preferences system information terminal universal access voiceover related operating systems classic mac os copland nextstep rhapsody darwin v t e preview is the built in image and pdf viewer of the ios ipados macos operating system in addition to viewing and printing digital images and portable document format pdf files it can also edit and annotate these media types it employs the quartz graphics layer and the imageio and core image frameworks history edit like macos preview originated in the nextstep operating system by next 1 where it was part of every release since 1989 between 2003 and 2005 apple claimed preview was the fastest pdf viewer on the planet 2 at wwdc 2025 apple announced that a version of preview would be coming to iphone and ipad devices with the release of ios 26 and ipados 26 3 in previous versions of these operating systems the viewing and editing of pdf files and digital images could be done through the files or notes apps features edit editing pdf documents edit preview 7 0 screenshot preview contains an edit button introduced in version 7 which includes options to insert shapes lines and do cropping preview can encrypt pdf documents and restrict their use for example it is possible to save an encrypted pdf so that a password is required to copy data from the document or to print it however encrypted pdfs cannot be edited further so the original author should always keep an unencrypted version some features which are otherwise only available in professional pdf editing software are provided by preview it is possible to extract single pages out of multi page documents e g pdf files sort pages and drag drop single or multiple pages between several opened multi page documents or into other applications such as attaching to an opened email message 4 in the ios and ipados versions of preview users also have access to the devices markup tools this allows signatures sketches and handwriting to be drawn directly onto the document via touch or the apple pencil 5 editing images edit preview offers basic image correction tools using core image processing technology implemented in macos and other features like shape extraction color extraction cropping and rotation tools when annotating images preview uses vector shapes and text until the image is rasterized to jpeg png or another bitmap format pdf and image documents can also be supplied with keywords and are then automatically indexed using macos s system wide spotlight search engine text recognition edit preview can recognize text contained in both text based document files and bitmapped non vector images like jpeg png etc it lets you select and copy text to paste into other applications translate selected text into another language or read aloud using the speak selection command of macos text recognition was added 2021 in macos monterey 6 with apple intelligence users can also use writing tools to proofread rewrite or summarise selected text 7 import and export edit preview can directly access image scanners supported by macos and import images from the scanner preview can convert between image formats it can export to bmp jp2 jpeg pdf pict png sgi tga and tiff using macos s print engine based on cups it is also possible to print into a postscript file a pdf x file or directly save the file in iphoto for example scanned photos beginning with mac os x 10 7 lion preview restricts the format option popup menu in the save as dialog to commonly used types it is possible to access the full format list by holding down the option key when clicking the format popup menu 8 gif icns jpeg jpeg 2000 microsoft bmp microsoft icon openexr pdf photoshop png sgi tga tiff scanning documents edit in the ios and ipados versions of preview the app can directly scan printed documents using the device s camera preview is able to automatically detect and crop the borders of a physical document and convert it into an editable pdf file 5 supported file types edit preview can open the following file types 9 ai adobe illustrator artwork files if pdf content included in file bmp windows bitmap files cr2 raw image file used by canon cameras dae collada 3d files dng digital negative files fax faxes fpx flashpix files gif graphics interchange format files hdr high dynamic range image files icns apple icon image files ico windows icon files jpeg joint photographic experts group files jpeg 2000 jpeg 2000 files obj wavefront 3d file openexr openexr files pdf portable document format version 1 5 some additional features pict quickdraw image files png portable network graphics files ppm netpbm color image files pntg macpaint bitmap graphic files ppt powerpoint files psd adobe photoshop files qtif quicktime image files rad radiance 3d scene description files raw raw image files sgi silicon graphics image files stl stereolithography 3d format tga targa image files tif tiff tagged image file format files xbm x bitmap files in macos monterey and earlier preview supported the display of eps and postscript documents using on the fly conversion to pdf format however this functionality was removed in macos ventura although users can continue to print eps and ps files by dragging them into the printer queue 10 the version of preview included with os x 10 3 panther could play animated gif images for which an optional button could be added to the toolbar 11 as of os x 10 4 tiger preview lost playback functionality and animated gif files are displayed as individual frames in a numbered sequence 12 see also edit list of pdf software references edit nextstep archived 2017 04 25 at the wayback machine brochure redwood city next computer february 1995 retrieved 2021 05 19 mac os x panther apple computer archived from the original on 2005 01 11 retrieved 2021 05 19 the mac s preview app is finally coming to your ipad lifehacker 9 june 2025 filipowicz luke 2016 11 19 how to use preview on mac imore retrieved 2025 09 17 1 2 adorno josé 2025 07 27 hands on with apple s all new preview app in ipados 26 bgr retrieved 2025 09 17 official apple support archived from the original on 2025 06 14 retrieved 2025 06 26 disotto philip berne contributions from john anthony updated graham barlow last 2024 06 10 apple intelligence explained apple ai for your iphone ipad and mac explained techradar retrieved 2025 09 17 cite web last2 has generic name help convert images in mac os x jpg to gif psd to jpg gif to jpg bmp to jpg png to pdf and more os x daily 2010 01 24 retrieved 2017 01 08 snider lesa 2014 12 30 the many superpowers of apple s preview app part 1 macworld idg retrieved 2017 11 18 view ps and eps files on mac apple support apple 2022 10 24 archived from the original on 2022 12 04 retrieved 2022 11 25 the preview app included with your mac supports postscript ps and encapsulated postscript eps files in macos monterey or earlier starting with macos ventura preview no longer supports these files use preview to play animated gifs mac os x hints idg 2003 04 08 archived from the original on 2020 08 06 retrieved 2021 05 19 view an animated gif s frames archived 2021 05 19 at the wayback machine preview help apple retrieved 2021 05 19 external links edit mac basics preview app views and edits images and pdfs appleinsider review from 2003 macpronews article pdf and panther the hidden role of pdf in mac os x 10 3 from july 2004 sams publishing sample chapter on preview from mac os x panther applications and utilities includes some instructions for use with screenshots v t e pdf software free and open source collabora online evince ghostscript libreoffice libharu mupdf okular pdf arranger pdf js pdf split and merge podofo poppler scribus skim sumatra pdf xpdf proprietary freeware foxit pdf reader pdf xchange viewer stdu viewer apple books commercial adobe acrobat nitro pdf pdf signer preview soda pdf wps office pdf studio smallpdf com list of pdf software v t e macos history architecture built in apps server software versions mac os x server 1 0 public beta 10 0 cheetah 10 1 puma 10 2 jaguar 10 3 panther 10 4 tiger 10 5 leopard 10 6 snow leopard os x 10 7 lion 10 8 mountain lion 10 9 mavericks 10 10 yosemite 10 11 el capitan macos 10 12 sierra 10 13 high sierra 10 14 mojave 10 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