

It’s fast, functional and free, and it was designed by Apple to work within the Mac OS. Preview is truly a hidden gem that’s built into Mac OS X. So 90% of the time, I’m opening PDFs in Preview, the excellent image viewer that’s built into Mac OS X.
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This may seem like a silly question, but PDFs are indispensable to the practice of law so this is an important consideration.Īs I wrote in my review of Adobe Acrobat 9 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.Ībout 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.
