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Preview User Guide

• Welcome
• Get started
• Open PDFs and images
• View PDFs or images
  • View PDFs and images
  • Find text in PDFs
  • Interact with text in a photo
  • Bookmark PDF pages
  • View information about PDFs and images
  • Import images from a camera
  • See where a photo was taken
  • Display a PDF as a slideshow
  • View an animated GIF’s frames
• Edit PDFs
  • Fill out and sign PDF forms
  • Select and copy text in a PDF
  • Highlight, underline and strike out text
  • Add notes and speech bubbles to a PDF
  • Annotate a PDF
  • Combine PDFs
  • Add, delete or move PDF pages
  • Crop or rotate a PDF
  • Add effects to a PDF
• Edit images
  • Crop, resize or rotate an image
  • Convert image file types
  • Remove a background or extract an image
  • Annotate an image
  • See what an image looks like on another device
  • Apply a colour profile to an image
• Share PDFs or images
• Manage PDFs or images
  • Save PDFs and images
  • Revert changes to PDFs and images
  • Copy PDFs and images
  • Lock PDFs and images
  • Export PDFs and images
  • Password-protect a PDF
  • Reduce the size of a PDF
• Print PDFs and images
• Troubleshooting
  • If you can’t select or copy text in a PDF
  • If images or PDFs aren’t the correct size
  • If Go to Page shows the wrong page of a PDF
• Change Preview settings
• Keyboard shortcuts
• Copyright and trademarks

Preview can convert image files to many file types. This can be useful if you share files with people who use other kinds of computers, or if you want to open files in apps that don’t read all file types.

Open Preview for me

1. Go to the Preview app on your Mac.

2. Open the file you want to convert, then choose File > Export.

3. Click the Format pop-up menu, then choose HEIC, JPEG, JPEG-2000, OpenEXR, PDF, PNG or TIFF.

   If you can’t see the file type you want, press and hold the Option key and click the Format pop-up menu to see specialised or older formats.

   Depending on the file format you choose, additional options may appear. If you choose JPEG or JPEG 2000, you can adjust the image’s quality. If you choose PDF, you can choose a Quartz filter to apply to the image and you can encrypt the image so that only those with the password can view it.

4. Type a new name, or choose a new location for saving the converted file, then click Save.

Tip: To convert more than one image file at a time, open the files in one window, select them in that window’s sidebar, then follow the steps above.

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