Preview is the default application in macOS for image files, like JPG and PNG, and PDF files. While it's primary purpose offers you a quick and easy way to see various documents, it has several pretty cool editing and markup features you may not even be know are there.
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How to view photos and PDFs in Preview on Mac
Preview is the default app for viewing images and PDF files on your Mac. So, any time you double-click on, or otherwise launch, one of those files, it'll open in Preview.
If, for some reason, another app has taken over responsibility for a certain file type, and you want to give it back to Preview, you make the change right in the Finder.
How to crop documents in Preview on Mac
Preview can help you do some simple edit your photos and PDFs.
How to show markup tools in Preview on Mac
Preview has several tools to choose from to edit your photos including Selection, Sketch, Text, Color Adjust, and more. You just need to show the Markup Toolbar to see them all.
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How to annotate a document in Preview on Mac
Preview can allow you do various different types of annotations to documents, so whether you're going through a draft of a proposal or marking papers, you can make all the notes and marks you want.
From here you have a few options of what you can do, here's a quick breakdown.
Highlight Text
Allows you to highlight any selected text.
Underline Text
Allows you to underline any selected text.
Strike Through Text
Allows you to strike through any selected text.
Rectangle
Places a rectangular on the document, which you can move around and resize.
Oval
Places an oval on the document, which you can move around and resize.
Line
Places a line on the document, which you can move around and resize.
Arrow
Places an arrow on the document, which you can move around and resize.
Polygon
Places a Polygon on the document, which you can move around and resize.
Star
Places a Star on the document, which you can move around and resize.
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Places a Text box on the document.
Speech Bubble
Places a Text box on the document, which you can type a message inside the bubble.
Mask
Places a layer mask on the document, so you can make a passage stand out.
Loupe
Creates a magnifying circle, perfect for calling out small icons.
Note
Creates a note, so you can leave comments.
How to add your signature to a document in Preview on Mac
If you ever type up letters or need to sign a digital contract you can save your signature in Preview and then add it to any document you want. You can add your signature using a the trackpad or even using the built-in camera.
How to share documents from Preview on Mac
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Recently my wife and I were watching an episode of The Last Ship on TNT, and there was an part in which a woman, stranded on a small ship adrift, was providing her GPS coordinates to the (fictional) U.S. Navy destroyer, the USS Nathan James. So they could find her.
It got me wondering. With iPhone in hand:
So my wife and I started experimenting with a hypothetical scenario of a lost hiker who can, at least, transmit GPS derived latitude and longitude coordinates. You may already know how to do this with other tools than those I describe, but I thought many readers might not have a ready technique at their fingertips. Plus everyone is likely to have the apps I mention on their iPhone.
1. Display Latitude and Longitude
At first, (I was wrong) I thought that the iPhone does not have a built-in app that can display one's latitude and longitude. My first reaction was to go to one of my favorite apps, Nav Clock, which shows your latitude and longitude. (And it can be cut and pasted into another app.)
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Then our Dave Hamilton reminded me that an iPhone, out of the box, does have the ability to display LAT/LONG. That's Apple's Compass app. (It's not on the iPad because a Wi-Fi iPad doesn't have a GPS subsystem.)
Apple's Compass app for iPhone. (Exact location obscured.)
If you touch the latitude and longitude coordinates on the Compass app display, iOS Maps will launch and show you that location.
Part one solved.
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2. Find LAT/LONG on a Map
Google explains how to enter latitude and longitude coordinates into Google maps. On an iPhone (or iPad), it easiest to use the 'Degrees and decimal minutes' format. In the search field of Google maps, here's the format, for, say, north latitude and west longitude:
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For example, here's a location in southern Wyoming with simple integer degrees and minutes.
If you need east longitude, omit the minus sign. If you need southern latitude, put a minus in front. Note the blank space between degrees and minutes and the use of a comma between.
After you enter that into Google maps, it'll place a pushpin at that location and format the location as shown in the box under the search field in the screen shot below.
Google maps (iPad)
In this particular input format, if someone supplies their location in degrees, minutes, and seconds, you'll need to convert the seconds to decimal minutes by dividing by 60. For example, 41 deg 2 minutes 15 seconds converts to, in Google map input format, 41 2.25. A more precise input with decimal minutes might look like:
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Apple's Maps app in iOS accepts the same formated string for LAT and LONG and presents the same map information (but without the formatted coordinates on the map).
Summary
That TV episode got me thinking that it would be good to have information at my fingertips about how to display my coordinates with an iPhone and look up someone else's coordinates on a map. Perhaps, someday, remembering this easy procedure and common apps, the technique will come in handy.
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