

Even more useful, you also just set the new default as Preview remembers the last font size you specified, so next time it’ll be 12pt Helvetica, or whatever you specified. Just choose a smaller font size and it’ll clean up that doc in no time: Instead, you need to actually bring up the Edit Toolbar by clicking on the tiny toolbox at the top right of the document:Īhhh… now you see the toolbar and can click on the “A” (font) menu: I click out of the region, then click on it again to select it, then look on the “Tools” menu:īut it’s not. I’m filling out a PDF form and click in the space, then type in my name: The way that it’s designed to work with text annotation, however, is frustrating because there’s a menu item that’s not the correct choice, even though it absolutely seems like it should be.

Heck, you can scan and then insert your actual signature, something I’ve been doing for years with great effect.įrankly, I would be happy if I never had to print out a document so I could fill it out. You can also consolidate multiple PDFs into one, remove specific pages if you want to tweak things, and much more. But it actually lets you annotate PDFs and fill in PDF-based forms, among other things. It has a lot of capabilities that most people don’t realize because I suspect that just about everyone uses it as a PDF reader and nothing else. Now you're almost ready: press PDF -> Open in Preview to see the end result and save it.Of all the apps that get zero visibility in the Mac universe, there are few as useful and powerful as “Preview”.Now, in the Preview section (you might have to press Show Details if you don't see this part) select Scale to Fit: -> Fill Entire Page.Press OK, and make sure the newly create size is selected under Paper size.

