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Preview User Guide

Although you can’t edit the text of a PDF in Preview, you can use the markup tools to provide feedback or write down something you want to remember. The editing tools in the Markup toolbar are ideal for collaborating—use them to suggest changes to a PDF and to respond to suggestions.

1. In the Preview app on your Mac, click the Show Markup Toolbar button (if the Markup toolbar isn’t showing).

2. Use the tools in the toolbar to mark up the PDF (or use the Touch Bar).

   Tool	Description
   Text Selection	Select text to copy or delete. See Select and copy text in a PDF.
   Rectangular Selection	Select a rectangular area in an image to copy or delete.
   Redact Selection	Select text to permanently remove it from view. You can change the redaction as you edit, but once you close the document, the redaction becomes permanent. To safeguard the original document, create a duplicate to redact.
   Sketch	Sketch a shape using a single stroke. If your drawing is recognized as a standard shape, it’s replaced by that shape; to use your drawing instead, choose it from the palette that’s shown.
   Draw	Draw a shape using a single stroke. Press your finger more firmly on the trackpad to draw with a heavier, darker line. This tool appears only on computers with a Force Touch trackpad.
   Shapes	Click a shape, then drag it where you want. To resize the shape, use the blue handles. If it has green handles, use them to alter the shape. You can zoom and highlight shapes using these tools: Loupe: Drag the loupe to the area you want to magnify. To increase or decrease the magnification, drag the green handle; drag the blue handle to change the loupe size. Highlight : Drag the highlight where you want. To resize it, use the blue handles. See Rotate and modify shapes added to a PDF.
   Text	Type your text, then drag the text box where you want.
   Sign	If signatures are listed, click one, then drag it where you want. To resize it, use the blue handles. To create a new signature: Using your trackpad: Click Trackpad, click the text as prompted, sign your name on the trackpad using your finger, press any key when you’re finished, then click Done. If you don’t like the results, click Clear, then try again. If your trackpad supports it, press your finger more firmly on the trackpad to sign with a heavier, darker line. Using your computer’s built-in camera: Click Camera. Hold your signature (on white paper) facing the camera so that your signature is level with the blue line in the window. When your signature appears in the window, click Done. If you don’t like the results, click Clear, then try again. Using your iOS or iPadOS device: Click Select Device to choose a device (if more than one is available. On your device, use your finger or Apple Pencil to sign your name, then click Done. If you don’t like the results, click Clear, then try again. Your devices must meet Continuity system requirements. See the Apple Support article System requirements for Continuity on Mac, iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, and Apple Watch. See Fill out a PDF form.
   Note	Type your text. To change the note color, Control-click the note, then choose a color. To move the note to a different location, drag it. See Add notes and speech bubbles to a PDF.
   Shape Style	Change the thickness and type of lines used in a shape, and add a shadow.
   Border Color	Change the color of the lines used in a shape.
   Fill Color	Change the color that’s used inside a shape.
   Text Style	Change the font or the font style and color.
   Annotate , ,	Annotate the item by sketching or drawing on it using your nearby iPhone or iPad . If both devices are nearby, click , then choose a device. The tool may appear highlighted to show your device is connected. To disconnect your device without using it, click the tool again. Your devices must meet Continuity system requirements. See the Apple Support article System requirements for Continuity on Mac, iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, and Apple Watch.

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In my course, I teach students how to write an abstract. For this purpose, I have to find academic journal articles (almost always in PDF format) and delete the abstract from the first page, so the student can practice writing one. This is always a painful process because I do not own Adobe Acrobat Pro.

Today I found a new method to delete content from a PDF using MacOS’s built-in image editor, Preview. Preview allows you to redact (i.e. censor/obscure) sections of a document . This feature is not available in the free version of Adobe Acrobat Reader (only in the Pro version).

Note 1: Preview automatically saves changes, so make a copy (to be safe) of the PDF you want to edit and then follow these steps.

Redacting Sections of a PDF with Preview on a Mac

1. Right-click on the PDF, and open it in Preview.
2. In Preview, go to the View menu and select Show Markup Toolbar
3. From the Markup Toolbar, select the Redact button (see purple arrow below).

The redact feature was designed to let you delete sensitive information from a text. This will permanently delete the text/image below whatever you redact.

4. Highlight the text or section you’d like to redact. Once you highlight it, the text/section will turn grey and then black (it looks like a black envelope). See below.

Once the file is saved, the information you’ve redacted is now permanently gone. For my purposes, I think this black box looks a little suspicious (I feel it might suggest to my students that I’m hiding something from them), so I cover it with a white box. To do this, follow these steps:

1. On the Markup Toolbar, click on the Color box (see below) and select white.

2. Choose the rectangle from the shapes tool on the toolbar.

3. Now draw a rectangle anywhere in your document. Once the white rectangle is there, move and resize it to cover the redacted area.

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4. Save the file.

Note that this solution is not perfect. When a user opens the saved PDF in Adobe Acrobat reader, she will quickly see a flash as the white box covers the redacted area. Also, if they open it in Acrobat (and not through their browser), they can highlight the white box and delete it, though this isn’t a major problem because it only shows the black redacted area below, and not the original text).

This is my workaround for editing a PDF for the purposes of hiding a section. Hopefully, someone else will find this useful.

– Matthew Barton / Creator of Englishcurrent.com