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If you ever want to revert back to using macOS Preview for opening PDFs, you simply repeat the process but select Preview from the list of applications instead of Adobe Reader.

Click on Change All to ensure that Adobe Reader is the default tool to open PDFs on your Mac.įrom now on, macOS will use Adobe Reader as the default application to open and edit PDFs.

In the Get Info dialog box that appears, click on the drop down menu for Open With and select Adobe Acrobat Reader from the list of applications available.

Select Get Info from the drop down list of options that appears:

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Select any PDF file on your Mac and CTRL-click on it.

However, even if you’ve already got Adobe Acrobat on your Mac, it may not be set as your default app to open PDFs in macOS Big Sur or Monterey.īy default, macOS uses Preview to open PDFs but you can easily change this in just a few clicks.įollow these instructions to set Adobe Acrobat as the default PDF application on a Mac.

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Since Adobe invented the PDF format, it’s no surprise that Adobe Acrobat is by far the best PDF software for Mac and it makes sense to use it as your default PDF tool in macOS.

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Here we show you how to make Adobe Acrobat the default app to open PDFs on a Mac. If you want text and are okay with using something other than Preview, then the free version of PDF Expert described here is a good solution.Although you can use Preview in macOS to open PDFs for free, you can’t edit PDFs on a Mac with it. The above do not preserve text, but produce images. Converting the resulting images into a PDF is done with a very simple Automator action, shown below: The first ffmpeg command inverts the colors of the screen recording and the second ffmpeg command places images from the screen recording into a sub folder at the rate of 2 per second. jpg's in the sub folder, right click and choose the Automator action shown below to make a new PDF

Use QuickTime to make a screen recording (m.mov) of the white background pdf while clicking from page to page at, say 2 pages every second.

Here's a workaround for a large number of pages, but it involves using ffmpeg and Automator

repeat for each page then File>Export>PDF.

In the Adjust Color Tool, switch the outer handles as shown in the animated.

Here is a work around for those who want to use Preview:

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While many web sites direct you to download Adobe Reader to open PDFs, I recommend that you use Preview instead, as it’s faster and less clunky than Reader, and it has more user-friendly annotation tools. Preview is a PDF and image viewer made by Apple that comes installed with the Mac OS. To open a PDF file select open from the file menu and browse for the file to open drag a PDF file onto the PDFViewer icon ctrl click (or right button click if you have a multi-button mouse) on a PDF file From the menu choose open with, then select PDFViewer PDFViewer can now be set as the default viewer for PDF files. Here's an example in "dark mode" (Hex color = #002B37, opacity = 75%). Change the Default PDF Reader to Preview. It's advisable to minimize the size (height) of the reading bar and tuck it somewhere out of the way. One word of caution: Inverting the reading bar makes the whole document your desired color and the reading bar an awful glaring white.

Fast to change the color from a "dark mode" to a "light mode" and back.

Easy to toggle on/off using cmd + shift + b.

If you never use the reading bar for its intended purpose, this workaround won't interfere with your usual use of the app. Here's an example that gives Skim a solarized feel (Hex color = #B68A00, opacity = 50%). At 100% the document is completely hidden at 30% the trick has little effect.

Select the desired color and opacity (50-80% depending on the color)Īll this does is add a layer of color over the top of the pdf.

A simple workaround to change the background color in Skim is to (ab)use the reading bar preferences: The default image viewer on Mac is Preview, a stock macOS app that actually originated at NeXT.