Tag: Preview

Preview is Mac OS X’s application for displaying images and Portable Document Format (PDF) documents. Like Mac OS X itself, it comes from NeXT’s OPENSTEP operating system.
Preview employs Apple’s implementation of Adobe’s PDF specification, and makes significant use of Apple’s Aqua graphical user interface, the Quartz graphics layer, and the ImageIO and CoreImage frameworks
Preview can open the following file types:
The version of Preview included with OS X 10.3 could loop animated GIFs via an optional “play” button that could be added to the toolbar. With OS X 10.4, Preview lost playback functionality and animated GIFs would instead display as individual frames in a numbered sequence.
Preview offers basic image correction tools using Core Image processing technology implemented in Mac OS X, and other features like shape extraction, color extraction, cropping, and rotation tools. Also, some features which are otherwise only available in professional PDF editing software are provided…