On a Mac, thePreviewprogram is a simple and easy-to-use option for editing PDFs.

Its about as extensive as any other PDF editor with the exception that it cant edit pre-existing text.

Once it’s open, go toFile>Opento find the PDF.

An edited PDF file in Preview on macOS High Sierra

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Preview also lets you rearrange pages in the PDF by dragging them up or down from the sidebar.

If you dont see the sidebar in Preview, you’re able to enable it from theViewmenu.

Preview Editing Tools

Most of the other PDF editing options in Preview are in theToolsmenu.

The Annotate menu in macOS Preview

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Its there that you’ve got the option to add a bookmark to the PDF or rotate pages.

Depending on your version of macOS, it’s called eitherShow Markup ToolbarorShow Annotations Toolbar.

We keep alist of free PDF editors, and most of them work on Macs, too.

How to export pages from a PDF file in Preview

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Another way to edit a PDF in macOS is to use an online PDF editor.

Through that list linked above are several of these kinds of services.

In a perfect world, a PDF editor would let you perform various actions on the PDF file.

The Sejda online PDF editor

Sejda’s Online PDF Editor.Screenshot

These actions could include adding shapes and signatures, as well as editing or adding text to the document.

As a result, editing the PDF can be challenging.

Those types of edits can be accomplished with adocument file converter, not a PDF editor.