Editing Preview (macOS) (section)

{{short description|Image and PDF viewer software by Apple}}
{{redirect|Preview (software)|the term used in software release cycles|Technical preview}}
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{{Infobox software
| name = Preview
| logo = Preview icon.png
| logo_size = 
| logo alt = photograph and loupe
| screenshot = Preview (macOS).png
| screenshot_size = 250px
| caption = Preview 11.0 running on [[macOS Big Sur|Big Sur]]
| genre = [[Image viewer|Image]] and [[PDF viewer]]
| developer = [[Apple Inc.|Apple]]
| latest release version = 11.0
| operating system = [[macOS]]
| website = {{ url | support.apple.com/guide/preview }}
}}
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'''Preview''' is the built-in [[image viewer]] and [[PDF viewer]] of the [[macOS]] operating system. In addition to viewing and printing [[digital image]]s and [[Portable Document Format]] (PDF) files, it can also edit these media types. It employs the [[Aqua (user interface)|Aqua graphical user interface]], the [[Quartz (graphics layer)|Quartz]] graphics layer, and the ImageIO and [[Core Image]] frameworks.