Preview (macOS)

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Preview

Preview 11.0 running on Big Sur
Developer(s)	Apple

Stable release	11.0

Operating system	macOS
Type	Image and PDF viewer
Website	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 images and Portable Document Format (PDF) files, it can also edit these media types. It employs the Aqua graphical user interface, the Quartz graphics layer, and the ImageIO and Core Image frameworks.