Inside PDF Annotations

Howard Oakley:

Preview has had more than its fair share of bugs in handling PDF annotations. During my research for this article, Preview 11.0 (1069.7.1) in macOS 15.6 was generally well behaved, but did mangle comments added to a test document by PDF Expert and Adobe Acrobat. Preview has two behaviours that can appear disconcerting: that of its Highlights and Notes tool, and its use of versioning.

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If Preview saves a mutilated PDF, you should be able to recover the previous version of that file using Revisionist or Versatility.

Previously:

• The State of Mac PDF Software

Bug Mac macOS 15 Sequoia PDF Preview.app

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