Section 7.2. Acrobat Reader

7.2. Acrobat Reader

Acrobat Reader, which lets you read Acrobat (PDF) files, works precisely the same on the Mac as it does in Windows (except that it looks a little nicer on the Mac). If you'd like, you can download Acrobat Reader from www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html.

There are fewer and fewer reasons to use Acrobat Reader, though; you have a much nicer PDF-reading program right there in your Applications folder, called Preview.

Preview can read PDFs like the best of thembut it's also got Acrobat Reader covered on several other counts. Preview can annotate PDFs with virtual yellow sticky-notesa great tool for marking up book layouts before they go to press, for example. Also, Preview's search feature is so fast and convenient , it blows Acrobat Reader out of the water. And finally, Preview opens in a matter of seconds, while Acrobat Reader can take over a minute to launch. (For more on Preview, see Section 14.16.)