


In Preview, it’s actually front and center on the Preferences… window! But let’s start with a PDF Preview that has a rather glaring yellow as its background color: This happens in graphics editors too, along with document editors like Pages and Word, and most of these programs let you tweak the background color to make it more pleasing to your eye or match your existing color palette, as desired. Like many other programs, Preview also has the concept of a window that’s often larger than what it’s displaying. It’s also completely compatible with Adobe Acrobat Reader and similar programs too, even on Windows, so it’s multiplatform friendly, which isn’t always true of Apple software (ever tried sending emoji in Messages to an Android user?) There are a lot of different programs for reading and reviewing PDF documents on a Mac OS X system nowadays, but I’m with you: the Apple Preview program is a winner, simple, elegant and easy to work with.
