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Comment by harrouet

9 hours ago

If you use a Mac, you'd be amazed at how many things can't be done on Windows without 3rd-party software.

Do you know how to spot a Windows user ? They print-and-scan to merge their PDFs.

That is a nice function of Preview indeed.

On the other hand, at least since a couple of releases, I have lots of troubles with the highlight annotation in Preview, especially in PDFs with tables. So much so that I have to resort to 3rd party software for that (PDF Expert in my case).

But yeah, PDF support is basically native in macOS since Mac OS X.

Actually I thought the same for macOS for certain things, like window management was way better on Windows than on macOS (snapping etc.) Luckily after years macOS finally has something decent to organize windows. I know that there were 3rd party apps like rectangles but something simple like organizing windows missing from a desktop OS always felt weird.

This is a weird comment because I feel the same about getting macOS to a useable place.

I probably have 5 or 6 things installed on my Mac like Scroll Reverse and Rectangle, just trying to beat the window manager into something that resembles useable.