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menu. Once you've made a selection, click and drag anywhere on the page
to add the annotation.
You can add the annotations toolbar by clicking the pen icon on the standard
toolbar (left of the search field at the top right of the program window). The
annotations toolbar provides quicker access to annotations functions.
Combining PDFs
To combine two or more PDFs, open the first of them in Preview and then
ensure the thumbnails sidebar is visible (View→Thumbnails). Locate in
Finder the second PDF you want to combine with the first, and drag it on top
of the thumbnail sidebar of the first PDF in Preview's sidebar. For an example,
new document anywhere within the page order of the original file—the existing
pages will slide out of the way to make a gap for you to drop in the new file.
To insert pages, you can also simply select a page within the thumbnail list
on the left, after which the pages will be inserted, and then click Edit→Insert
→Page from File (although the title of this menu entry is a misnomer—you
can actually insert multipage PDFs). Note the other entries on the Insert menu
too—you can insert a blank page and also scan in a page for insertion if you
have a scanner attached to your Mac.
Once the two documents are merged, you can reorder any of the pages—old
or new—by clicking and dragging them in the sidebar. If you have a multitouch
trackpad, pages can be rotated using the standard picture rotate gesture—be
sure to first place the mouse cursor over the body of the page in question or
over the thumbnail for the page.
Note that you can keep adding more PDFs by dragging and dropping them
onto the thumbnail preview drawer—you aren't limited to merging two files.
When done, click File→Export and give the merged document a new name.
Beware that simply saving the file will overwrite the original PDF you selected
for merging!
Adding Images to PDFs
You can also add images to a document; again just drag and drop them onto
the thumbnail preview drawer (View→Thumbnails) in the same way as
described earlier. Each image is given a new page. It's not possible to insert
images onto an existing page using Preview, although the signatures feature
