Receiving a PDF in OS X Mail, marking it up, and sending it back

Thank you for the reply. I’m familiar with how to get the PDF into preview to mark it up. But that is a ton of extra steps, especially if I want to get the pdf back into the original email to reply to it.

iOS allows me to long press a PDF from a sender *in* Mail. Then mark up. Then I just hit “Done” and the OS replies to the sender with their marked up PDF.

As it turns out, I learned in Ventura that if I set OS X mail to include attachments in reply, I can reply to the sender and then I have the ability to mark up the PDF directly in Mail. But now, every single email includes attachments in reply. That’s unnecessary. I can set the OS to ask me every time, if I want to include the attachments, but that’s pretty annoying.

Prior to Ventura, if I FORWARDED the email back to the sender, the OS would include the attachment. Then i could mark it up. That worked. But I just couldn’t shake the feeling, since it was so simple to do reply in iOS and mark up a PDF (without this “forward kludge) AND this has to be something people do all the time, that there must be a way to do this on the desktop OS also without having to do this “forward” work around. And that I was missing something.

Now in Ventura, the forward work-around doesn’t work. It just seems very strange to me this functionality for something so common, isn’t more elegant.

P.S. The use case is someone sends me a PDF, I want to sign it and send it back. So easy on iOS. Not so easy on the desktop OS. So I figured I’m just doing it wrong.