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removing all annotations in preview for sharing

hi there,

i have some pdfs i've annotated, but now i want to share them without those annotations. is there a way to remove or hide those annotations? it would just be too cumbersome if i'll have to remove them one by one, and i wouldn't want to have to make a duplicate every time i want to annotate a pdf later (one copy for annotating and the other as an original). so i'd really like to just annotate an original with the option to remove those annotations if i want to share the file later on.

thank you in advance!

Macbook, Mac OS X (10.6.6), Black 13" 2.16 Intel Core 2 Duo, 3 GB RAM, 500 GB HD,

Posted on Jan 25, 2011 4:39 PM

18 replies

Sep 21, 2015 8:04 AM in response to BDAqua

So stupid, I needed to annotate so that I could come back to the picture, and i cannot remove it. NOw I have a massive red star in the middle of the picture. Come on Preview, sort it out.

WZZZ

Level 6

13,226 points

Sep 21, 2015 8:19 AM in response to Solinlondon

This may help. Not free, but pretty effective for most situations. If by chance you still have AppleWorks in Snow Leopard, I found that was also helpful. Used copy (from a similar, non-annotated area) and dragged to the affected area. Do this in very small increments.

http://www.theinpaint.com/download.html

http://www.theinpaint.com/tutorials.html

Sep 30, 2015 7:53 AM in response to Wenneth

I'm so sorry not to have responded sooner. Thank you so much for coming back to me with this. Very helpful. But should be unecessary I feel. It seems you only learn when you may have made an irreperable mistake. Not very efficient.

removing all annotations in preview for sharing