Making Annotations in Preview PERMANENT

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Making Annotations in Preview PERMANENT

Hopefully this hasn't been asked somewhere else.

I have annotated lots of PDF's in Preview on my MacBook. It appears that these annotations are not permanent. When I have uploaded them to a site called Moxtra, they are uploaded as the raw PDF that I started with, without any of my annotations (ie. highlighting, titles, footnotes, etc.). Is there an easy way to make these annotations totally permanent (similar to flattening an image in Photoshop)?

MacBook

Posted on Jul 11, 2013 11:46 AM

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Axeman1020

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Jul 11, 2013 11:52 AM in response to tnwinchester

After you annotate, ⌘+P then click the PDF dropdown and save as PDF. That will create a flattened PDF with the changes.

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tnwinchester Author

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Jul 11, 2013 12:00 PM in response to Axeman1020

You're wonderful. Thank you so much!!! Worked perfectly!

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tnwinchester Author

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Jul 11, 2013 12:02 PM in response to tnwinchester

Uh oh. I didn't understand the "This solved my question" vs "This helped me" point system until now. If you post again I'll give you a "This solved my question"... Sorry about that.

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