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Personally I find that Apple Preview has always been good enough for these tasks. It can also do a surprising amount of PDF editing: for example, you can draw annotations on pages (for highlights and signatures), and selectively combine pages from multiple PDF documents into one by simple copy & paste.

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"Personally I find that Apple Preview has always been good enough for these tasks."

OSS is a good choice because not every developer works on a Mac and with binary apps. You can hack quite a few quick/dirty tools to deal with repetitive tasks. Having said that Apple Preview is a pretty useful tool.

Except Preview 8 (post-Mavericks) sucks. Annotations of any kind always appear in the center of the page and have to be manually moved into position, it doesn't easily recognize selections, combined documents don't always retain changes, I could go on. I have a Mavericks VM just for Preview 7.

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