PDF or Apple Preview

Hello,
I am looking to get rid of One Drive and go full time with iCloud Drive, but here is my situation every piece of propaganda states you can now save all types of Doc.s in iCloud drive but how to you either preview (look at) pdf files or Apple preveiw files on like your iPad without using so many different apps? Can some one point me in the right direction?
Phil

Many iCloud Drive file types sent as attachments to yourself can be viewed by Quick Look in iOS Mail, including:
• .doc, .docx — Microsoft Word
• .htm, .html — webpage
• .key — Keynote
• .numbers — Numbers
• .pages — Pages
• .pdf — Preview, Adobe Acrobat
• .ppt, .pptx — Microsoft PowerPoint
• .rtf — Rich Text Format
• .txt — text
• .vcf — contact information
• .xls, .xlsx — Microsoft Excel
• .zip — compressed archive file
There is even an "Attachments" mailbox where all messages containing attachments are collected for viewing.
As of yet there is no dedicated iCloud Drive app from Apple. However, there are third-party apps to fill the gap such as the document viewer, file manager, and media player Documents 5 by Readdle.

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:: Tuesday, January 29th, 2013 @ 5:29:46 am
:: Tags: Computers
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Welcome to Apple Discussions!
Preview supports only the open source PDF standard.
Adobe Acrobat Reader the latest version supports almost all PDF files, unless you don't install custom fonts that certain people sometimes add to their PDF.
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No sense posting here unless you have a problem. If you want to report this to Apple, either send Feedback or send bug reports and enhancement requests via its Bug Reporter system. To do the latter, join the Apple Developer Connection (ADC)—it's free and available for all Mac users and gets you a look at some development software. Since you already have an Apple username/ID, use that. Once a member, go to Apple BugReporter and file your bug report/enhancement request. The nice thing with this procedure over submitting feedback is that you get a response and a follow-up number; thus, starting a dialog with engineering.

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Launch the Terminal app in /Applications/Utilities/, copy & paste this command into the window, substituting your value for XX (mine's set at 30), hit the return key, quit Terminal, and Preview's recent items should grow to that number:
*defaults write com.apple.Preview NSRecentDocumentsLimit XX*
Note, that for a system-wide change, run this command in the Terminal:
*defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSRecentDocumentsLimit XX*
To apply it to another application change the com.apple.YYYY to reflect the plist file structure noted in your user's /Library/Preferences/.

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This is because of the new versioning.
As I recall this is what I did.
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I am not sure how I created the new blank page. I may have created it with Adobe first.
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Now when you click Save you should be asked for a new name.
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No one here can tell you what plans Apple have for anything. Even if they knew they would be excluded from saying by NDAs and so on.
Skim
http://skim-app.sourceforge.net
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