What Apple app is required to open .pdf files arriving by e-mail?

Attachments to e-mails are frequently in .pdf format. I'm unable to open them in Pages, iPhoto or Keynote. Help would be appreciated.

Double clicking the file icon should automatically launch the default application (Preview) and open the file. If you have Adobe reader installed, PDF files created with Adobe Acrobat or Adobe Distiller may default to Reader as the application to open them. Either way, it takes only a double-click on the icon to open the file.
And... Single page PDFs will usually be displayed in Mail itself (as well as in other email clients).
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