PDFpen updated, now handles newer, non-standard PDFs
updated 04:30 pm EDT, Sat July 26, 2008
PDFpen adds adaptability
SmileOnMyMac this week released PDFpen 3.5, an update to its PDF-editing tool that improves its ability to open newer and non-standard PDFs. Version 3.5 also resolves some issues with the Correct text feature, fixing cases where text became garbled or disappeared, and adds other bug fixes and stability improvements. PDFpen is compatible with Mac OS X 10.4 and higher and costs $50. PDFpenPro, which adds cross-platform ready-to-fill PDF forms to the feature-list, is $100.
PDFpen can replace the text from an original PDF, move, resize, copy or delete images in a PDF and overlay text and/or images onto a PDF. The latter feature allows for signing PDFs with an image of a signature. Users can also insert, remove and reorder pages in a multipage PDF document (featuring single, facing-page, multi-page and multiple facing-page views). PDFpen is also AppleScriptable, adding automation to the program.
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Can't edit all PDFs...
This tool still will not let you fill in a PDF that the author does not deign to allow you to edit. I'm so tired of getting electronic documents that you have to print out and fill in by hand.
I'm hopeful that now that PDF is an open standard somebody will step up and make such a tool.
Pat