![]() ![]() When I need to complete a form or add a signature in a PDF, I always start with PDFpenPro. It's simple interface is not intimidating, and you can figure out many of the application's features without even looking at the manual.Įven though Adobe Acrobat is a critical application that I rely on all the time, I often perform basic PDF edits in PDFpenPro. Applications like Adobe Reader and Preview apparently re-render onscreen text every time you zoom in or out, which isn't as big of a deal since they don't include as many editing capabilities as PDFpenPro.Įditing PDF documents and creating fillable PDF forms doesn't necessarily require Adobe Acrobat thanks to PDFpenPro. Re-rendering the anti-aliased text while you are editing a document can have a significant impact on performance, and there doesn't seem to be an efficient way to handle that process for off-screen cached copies of files. For PDFpenPro, however, that could substantially slow down the application, so the developers chose efficiency over beauty in this case. The problem arises from a coding decision at SmileOnMyMac that favors performance over display quality. At some magnification levels, document text becomes very blurry but still readable. I did find a minor issue with screen redraws when magnifying a document. PDFpenPro's text editing and notation tools. ![]() All of those useful tools are available in an unobtrusive interface that's easy to master. ![]() PDFpenPro is a full-on PDF editor that supports reordering pages in a document, combining pages from multiple documents, creating fillable PDF forms, manipulating or deleting images, adding images, replacing document text, and automating document editing through AppleScript. Why do we need another application that reads PDF documents? Because PDFpenPro lets you edit, modify, and sign the PDFs you work with - and it does all that with a user-friendly interface and an affordable price - that's why. We already have Preview, Acrobat, and Adobe Reader. While the app’s new editing bar makes the program easier to use, it’s features such PDFpenPro’s form-recognition tool and excellent PDF-to-Word conversion tool that continue to make PDFpenPro a constant companion in my daily workflow.By Jeff Gamet, 2:45 PM EST, March 1st, 2007 PDFpenPro is the crème de la crème of PDF editing and annotating applications. Otherwise, both versions of PDFpenPro support syncing through your Dropbox account. So if you, like me, want to have direct access to your PDF documents via iCloud on your Mac and your iOS devices, you must purchase the App Store version. The direct-download version no longer supports access to iCloud using Smile Software’s PDFpen Cloud access app. It’s important to note that one minor difference separates theĭirect-download versions of PDFpenPro, and your needs may affect your decision about how to purchase the app. In short, the inline editing features are optimal for rearranging images and making minor edits to text, but if you’re planning on making big changes to a PDF file, you’re better off converting the file to Word and editing there. Although this feature works well enough, in most cases the changes you make will alter the font in the edited text and make it look different from the text in the rest of your document. PDFpenPro also allows you to edit the text within your PDF file without converting it to a Word format. Best of all, editing the converted Word document was as easy as editing a document created from the ground up in Word. Graphics appeared as individual, selectable entities and not as part of the paragraph text. Tables rendered properly, and all the text within the tables was editable. On the whole, however, I found PDFpenPro’s Word-conversion capabilities to be excellent. This conversion process is fraught with some of the same PDF-to-text conversion wonkiness you’ll find in any application of this sort-you’ll end up with some odd font choices, strange page and section breaks, and headers and footers that appear as a part of your body text. This feature requires Internet access since it involves uploading the PDF document to a server, converting the file, and then downloading it as a Word document, all with your permission. Another feature added to PDFpenPro allows you to convert any PDF document into a Microsoft Word document. ![]()
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