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Adobe PDF Creation and Editing with PDFPen by SmileOnMyMac.com

Technology > Apple

Summary. PDFPen by SmileOnMyMac.com offers exceptional PDF Creation and Editing capabilities. With the cost of Adobe Acrobat Pro being about $450, PDFPen offers an economical alternative at only $50.

Features. PDFPen offers the following list of features.

  • Add text, images and signatures to PDF
  • Correct text in original PDF with editable text blocks
  • Move, resize, copy and delete images in original PDF
  • Perform basic OCR (Optical Character Recognition) on scanned documents
  • Insert and remove pages; re-order pages in a PDF by drag & drop; combine PDFs
  • Fill out and save PDF forms
  • Copy and paste rich text; retain fonts and formatting when copying from PDFs
  • Select and copy text across multiple columns
  • Add (and print) notes and comments
  • Markup documents with highlighting, underscoring and strikethrough
  • Save frequently-used images, signatures, objects and text in the Library
  • Use with PageSender for a paperless fax turnaround solution
  • Automate PDF manipulations with AppleScript

By Greg Johnson

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