Company: Smile SoftwarePrice: $124.95Rating:Hot: Form creation; editing/annotation features;
page numbering; Continuity Camera scan-
ning; digital certificates supportNot: More shortcuts would be lovelyReview by Erik VlietinckPowerful PDF Editor for the Mac
PDFpenPro 11
If you need a PDF editor, you’ll have the option of buying one of
at least two popular apps for the Mac: PDF Expert or PDFpenPro.
I always thought that PDF Expert was more than sufficient for
whatever it is you’d like to do with PDFs but, after trying out
PDFpenPro 11, I’m convinced you’ll do better with the latter.
It has more useful features and is more powerful overall. The
only thing that I’d like to see more of in this app is better support
for shortcut keys.
It turns out that all versions of PDFpenPro come with more
than one ability that competing products still don’t have. That’s
probably not surprising given how long the app has been on the
market. The features that I tried out include: creating forms, which
works brilliantly; adding watermarks and page numbers (and Bates
numbers); and signing with a digital signature, as well as a scanned
image of your written signature. They all worked flawlessly in a
user-friendly environment and all of them are harder to do with
any other app—or impossible, if you’re on a Mac.
The new split-view mode allows you to edit and compare dif-
ferent pages of a document side by side, but I didn’t find a use for
that yet. Very useful features are the new Font Bar and the ability
to import scans from Continuity Camera, which worked extremely
well. The fact that I can customize page number locations is great;
but if you can’t, I don’t think it’s a deal breaker. The inclusion of
medical/legal dictionaries for OCR (English only) is nice.
For digital certificates, PDFpenPro uses the Adobe Approved
Trust List (AATL). PDFpenPro is capable of checking one of the two
existing systems that check whether a digital certificate has been
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