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FOR RELEASE OCTOBER 1, 2008 (ANY TIME)

PDFpen 4.0.1 ADDS PREFERENCES FOR OCR PROMPTING, BUG FIXES

Reviewer's guide:
http://www.smileonmymac.com/PDFpen/PDFpen4revguide.pdf

Press kit:
http://www.smileonmymac.com/PDFpen4-presskit.zip

San Francisco, CA - October 1, 2008 - SmileOnMyMac has released PDFpen 4.0.1, an update to its PDF editing software for Mac OS X. The update adds preferences for OCR (Optical Character Recognition) prompts when opening a scanned PDF document or selecting text on a scanned page. The update also includes bug fixes.

All the changes in PDFpen 4.0.1 have also been made in PDFpenPro 4.0.1, the Pro version that has the ability to create fillable PDF forms and document Table of Contents, in addition to all the features of PDFpen.

PDFpen 4.0.1 can be downloaded at http://www.smileonmymac.com/PDFpen/download.html. The update is free for registered users of PDFpen 4.0.

PDFpen costs $49.95. PDFpenPro costs $99.95. Family Pack licenses, which cover up to 5 computers in one household, are $74.95 for PDFpen and $129.95 for PDFpenPro. Upgrades from earlier versions are $25.00, and free to users who purchased after June 1, 2008. Upgrades from any version of PDFpen to PDFpenPro 4.X are $50.

PDFpen and PDFpenPro require Mac OS X 10.4 or later. An Intel 1.8 Ghz processor or above is recommended for OCR. Fully-functional demo versions are available at http://www.smileonmymac.com/PDFpen/download.html.

What's new in PDFpen 4.0.1:
- Added preferences for OCR prompting
- Fixed accuracy of search selection in columnar documents
- Fixed highlight over-drawing problem
- Fixed underline positioning
- Fixed table of contents editing on Mac OS X 10.4 (PDFpenPro only)
- Other minor fixes and improvements

PDFpen 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 Optical Character Recognition (OCR) 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
- Create cross-platform fillable PDF forms (requires PDFpenPro)
- Create and edit Table of Contents (requires PDFpenPro)
- Use with PageSender for a paperless fax turn-around solution
- Automate PDF manipulations with AppleScript
- Available in English, Japanese, German, Italian, and French

Requirements:
- Mac OS X 10.4 and later
- For OCR, an Intel 1.8 Ghz processor or above is recommended.

PDFpen Pricing:
$49.95
Family Pack: $74.95 (Up to 5 computers in one household)
Upgrade from earlier versions of PDFpen: $25
(Free upgrade for purchases made after June 1, 2008)

PDFpenPro Pricing:
$99.95
Family Pack: $129.95 (Up to 5 computers in one household)
Upgrade from earlier versions of PDFpenPro: $25
(Free upgrade for purchases made after June 1, 2008)

Upgrade from PDFpen to PDFpenPro 4.X: $50

Site licenses: PDFpen $999, PDFpenPro $1299
Site license terms: Single contact for support; single physical address or company with fewer than 1,000 employees. Contact support@pdfpen.com for more information.

For more information about PDFpen, please visit:
http://www.smileonmymac.com/PDFpen/

Reviewer's Guide at:
http://www.smileonmymac.com/PDFpen/PDFpen4revguide.pdf

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ABOUT SMILEONMYMAC
SmileOnMyMac makes creative productivity software for Mac OS X, such as PDFpen, the PDF editing software that won an Editors' Choice Award from The Mac Observer; DiscLabel, the Macworld Eddy award-winning CD label design program; PageSender, feature-rich fax software that also received an Eddy; TextExpander, the typing shortcut tool, and BrowseBack, the visual web history tool that won Best of Show at Macworld 2006. All SmileOnMyMac products are available to download free at http://www.smileonmymac.com.

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Jean MacDonald (+1-503-226-6346. PT)
Marketing Director, SmileOnMyMac
Email: jean@smileonmymac.com

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Founder, SmileOnMyMac
E-mail: greg@smileonmymac.com

Philip Goward
Founder, SmileOnMyMac
E-mail: philip@smileonmymac.com

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