PDFpen 5.9 Significantly Improves Performance for Large Documents

FOR RELEASE OCTOBER 31, 2012 (ANY TIME)


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PDFpen 5.9 Significantly Improves Performance for Large Documents

San Francisco, CA – October 31, 2012 – Smile has released PDFpen 5.9, an update to its popular and affordable PDF editor for Mac OS X. The update significantly improves performance by reducing memory usage, in addition to other improvements and fixes.

PDFpen 5.9 adopts Apple’s sandboxing for improved security and compatibility with the Mac App Store. The update adds OAuth secure authorization for Evernote users who take advantage of PDFpen’s Save to Evernote capability.

The changes in PDFpen 5.9 have also been made in PDFpenPro 5.9, the Pro version that can also convert websites into PDFs, create fillable PDF forms, and construct document table of contents.

PDFpen retails for $59.95, PDFpenPro for $99.95. The Family Pack, for home use, is $74.95 for PDFpen and $119.95 for PDFpenPro. Office Pack licenses, which cover 5 users in an office, are $179.95 for PDFpen and $279.95 for PDFpenPro.

Upgrades from earlier versions of either application are $25.00, and free to users who purchased on or after February 14, 2010. Upgrades from any version of PDFpen to PDFpenPro 5.9 are $40.

PDFpen 5.9 and PDFpenPro 5.9 require OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) or later and 64-bit Intel Core 2 Duo processor. iCloud storage requires OS X 10.7.2 or later. Fully-functional demo versions are available at https://smilesoftware.com/PDFpen/download.html. Full versions of PDFpen and PDFpenPro are also available to purchase on Apple’s Mac App Store.

What’s New in PDFpen 5.9:
– Improves performance by significantly reducing memory usage
– Adopts OAuth secure authorization method to log in to Evernote
– Adopts Apple’s sandboxing for improved security
– Other minor fixes

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
– Redact or erase text, including OCR text; use search-and-redact or search-and-replace
– iCloud storage for seamless editing on Mac and iOS with PDFpen for iPad and PDFpen for iPhone
– Adjust resolution, color depth and contrast in an image or scanned document
– Scan directly from Image Capture or TWAIN scanners
– Perform Optical Character Recognition (OCR) on scanned documents
– Deskew scanned document pages for improved OCR
– Insert and remove pages; drag and drop to re-order pages in a PDF; combine PDFs
– Insert page numbers and specify positioning and format, including Roman numerals and Bates Numbering
– Fill out interactive 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
– Mark up documents with highlighting, underscoring and strikethrough
– Save frequently-used images, signatures, objects and text in the Library
– Save PDFs directly to Evernote
– Convert a website into a multi-page PDF document (requires PDFpenPro)
– Create cross-platform fillable PDF forms (requires PDFpenPro)
– Create and edit Table of Contents (requires PDFpenPro)
– Automate PDF manipulations with AppleScript
– Available in English, Japanese, German, Italian, and French

Requirements:
– Mac OS X 10.6 and later and a 64-bit Intel Core 2 Duo processor is required for PDFpen 5.9 and PDFpenPro 5.9. iCloud storage requires OS X 10.7.2. or later.

PDFpen Pricing:
$59.95
Family Pack: $74.95 (home use; up to 5 computers in one household)
Office Pack: $179.95 (office use; up to 5 users in one office)
Upgrade from earlier versions of PDFpen: $25
(Free upgrade for purchases made on or after February 14, 2010)

PDFpenPro Pricing:
$99.95
Family Pack: $119.95 (home use; up to 5 computers in one household)
Office Pack: $279.95 (office use; up to 5 users in one office)
Upgrade from earlier versions of PDFpenPro: $25
(Free upgrade for purchases made on or after February 14, 2010)

Upgrade from PDFpen to PDFpenPro 5.X: $40

Site licenses: PDFpen $999, PDFpenPro $1299
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Reviewer’s Guide at:
https://smilesoftware.com/PDFpen/PDFpen5revguide.pdf

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