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Having seen a number of PDF products either released or upgraded recently and many of these costing between $10 & $100 triggered this review:

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I am happy investing in a good product that would provide me value long term and don't want to have to constantly switch, buy, and learn how to use new apps to have it accomplish what I need. Another alternative is to buy various apps piecemeal but the cost, time, and maintenance is even higher than just paying for PDFpenPro and upgrading every year. You want pretty or you want a workhorse? Frankly, I don't think a PDF editing program should be a subscription program unless it is web-based or there is some server or Cloud service involved where you are sharing data across a team of users and security is a concern. PDFelement seems to use other brands to marketing their own product and their quality is poor. PDFpen Expert as subscription without OCR, without form creation capabilities, without export features is a bit too high for a pretty UI. Adobe is too expensive and non-intuitive. The alternative is to lock yourself into yet another subscription.

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Smile's upgrade cost is pretty reasonable for their work. If you find the app useful, I think it is worthwhile to make sure you are running the latest version. I've seen great apps or apps with potential come and go because the developers can no longer support the app- very sad thing. It takes resources to create and develop software. Nothing of quality is free and needs maintenance. They also send you an email when they release a major version to let you know. For those who 'accidentally' upgrade, there is a notice informing users when it is a paid upgrade. You are not 'locked-in' to a subscription, and the app is yours forever. I am looking forward to additional developments of PDFpenPro that can bring the app even closer to the offerings of Acrobat, but better than Acrobat.Īs more and more developers are going subscription, I don't mind the optional $30 upgrade to the next major version. Bugs? All apps have bugs and PDFpenPro seems to have less of it over time since they've been around for awhile, but a responsive developer who really works to address it is much appreciated. I contact support regularly if I come across any issues and they are very responsive.

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For instance, with PDFpenPro, I can create interactive forms, apply digital signatures, batch OCR, and with the latest version, view the same document in two screens! Someone mentioned it is the swiss-army knife of PDF editors for Mac and I agree 100%. Other apps have better marketing, but PDFpenPro really gets the job done. I am a long-time user of PDFpenPro but have also used Adobe Acrobat and other competing apps. This is definitely the best alternative to Acrobat Pro.

Available in English, Japanese, German, French, Italian, and Spanish.

Automate PDF manipulations with AppleScript.

Sync Library items with PDFpen for iPad and iPhone via iCloud.

Password protect a document with up to 256-bit AES encryption.

Full screen mode, as well as zoom to document width and zoom to actual document size.

Print a list of all annotations along with the document.

Print notes and comments with or without the original text.

Apply business-related and sign here stamps via the Library.

Save frequently-used images, signatures, objects and text in the Library.

Mark up documents with highlighting, underscoring and strikethrough.

Context-sensitive popup-menus enable quick edits.

Copy and paste rich text retain fonts and formatting when copying from PDFs, including columns.

Move, resize, copy and delete images in original PDF.

Insert and remove pages re-order pages in a PDF by drag-and-drop combine PDFs.

Sign PDF forms via interactive signature fields (not digital signatures).

Adjust resolution, color depth and contrast, skew, and size of an image or scanned document.

Viewable OCR layer for proofing OCR text from scanned pages.

Perform OCR (Optical Character Recognition) on scanned documents.

Scan directly from Image Capture or TWAIN scanners.

Search and redact text search and replace text.

Redact or erase text, including OCR text.

Fill out interactive PDF forms and sign them.

Correct text in original PDF with editable text blocks.

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ppt), and PDF Archive (PDF/A) formats (requires Internet connection)

Gather submitted form data via backend integration.

Create submit buttons to submit form data via web or email.

Automatic form creation - detects text fields and check boxes in existing PDF and makes them fillable.

Add interactive signature fields to forms.

Create cross-platform fillable PDF forms.

The Pro version adds these additional features that the regular version does not: Create fillable forms and tables of content with PDFpenPro! Even correct text and edit graphics! PDFpenPro allows users to edit PDF's easily.