Everything PDFpen can do and more!
"Its abilities compare well with Acrobat Pro, and yet PDFpen comes in at roughly a tenth of the cost."
- Macworld, 4 mice
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PDFpen 6 |
PDFpenPro 6 |
Acrobat Pro 11 |
Preview 6 |
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| Price | $59.95 | $99.95 | $449 |
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| System requirements | 10.7 | 10.7 | 10.6.8 | |
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| Add text |
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| Correct text in original PDF with editable text blocks |
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| Optical character recognition (OCR) |
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| Add images, including scanned signatures |
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| Redact, erase and replace text |
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| Move, resize, copy, and delete images in original PDF |
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| Make image background transparent |
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| Deskew pages and images |
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| Selectively resample images to reduce file size |
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| Draw ellipses and rectangles |
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| Draw freeform scribbles, polygons, and rounded rectangles |
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| Create & edit dashed borders, lines, and arrowheads |
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| Library to store frequently-used text, images, scribbles, and signatures |
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| Create cross-platform PDF forms | - |
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| Insert advanced form features: pop-up menus, buttons | - |
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| Submit form data |
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| Create active form fields in a non-interactive form | - |
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| Add notes, comments, and highlighting |
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| Add underscore and strikethrough |
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| Add and edit hyperlinks |
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| Built-in proofreading marks library |
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Document Editing, Printing, Security |
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| Insert, remove, and reorder pages |
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| Save PDFs directly to Evernote |
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| Table of contents creation | - |
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| Selective printing of comments |
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| Print form fields only for printing on preprinted forms |
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| Comment modification history | - | - |
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| Document identity services | - | - |
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| Edit document permissions | - |
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| Import Microsoft Word documents |
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| Export a PDF to Microsoft Word format |
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| Import HTML website | - |
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| PDF document compression | - | - |
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| Save with 256-bit AES encryption |
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| Multimedia preview: video, audio, 3D | - | - |
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| Scripting live calculation, document actions | - | - |
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| AppleScriptable |
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| iCloud support |
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* Preview can create notes, but not comments. ** Apple restricts iCloud access to applications purchased through the Mac App Store |
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Get the power of PDFpen on the road! With iCloud and full-featured PDF editing power, it's a mobile app that doesn't feel like you left some important features back at the office.
"PDFpenPro is the crème de la crème of PDF editing and annotating applications."
- Jeffery Battersby, Macworld
System Requirements:
PDFpen 6.x and PDFpenPro 6.x are compatible with OS X 10.7 and 10.8. For 10.6 please download PDFpen 5.9.5 or PDFpenPro 5.9.5.