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Posted 03/18/2013 by Jean
We are very excited to release a major new version of our popular and award-winning PDFpen and PDFpenPro for Mac. Version 6 has lots of great new features and enhancements, including:
- Microsoft® Word export
- New editing bar and enhanced design for better ease-of-use
- Support for Auto Save and Versions
- Optimized for Retina displays
- Drag and drop to reorder Library items
It has always been our policy to offer current users an upgrade path when a new version is released. Because PDFpen is available in both the Smile Store and the Mac App Store, upgrades are more complicated.
There is no mechanism for offering upgrades in the Mac App Store. To accommodate customers who wish to purchase Mac App Store versions, special pricing will be offered for the first 48 hours. PDFpen will be $29.99 and PDFpenPro will be $39.99 for this very limited time. The special pricing expires on March 20 at midnight PDT.
To further complicate things, Apple restricts iCloud access to apps purchased on the Mac App Store. If you need iCloud support, you must purchase PDFpen 6 or PDFpenPro 6 from the Mac App Store. (Support for Dropbox cloud storage and syncing is available in both the Mac App Store version and the Smile Store version.)
So, here it is, in a nutshell:
Upgrade Pricing - Mac App Store (First 48 hours only)
PDFpen: $29.99
PDFpenPro: $39.99
Includes iCloud support
Upgrade Pricing - Smile direct purchase
PDFpen: $30
PDFpenPro: $30
PDFpen to PDFpenPro: $40
Does not include iCloud support
Customers who purchased on or after October 15, 2012 are entitled to free upgrades to the Smile Store version. We have no means to offer free upgrades in the Mac App Store.
After the 48 hour special is over, Smile's standard upgrade pricing will continue to be available directly.
We are really proud of the work we've done to make PDFpen 6.0 a worthy upgrade. Your feedback and suggestions help us make PDFpen the best PDF editing tool for Mac and iOS. If you have any questions, just email us at support@smilesoftware.com--we are ready to help!
Posted 01/30/2013 by Jean
It's Macworld Eve! Tomorrow, we'll be demoing great Smile apps at our 10th Macworld Expo.
Today's photos are from last year's show. 2012 was an exciting year for us. We launched PDFpen for iPad, which won Best of Show from Macworld, The Mac Observer, and Beatweek Magazine. We had a great team at the booth. Two new faces in this photo: Éric (far left) and Colin (far right), both super-talented developers who work with us to make PDFpen the very best!
Our 2012 team, left to right: Éric, Philip, Jean, Angel, Maia, Greg, Edward, Brian, Colin. Below, Greg, Philip and I finally get a moment together to smile ourselves at the end a crazy busy Macworld!
Please come see us this year, January 31 to February 2, in the Moscone West Expo Hall. We'll be on the far right side of the Appalooza section of the floor, showing off the new PDFpen for iPhone!
Today's the final day of our Countdown to Macworld celebration of Smile's 10th anniversary. As promised, today's winners (one on Twitter, one on Facebook) get a bundle with all the prizes we've given away over the last nine days:
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PDFpenPro
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PDFpen for iPad
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PDFpen for iPhone
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TextExpander for Mac
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TextExpander touch
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DiscLabel
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Smile mug
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TextExpander water bottle
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Smile special 10th anniversary screen cloth
Remember to tweet your birthday greetings (tagged #smile10) and/or share them via Facebook comments. We'll pick the winners randomly from the comments we receive!
Posted 01/29/2013 by Jean
Here we are in 2011. We switched back to a kiosk, because of the convenience. It takes a lot of work to put together a full booth! You might notice we look less tired this year.
In the photo: Brian, Edward, Jean, Jordan, Greg. Jordan Satok was one of our support geeks back then. He's deferred going to college to run his own company, App Hero, and raise venture funding. It was great having him at the booth that year.
Philip, Maia, and Angel were also working the booth in 2011, but somehow we missed getting them in a group photo...
Remember to tweet your birthday greetings (tagged #smile10) and/or share them via Facebook comments. Every day until the opening day of Macworld, we'll be giving out some prizes to random tweeters and commenters. Today's prize is winner's choice: you pick the app (or the swag) you'd like to have.
Posted 01/27/2013 by Jean
Smile has exhibited at Macworld Expo ten times! But on Day 8 of this countdown, we want to share a photo from another great event that we sponsor: the Mac Computer Expo in Petaluma. We've been at MCE eight times! When you add it up, that's a lot of demos and handshakes. (Yes, we always bring hand sanitizer to these events...)
Remember to tweet your birthday greetings (tagged #smile10) and/or share them via Facebook comments. Every day until the opening day of Macworld, we'll be giving out some prizes to random tweeters and commenters.
Posted 01/27/2013 by Jean
Macworld | iWorld is almost here! Did you get your free Expo Hall Pass? We still have a few left, but hurry--the link will expire soon!!
Today's photo comes from 2009. We decided to do the whole 20' x 10' booth on our own, so we needed some new help! Maia Olson and Angel Vu joined our booth team. They had so much fun that they agreed to continue to work with us in customer support. If you've had a support question, there's a good chance that Maia or Angel answered it!
Our good friend Lorene Romero, the organizer of Mac Computer Expo among other things, also lent us a hand.
(left to right: Brian, Maia, Philip, Lorene, Angel, Greg, Jean, Sean)
Remember to tweet your birthday greetings (tagged #smile10) and/or share them via Facebook comments. Every day until the opening day of Macworld, we'll be giving out some prizes to random tweeters and commenters.
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Posted 01/26/2013 by Jean
Today's photo is from Macworld 2008. For some reason, we took no group pictures of the team at the booth this year, but you can see us all in action, from left to right: Philip, Jean, Brian, Jane, Edward, and Greg. In 2007 and 2008, we shared our booth space with our friends from Ovolab.
Remember to tweet your birthday greetings (tagged #smile10) and/or share them via Facebook comments. Every day until the opening day of Macworld, we'll be giving out some prizes to random tweeters and commenters.
Posted 01/25/2013 by Jean
Meet the Authors! We are doing some thing new at the booth this year. Two of our favorite Take Control authors will be digitally signing your copies of their books--using PDFpen for iPad, of course!
Come meet Michael E. Cohen and Joe Kissell on Friday at 3 p.m. Michael is the author of Take Control of PDFpen and Take Control of TextExpander; Joe is the author of Take Control of Your Paperless Office, a subject near and dear to the hearts of many PDFpen users.
Smile is located in the Appalooza section of the Expo Hall.
Countdown: Day 5 Here's a photo of the team at Macworld 2007. Notice anything different? We decided to try having a full size booth this year. This is why 2007 is known in the Smile chronicles as The Year Of Going Crazy. Let's just say we learned a lot in prepping for this show about many things, including power tools.
A couple new faces at the booth: our good friends Steve Splonskowski (aka Splons) and Edward McNair, who gave us a hand covering the expanded work schedule for the expanded booth. Jane designed the booth graphics.
Posted 01/24/2013 by Jean
Meet The Podcasters! We are happy to announce that some of your favorite podcasters will once again be coming by the Smile booth to chat with listeners and answer questions.
Mac Geek Gab (Dave Hamilton & John F. Braun): Thursday, 3 p.m.
MacCast (Adam Christianson): Friday, 4 p.m.
Mac Power Users (Katie Floyd & David Sparks): Saturday, 3 p.m.
Countdown: Day 4 Today's stroll down Smile Memory Lane takes us to 2006. This was an exciting year for us: our new product BrowseBack won Best of Show! We were proud to announce that all our products were "Intel-Ready Already!". Our friend Jane Pellicciotto joined us on the booth staff. (Jane is the talented designer who is responsible for the current lineup of Smile product icons!)
Remember to tweet your birthday greetings (tagged #smile10) and/or share them via Facebook comments. Every day until the opening day of Macworld, we'll be giving out some prizes to random tweeters and commenters.
Posted 01/23/2013 by Jean
Seven more days to go. Remember to tweet your birthday greetings (tagged #smile10) and your Facebook comments. Every day until the opening day of Macworld, we'll be giving out some prizes to random tweeters and commenters. Today's prize is the coveted Smile coffee mug.
Another great photo from the archive below. In 2005, Brian Bucknam joined the regular Macworld booth team. Brian is an awesome developer who has worked with us for years. He's also great at the booth, with his combination of expertise and calm demeanor. In this photo, that's Brian on the right, along with Philip, Jean, Greg and Sean (right to left). In the background, you can see that Circus Ponies was our neighbor that year. They made quite an impression with their popcorn machine!
Posted 01/22/2013 by Jean
We are counting down the days to our 10th Macworld, where we'll be celebrating our 10th Anniversary.
Here's a photo from our second Macworld -- 2004 in San Francisco. That's when we released PDFpen 1.0. PDFpen has come a LONG way since then. In 2009, we won a Macworld Eddy Award for PDFpen and in 2012, PDFpen for iPad won Best of Show!
It was my first Macworld working with SmileOnMyMac (as we were known then). The community and excitement that I experienced those four days got me hooked. I said to my sister at the time, "I think it could be a lot of fun to work in the Mac business." I had no idea how much fun!
At the booth with Greg is Sean Newman, our good friend and regular Macworld booth staff through 2009.
Remember to tweet your birthday greetings (tagged #smile10) and your Facebook comments. Every day until the opening day of Macworld, we'll be giving out some prizes to random tweeters and commenters.
Trivia: This was the first and only appearance of the original SmileOnMyMac logo at Macworld.
