PDFpen 7.2 Adds Cloud Tool, Advanced Search Options and More

Philip Press

FOR RELEASE JULY 7, 2015 (ANY TIME)

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Reviewer’s Guide, icons, screenshots for PDFpen and PDFpenPro 7:

http://smilesoftware.com/static/pr/PDFpen7_PressKit.zip (5.7 MB)

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PDFpen 7.2 Adds Cloud Tool, Advanced Search Options and More

San Francisco, CA – JULY 7, 2015 – Smile has released PDFpen 7.2, an update to its all-purpose PDF editing tool for OS X. This update includes a new Cloud annotation tool as well as an option for case-sensitive searches.

There is a new Editing preference which allows for optional automatic switching between the Edit and Select Text tools.

The popup notes on highlights and stamps now offer a Delete note button and the context menu offers Edit and Delete note options. The sidebar’s annotation list offers icons for easy identification of annotation type, wrapped text for improved readability, and date, author, and location when available.

PDFpen users will notice a new Inspector tab for viewing document permissions. Editing document permissions is still PDFpenPro only.

“The new cloud annotation tool and enhanced search options make PDFpen an even more flexible and powerful tool,” said Philip Goward, Smile founder.

PDFpenPro and PDFpen 7 work with PDFpen for iPad & iPhone v.2, allowing seamless editing across devices when used with Dropbox storage or iCloud Drive.

PDFpen retails for US $74.95, PDFpenPro for $124.95. Family Pack licenses, which cover up to five computers in one household, are $94.95 for PDFpen and $149.95 for PDFpenPro. Office Pack licenses start at $224.95 for PDFpen (5 users) and $349.95 for PDFpenPro (5 users).

Upgrades from earlier single user versions of either application are US $30.00, and free to users who purchased on or after August 1, 2014. Upgrades to PDFpenPro 7 from previous versions of PDFpen are $50. Upgrade pricing for Family Packs and Office Packs is found on our web store: http://smle.us/store

PDFpen 7 and PDFpenPro 7 require OS X 10.10 (Yosemite) or later. For OS X 10.9 (Mavericks), see our website for compatible previous PDFpen versions. Demo versions are available at http://www.smilesoftware.com/PDFpen/download.html. Full versions of PDFpen and PDFpenPro are also available for purchase on Apple’s Mac App Store.

What’s New in PDFpen 7.2:

– Adds new Cloud annotation tool
– Adds case-sensitive search option
– Adds Editing preference for automatic selection tool switching
– Improves popup notes for highlights and stamps:
— Adds Edit Note and Delete Note menu commands
— Adds Delete Note button
– Enhances annotation list:
— Shows annotation icons
— Wraps text for improved readability
— Shows date, author, and location when available
– Adds read-only Document Permissions window to PDFpen
– Exports new unsaved documents
– Other fixes and improvements

PDFpen features:
– Add text, images and signatures to PDF
– Correct text in original PDF with editable text blocks
– Fill out interactive PDF forms and sign them
– Redact or erase text, including OCR text
– Search and redact text; search and replace text
– Export in Microsoft® Word format (requires Internet connection)
– Scan directly from Image Capture or TWAIN scanners
– Perform OCR (Optical Character Recognition) on scanned documents
– Viewable OCR text layer for proofing OCR text from scanned pages
– Adjust resolution, color depth and contrast, skew, and size of an image or scanned document
– Sign PDF forms via interactive signature fields (not digital signatures)
– Insert and remove pages; re-order pages in a PDF by drag & drop; combine PDFs
– Move, resize, copy and delete images in original PDF
– Save PDFs directly to Evernote
– Insert page numbers and specify positioning and format, including Roman numerals and Bates Numbering
– Copy and paste rich text; retain fonts and formatting when copying from PDFs, including columns
– Context-sensitive popup-menus enable quick edits
– 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
– Apply business-related and sign here stamps via the Library
– Print notes and comments with or without the original text
– Print a list of all annotations along with the document
– Full screen mode, as well as zoom to document width and zoom to actual document size
– Password protect a document with up to 256-bit AES encryption
– Compatible with iCloud Drive
– Sync Library items with PDFpen for iPad & iPhone via iCloud (Mac App Store version only)
– Create cross-platform fillable PDF forms (PDFpenPro only)
– Add interactive signature fields to forms (PDFpenPro only)
– Create and edit Table of Contents (PDFpenPro only)
– Convert websites into PDFs (PDFpenPro only)
– Correct typos in OCR text layer (PDFpenPro only)
– Add and edit document permissions (PDFpenPro only)
– Automatic form creation – detects text fields and check boxes in existing PDF and makes them fillable (PDFpenPro only)
– Create submit buttons to submit form data via web or email (PDFpenPro only)
– Gather submitted form data via backend integration (PDFpenPro only)
– Export in Microsoft® Excel (.xlsx, .xls), Microsoft® PowerPoint (.pptx), and PDF Archive (PDF/A) formats (requires Internet connection, PDFpenPro only)
– Automate PDF manipulations with AppleScript and JavaScript Automation
– Available in English, Japanese, German, French, Italian, and Spanish

Requirements:

OS X 10.10 (Yosemite) and later. iCloud storage and sync requires the Mac App Store version, use of iCloud Drive does not.

PDFpen Pricing:

US $74.95

Family Pack: $94.95 (home use; up to 5 computers in one household)

Office Pack: starts at $224.95 for 5 users

Single user upgrade from earlier versions of PDFpen: $30

Upgrade pricing for Family Packs and Office Packs: http://smle.us/pdfpenup

(Free upgrade to the Smile Store version for purchases made on or after August 1, 2014; no free upgrades available in the Mac App Store)

PDFpenPro Pricing:

US $124.95

Family Pack: $149.95 (home use; up to 5 computers in one household)

Office Pack: starts at $349.95 for 5 users

Single user upgrade from earlier versions of PDFpenPro: $30

Upgrade pricing for Family Packs and Office Packs: http://smle.us/pdfpenproup

(Free upgrade to the Smile Store version for purchases made on or after August 1, 2014; no free upgrades available in the Mac App Store)

Single user upgrade from previous version of PDFpen to PDFpenPro 7.X: $50

Site licenses: PDFpen $1249.95, PDFpenPro $1624.95

Site license terms: Single contact for support; single physical address or company with fewer than 1,000 employees. Visit our site license store:

http://smilesoftware.com/sitelicense

For more information about PDFpen, please visit:

http://www.smilesoftware.com/PDFpen/

Reviewer’s Guide, icons, screenshots for PDFpen and PDFpenPro 7:

http://smilesoftware.com/static/pr/PDFpen7_PressKit.zip (5.7 MB)

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ABOUT SMILE

Smile makes productivity software for Mac, iPad, iPhone and iPod touch, including PDFpen, the all-purpose Mac PDF editor; PDFpen for iPad & iPhone, the mobile PDF editor; PDFpen Scan+, which brings the power of OCR to your iPad and iPhone; TextExpander, the Mac typing shortcut tool; TextExpander touch + custom keyboard for the iPhone and iPad; and DiscLabel, the CD label design program.

Demos of all Smile products for Mac OS X are available for free download at http://www.smilesoftware.com.

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PDFpen Tip for the Day: Stamps

Philip Blog, iPhone, PDFpen, PDFpen Tips, Photos

Need to put a big red Draft stamp on a PDF, or a Sign Here arrow? PDFpen comes with stamps for just that purpose. The stamps are a type of imprint you can place on your document that is new to version 7 of PDFpen and PDFpenPro and version 2 of PDFpen for iPad & iPhone.

Stamps tab

There are three categories of stamps to choose from, which you will notice when you open the Library window (⌘Y) to the stamps tab. You won't see these separate categories in PDFpen for iPad & iPhone.

  • Sign here style arrowed stamps
  • Business stamps for things like Paid, Copied, Approved
  • Dynamic stamps for when you need the current date and time in the stamp

There is a fourth category, and that is User Defined. This is where you can make your own custom stamps. (Making stamps is Mac-version only).

Make a Stamp

  1. Click on the + at the lower left corner of the Library window and choose “Add Custom Stamp.”
  2. In the Add Custom Stamp Window, you have a few customizations to make :
    • label, or, what the stamp will say
    • type (Dynamic, Sign Here or Standard Business)
    • color scheme
  3. Click OK to finish and this stamp will be listed in User Defined.

Here are a few sample pictures of what different stamp options look like:

samples of stamps

If you want something more customized than that, you could create something in your graphics app of choice and then import it into the Library by clicking the + in the lower left of the window and choosing Add File. It would be a static image, so no current date and time, and it would be listed in the Custom tab. You might want something like this for your company logo, for example.

If you purchased PDFpen from the Mac App Store then you can use iCloud to sync these stamps over to PDFpen for iPad & iPhone.

As always, if you have any tips or tricks of your own, let us know and we'll share it.

PDFpen 7.2 Adds Cloud Tool, Advanced Search Options and More

Philip Blog, PDFpen, Software Releases

PDFpen iconPDFpen and PDFpenPro 7.2 are now available with several handy improvements. 

This update adds a new Cloud annotation tool, a case-sensitive search option and a new Editing preference to control automatic switching between the Edit and Select Text tools.

You'll find popup notes for highlights and stamps now offer a Delete note button and the context menu offers Edit and Delete note options. The sidebar's annotation list offers icons for easy identification, wrapped text for improved readability, and date, author, and location when available.

PDFpen users will notice a new Inspector tab for viewing document permissions. Editing document permissions is still PDFpenPro only. 

What's New:

  • Adds new Cloud annotation tool
  • Adds case-sensitive search option
  • Adds Editing preference for automatic selection tool switching
  • Improves popup notes for highlights and stamps:
    • Adds Edit Note and Delete Note menu commands
    • Adds Delete Note button
  • Enhances annotation list:
    • Shows annotation icons
    • Wraps text for improved readability
    • Shows date, author, and location when available
  • Adds read-only Document Permissions window to PDFpen
  • Exports new unsaved documents
  • Other fixes and improvements

WWDC 2015 Happy Hour Round Up

Philip Blog, Public Appearances

The Smile Team made it to WWDC this year, and to the other two conferences in SF the same week. We’re looking forward to what iOS 9 and El Capitan will bring later this year, as are you.

Here’s what our developer on the ground, Éric, noticed from within the walls of WWDC:

There was a palpable sense of relief when talking to most of the developers at the conference after they took stock of the keynote announcements. Indeed, it seems that this year’s OS releases are a bit less about broad and sweeping changes such as iOS 7’s UI redesign or last year’s addition of a multitude of OS extension mechanisms and more about incremental refinements of the platforms. While there were still plenty of exciting new features and announcements to be found (split-screen multitasking support for the iPad, system-wide Search API on iOS, a revamped and much-improved Notes application, Swift 2 going open source), it seemed that there’s going to be a little more breathing room for developers to keep pace with Apple’s platform advancements this year.

Dub-Dub was not the only game in town. We helped sponsor the free alternative conference altConf for another year. It was bigger and better than ever, with two speaker tracks and room for 1000 people. As the wrap session said, this conference isn’t just to make better devs, it’s to make better people. There are conferences to make you better at CoreData and Swift and Playgrounds, and then there are conferences that remind you why you do what you do and to stoke that passion for another year. We, and others who support AltConf, believe you need both. Yet another conference joined Dub-Dub week, Layers the design conference. As MC and conference co-founder Jessie Char said, this conference was all about hearing from her favorite designers while eating all her favorite foods. Plus new-version Photoshop sneak peaks. To misquote her further, who doesn’t love that?

(PS, did you know that 3-D printed designer glasses while you wait is a thing? The future is now.)

WWDC is not just a time to watch sessions and learn the new stuff as quickly as possible, but to meet new friends and catch up with old ones.

Peter Cohen (iMore) and Kelly Guimont (Smile).

Greg Scown (Smile) and Bob Cantoni (Nice Mohawk) former Smile-er.

Florian Albrecht (Elgato) and Maia Olson (Smile).

App Camp 4 Girls had a successful party to start off Camp 3.0 Indiegogo campaign. Take a page from the App Camp play book if you want to keep your crowd engaged. Play Social Bingo so that everyone asks around to see who plays guitar and who flew in from Canada.

To finish off the week, on Conference Day 5, we had a Smile Team wrap party. This is one of the few times a year a large group of get together.

(Éric, Angel, Yunor, Kelly, Maia, Nat, Philip)

Hope you enjoyed happy hour. We had pizza and caipiranas. Now, we’re off to make PDFpen and TextExpander ready for the fall OSs.

All About Suggested Snippets

Philip Blog, TextExpander, TextExpander Tips

suggestions windowOur favorite new feature of TextExpander 5 is suggested snippets.

What:

As you type, TextExpander will let you know what you type the most, and suggest you make it into a snippet.

You may have noticed these suggestions appearing in the corner of your screen through Notification Center.

Where:

To locate these suggested snippets open the TextExpander window to the “Suggested Snippets” group.

How:

Keep, drop, or delete the suggestions:

  • Keeping a suggestion means adding an abbreviation to it to complete the snippet. You can then move it into another group for better organization. Click the “Keep” button to keep it.
  • Dropping a suggestion means that TextExpander will never, ever, suggest it again. This is not the same as deleting a suggestion. Click the “Drop” button to drop it.
  • Deleting a suggestion means you remove that suggestion. TextExpander may suggest that same snippet again. Select the suggestion then press the Delete key to delete it.

Notifications:

To receive these notifications, open TextExpander’s Preferences > Suggestions and check the suggest snippets option.

If you want to keep the suggests coming, but have fewer of them, drop the ones you know you don’t want, they’ll never come back. Don’t delete suggestions you really don’t want, they could come back as new suggested snippets.

If you don’t want to receive these notifications at all, uncheck the option. However, in version 5.0, you will still receive some notifications on your pending suggested snippets. We do plan to address this in the next update.

The future:

Now that this feature is out in the wild we’re getting great feedback. With some time to reflect, we’ll work on fine tuning the suggestions.

A few ideas we’re tossing around for future settings would allow users to set the minimum length of a suggestion, limit suggestions to phrases only, or to avoid suggestions that are dictionary words.

Wrap-up

Keep your suggestions to us coming! Your feedback is invaluable in shaping TextExpander.