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. There are three categories …

Be A PDFpen Hotkey Master

Philip Blog, PDFpen, PDFpen Tips

Hotkeys, or keyboard shortcuts, whichever you call them, are not just for power users and anti-mouse proponents. If you've spent hours in an app doing the same thing again and again, it may be time to move beyond ⌘C and ⌘V. In PDFpen, and PDFpenPro, the main tools in the editing bar are all assigned hotkeys. This means it's easy to do something basic such as switch between …

Sync PDF Documents with PDFpen 7 and iCloud Drive

Philip Blog, PDFpen, PDFpen Tips

Thanks to iCloud Drive, one of the few differences between PDFpen from the Mac App Store v.s. direct from the Smile store has been removed, that of document sync. Specifically, version 7 of PDFpen and PDFpenPro, purchased directly from Smile, can sync documents with PDFpen for iPad & iPhone version 2 and with PDFpen Scan+ via iCloud Drive. Here's how. Requirements: You must …

Number Pages using PDFpen 2 on iPad & iPhone

Philip Blog, PDFpen, PDFpen Tips

One great new feature in PDFpen 2 is the ability to number pages in a PDF document. PDFpen 2 brings complete, desktop-class PDF page numbering to your iPad and iPhone and includes all of the options from PDFpen for OS X: Vertical Position: top or bottom of the page Alignment: left, center, right, or inner / outer corners book style …

How PDFpen Scan+ Let Me Copy the Uncopiable

Philip Blog, Case Studies, PDFpen Tips

One of the exciting things about app development is seeing the unintended uses of the app after it is alive in the world.  This is an example of how one of those side effects worked for me. The Goal Copy text from a webpage with unselectable text and paste it into an email.  The Challenge The webpage in question is …