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We've been hard at work since PDFpen 1.0 listening to your feedback and continually making PDFpen a better product. We hope you enjoy the results!

PDFpen / PDFpenPro 4.7 2010-07-06

PDFpen / PDFpenPro 4.6.2 2010-04-28

  • Fixed occasional problem where Correct Text blanks more than it should
  • Switched to FastSpring for in-product purchases
  • Other minor improvements and fixes

PDFpen / PDFpenPro 4.6.1 2010-03-31

  • Improved position accuracy for OCR'd text selection and highlight
  • Fixed occasional problem with sheet-fed scanners repeatedly returning first page
  • Fixed occasional failure to draw text annotations
  • Fixed failure to select text when font has zero ascent and descent
  • Other minor improvements and fixes

PDFpen / PDFpenPro 4.6 2010-02-23

  • European language OCR; in addition to English, PDFpen supports:
    • German
    • French
    • Spanish
    • Italian
    • Dutch
    • Norwegian
    • Swedish
    • Finnish
    • Danish
    • Portuguese
    • Catalan
  • Miscellaneous improvements and bug fixes

PDFpen / PDFpenPro 4.5.3 2009-12-16

  • Includes table content in OCR
  • "Merge Every Other" script
  • Various drawing fixes

PDFpen / PDFpenPro 4.5.2 2009-11-11

  • Reduces memory requirements for OCR
  • Improved loading of newer encrypted PDFs
  • CMYK images and images in cropped PDF scans no longer hide when saved
  • Make Transparent Image no longer adds unwanted borders
  • Locked drawing tools no longer display selection when in use
  • Miscellaneous improvements and bug fixes

PDFpen / PDFpenPro 4.5.1 2009-10-14

  • Miscellaneous improvements and bug fixes

PDFpen / PDFpenPro 4.5 2009-09-29

  • New OCR engine with improved accuracy
  • New highlight text tool -- select and highlight text in a single action
  • Scan directly into PDFpen from Image Capture or TWAIN scanners (Snow Leopard only)
  • Numerous improvements and bug fixes

PDFpen / PDFpenPro 4.2.1 2009-09-11

  • Fixed problems with opening some PDF documents on Snow Leopard
  • Fixed Quartz filters on Snow Leopard
  • Improved click selection behavior on Snow Leopard
  • Fixed problems with filling some IRS forms
  • Combine PDFs and Split PDF scripts no longer require Rosetta
  • Other fixes and improvements

PDFpen / PDFpenPro 4.2 2009-08-12

  • Added support for documents encrypted with 128-bit AES encryption
  • Added support for the enhanced print event in AppleScript
  • Other fixes and improvements

PDFpen / PDFpenPro 4.1.5 2009-07-07

  • Fixes some geometry problems (primarily with rotation)
  • Fixes potential crashing bug inadvertently introduced in 4.1.4

PDFpen / PDFpenPro 4.1.4 2009-07-01

  • Improved display performance for large documents
  • Added AppleScript document property: “performing OCR”
  • Other minor fixes and improvements

PDFpen / PDFpenPro 4.1.3 2009-05-12

  • Fixes problem with highlight being offset on certain documents
  • Fixes problem where page disappears when using Correct Text
  • Selecting entries in the annotations list no longer triggers crop
  • Other minor fixes and improvements

PDFpen / PDFpenPro 4.1.2 2009-04-07

  • Mail Document menu item (in the File menu)
  • Performance improvements
  • Bug fixes

PDFpen / PDFpenPro 4.1.1 2009-03-18

  • Sparkle support for in-application updating
  • Fixes to polygon and round-edged rectangle creation
  • Fixes for grid snap with continuous view

PDFpen / PDFpenPro 4.1 2009-03-03

  • Continuous scrolling in both single and facing page views
  • Edit in facing page view
  • Edit while continuous scrolling
  • AppleScript support for OCR
  • View form field tab order in PDFpenPro
  • Miscellaneous improvements and bug fixes

PDFpen / PDFpenPro 4.0.4 2009-01-02

  • Improvements for Axiotron Modbook pen input
  • Minor fixes and updates

PDFpen / PDFpenPro 4.0.3 2008-12-18

  • Bug fixes and stability improvement

PDFpen / PDFpenPro 4.0.2 2008-11-12

  • Command-option to force OCR of whole document
  • Added Bates numbering to script menu
  • Changed object transparency to work with Preview
  • Restored French and Italian localizations
  • Fixed page size interpretation for high density images
  • Other minor fixes and improvements

PDFpen / PDFpenPro 4.0.1 2008-10-01

  • Added preferences for OCR prompting
  • Fixed accuracy of search selection in columnar documents
  • Fixed highlight over-drawing problem
  • Fixed underline positioning
  • Fixed table of contents editing on Mac OS X 10.4
  • Other minor fixes and improvements

PDFpen / PDFpenPro 4.0 2008-09-17

  • Optical Character Recognition (OCR) recognizes text in many scanned documents, allowing scanned text to be selected, copied, and modified.
  • Improved User Interface; including a document sidebar with thumbnails, and table of contents; streamlined properties window; clearer toolbar controls.
  • Significant file compatibility upgrades.
  • Import Microsoft Word documents.
  • Print notes and comments.
  • Additional mark-up capabilities including underline, strikethrough, and custom highlight color.
  • Text imprints can be saved in the Library for reuse.
  • Create and edit document Table of Contents (PDFpenPro only).
  • Save as TIFF.
  • Re-written and improved online help.
  • Image compression in saved files via ColorSync.
  • Multiple column text selection significantly improved.
  • Text color choices separated from graphics.
  • Custom highlight color Preference.
  • Scribble tool recognizes and assembles multiple stroke tablet input.
  • Arrow choices for line endings.
  • Pattern selection for outlines.
  • Multiple file selection in import dialog.
  • New application icon.

PDFpen / PDFpenPro 3.5.2  2008-08-27

  • Various fixes and improvements

PDFpen / PDFpenPro 3.5.1  2008-08-19

  • Various fixes and improvements

PDFpen / PDFpenPro 3.5  2008-07-22

  • Improved ability to open PDFs following newer specifications
  • Improved ability to open non-standard PDF documents
  • Resolved several cases of disappearing text when using Correct Text
  • Resolved several cases of garbled text when using Correct Text
  • Numerous stability improvements and minor bug fixes

PDFpen / PDFpenPro 3.4.2  2008-06-25

  • Improved handling of font widths for fonts used frequently for OCR
  • Fixed occasional crashing bug affecting some bank statements
  • Other minor fixes and improvements

PDFpen / PDFpenPro 3.4.1  2008-03-20

  • Minor improvements and fixes

PDFpen / PDFpenPro 3.4  2008-03-18

  • Fixed problem where fonts or spacing could appear jumbled
  • Fixed setting font, alignment and color for form fields in PDFpenPro
  • Improved performance when adding imprints to large documents
  • Various stability improvements
  • Improved performance opening documents on 10.4.11 and 10.5.x

PDFpen / PDFpenPro 3.3.2  2008-01-09

  • Improved support for protected documents
  • Minor improvements and fixes

PDFpen / PDFpenPro 3.3.1  2007-11-06

  • Fixed “Combine PDF” script under Leopard
  • Fixed “Open with PDFpen” workflow item under Leopard
  • Fixed positioning of markup when page is cropped
  • Fixed positioning of comments when page is rotated
  • Improved compatibility with off-spec documents

PDFpen / PDFpenPro 3.3  2007-08-14

  • Display of highlight, strikethrough, underline, and squiggly text annotations
  • Display of line, square, circle, ink, and stamp annotations
  • Preference to lock large images automatically
  • Printed pages are centered
  • Various other fixes

PDFpen / PDFpenPro 3.2  2007-06-05

  • Library of English Proofreading Marks for PDF mark-up
  • Improved handling of scanned PDF documents
  • Several other improvements and fixes

PDFpen / PDFpenPro 3.1.1  2007-04-03

  • Remembers zoom level and page position of previously-opened documents
  • Respects default font size preference when creating form fields
  • Minor bug fixes and improvements

PDFpen / PDFpenPro 3.1  2006-11-28

  • Add, edit, and remove URL and page links in PDFpen
  • Access text formatting attributes via AppleScript
  • Fixed "Merge Imprints into Page" function
  • Fixed redraw performance problem introduced in 3.0.2
  • Other minor fixes and improvements

PDFpen / PDFpenPro 3.0.2  2006-10-24

  • Facing pages view displays properly
  • Links now support Border attributes (editable in PDFpenPro)
  • Correct Text works in encrypted documents which permit editing
  • Open and Save AppleScript commands accept an optional password
  • Various minor bug fixes

PDFpen / PDFpenPro 3.0.1

PDFpen / PDFpenPro 3.0.1 was not released for download.

PDFpen / PDFpenPro 3.0  2006-10-10

  • Edit images - move / resize / copy / delete existing images in PDFs
  • Correct / modify text - replace text in PDFs with editable text blocks
  • View table of contents
  • Select text in multiple columns
  • Copy rich text - retain fonts and formatting when copying from PDFs
  • User interface enhancements

PDFpen / PDFpenPro 2.4.2  2006-08-29

  • Improved selection behavior for PDF images
  • Improved text location and selection
  • Fixed problem interpreting Unicode character maps
  • Single disk image for all languages

PDFpen / PDFpenPro 2.4.1  2006-08-01

  • Improved UNICODE support
  • Goto links on PDFpenPro are now followed
  • Various reliability enhancements

PDFpen / PDFpenPro 2.4  2006-06-28

  • Support for PDF comments
  • Display and navigate from a list of comments, notes and imprints
  • Various other fixes and improvements

PDFpen / PDFpenPro 2.3.4  2006-04-11

  • Enhanced document compatibility
  • Updates for password-protected documents on Intel Universal binary

PDFpen / PDFpenPro 2.3.3  2006-03-21

  • Updates essential for Intel Universal binary
  • Additional keyboard shortcuts for highlighting, inserting a blank page, and go to page
  • Various improvements and performance enhancements

PDFpen / PDFpenPro 2.3.2  2006-01-31

  • Universal Binary (runs native on Intel and PowerPC)

PDFpen / PDFpenPro 2.3.1  2005-10-04

  • Improves quality of printed imprints

PDFpen / PDFpenPro 2.3  2005-09-20

  • Improved performance for handling complex forms
  • Improved interactivity for document display
  • Improved display performance
  • Fixes problem with disappearing imprints in affected documents
  • Various other fixes and improvements

PDFpen / PDFpenPro 2.2.2  2005-07-06

  • Fixes problem writing annotations to secure PDFs

PDFpen / PDFpenPro 2.2.1  2005-06-28

  • Open with PDFpen directly from the Print dialog
  • Improved compatibility with off-spec PDF files
  • Minor bug fixes

PDFpen / PDFpenPro 2.2  2005-05-31

  • Open secure and password-protected PDF documents *
  • Save documents with password security
  • Create multi-stroke freehand imprints
  • Create multi-line polygon imprints
  • Add links to URLs and pages in document (requires PDFpenPro)
  • Follow remote file links
  • Optimized drawing performance
  • Improved memory management
  • Better handling of off-spec PDFs
  • Minor bug fixes and improvements
  • PDFpen respects PDF document security permissions

PDFpen / PDFpenPro 2.1.1  2005-04-25

  • Tiger (Mac OS X 10.4) compatible
  • PDFpenPro now creates Preview-fillable text fields (re-save existing PDFpenPro forms to enable)
  • Resolved Tiger-specific crash when adding imprints
  • Resolved hang with Combine PDF / Split PDF scripts when called from script menu

PDFpen / PDFpenPro 2.1  2005-03-30

  • View, add, and edit PDF notes
  • Crop pages
  • Select and copy rectangular areas
  • Compress uncompressed images when saving (requires PDFpenPro)
  • Imprinted images retain compression settings when saved
  • Further non-spec PDF issues resolved
  • Performance and stability enhancements

PDFpen / PDFpenPro 2.0.1  2005-02-15

  • Multi-line text in forms is displayed properly
  • Size to fit improved for small point sizes
  • Precisely horizontal and vertical lines display properly
  • Old-style link annotations function properly
  • Performance improvements
  • Stability improvements

PDFpen / PDFpenPro 2.0  2005-01-04

  • Fill out and save filled-out PDF forms
  • Create cross-platform fillable PDF forms (requires PDFpenPro)
  • Search, select, and copy full text of PDF documents
  • View and follow links in PDF documents
  • Add highlighting markup to document text
  • Align objects
  • Show and snap to grid
  • Set default font and size for text imprints
  • Check for updates via Internet
  • Numerous improvements and fixes

PDFpen 1.2.1  2004-06-08

  • Enhanced speed and responsiveness of text operations
  • Improved precision and responsiveness of freehand drawing tool
  • Prints at 100% scale unless specified in Page Setup
  • Split PDF script fixed
  • Unexpected scroll-to-top fixed
  • Numerous issues with non-spec PDFs resolved

PDFpen 1.2  2004-03-17

  • Freehand drawing tool for making your own scribbles
  • Library palette of built-in vector drawings, your images, and your scribbles
  • View and edit PDF document info
  • Rotate page(s)
  • Open multi-page TIFF files (and other graphics files)
  • Ruler support for text imprints
  • Right-to-left multi-page view option
  • Double-click to set default tool

PDFpen 1.1  2004-02-10

  • Hand tool for scrolling
  • Combine PDFs and Split PDF scripts (droplets)
  • Improved drawing speed
  • Outline border for text imprints
  • Improved font and bounds size for default text imprint
  • Slimmer text cursor
  • Better handling of non-spec PDF files
 
 
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