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PDFpen: Effortlessly edit your PDFs!Normally: $49.95 ZOT Price: $34.95 |
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PDFpen is an intuitive, easy-to-use tool for editing PDF documents – and it’s reasonably priced! You can add content (such as text, images and signatures), manipulate pages, and even correct and modify existing PDF text.
Need to sign an electronic fax? I have modified PDF files with the full Acrobat (in OS 9 and earlier) in the past but have always felt a little uneasy. The beauty of PDFpen (apart from its delightfully low price) is the simple graphic interface where you can see it all happening. Great work, folks. "As far as this Mac user is concerned, and I have been using them since the first one appeared on the market, PDFPen is one of the most useful apps I have ever used." "PDFpen is great for adding my signature to PDFs. I really like the suite of apps you’ve built – great productivity tools that make sense. Keep up the good work!" |
February 15th, 2007 at 12:07 am
Fantastic application! I can’t recommend it enough. Unfortunately, I already purchased it a few months ago at full price.
February 15th, 2007 at 12:35 am
Just today, I was needing something like this…. I’ll try it out and see if I can convince myself to shell out the money.
Unless I’m the winner of NextZot for today, this would be nice for whoever is.
(and if the winner isn’t me, and doesn’t want it, come on over to iTrade!)
February 15th, 2007 at 2:46 am
Personally I would have liked to have seen the pro version on offer here too – that would be of more use to me :(
February 15th, 2007 at 4:49 am
Just to clarify, this is an alternative for those who don’t have Acrobat Pro, correct? A user comment says Acrobat made them “uneasy” (in OS 9 and earlier). Is anyone here using ANYTHING in OS 9 nowdays? And what made them “uneasy”? It’s irrevelant to comment/compare on an OS 9 app is all I’m saying in 2007. But for someone who uses a current version of Acrobat Pro on a modern OS, and on daily basis, is there some feature that this has that makes it better than Pro? Does it offer Scan to PDF, which I also use daily for saving printed bills/statements/invoices and shredding originals.
I’m not knocking this app for those who don’t have Acrobat Pro, but please clarify that comment saying this app is better that Acrobat. As I understand it, it is a very much lower priced app than Pro which is reason alone to buy it if you don’t have Pro, but functionallity wise, that’s it.
If you don’t have Pro, buy this. If you do have Pro, please give me a reason what this program offers that would make me ZOT this one?
February 15th, 2007 at 5:43 am
No “Did you win” link on this???
February 15th, 2007 at 8:24 am
This is an excellent app and, unfortunately, I paid full price, too. =(
Great zot … best in a long, long, long time.
February 15th, 2007 at 9:20 am
PDFpen saves you time doing operations that can be done in Acrobat, but can be done more easily in PDFpen.
We have talked to a lot of customers who own both products for that reason. The ease of drag-and-drop for merging, splitting or reordering PDF pages is one use that they specifically mention.
If you do a lot of professional work with PDFs, it won’t take long to save the amount of time to justify the $34.95 price.
On the other hand, PDFpen does not handle functions required for professional commercial printing, like color separations. If that’s your gig, you still need Acrobat.
There is not direct “Scan to PDF” acquisition from a scanner in PDFpen. But PDFpen adds “Open with PDFpen” to the PDF menu in the print dialog. You can scan a document with your usual scanner software, and then open it directly in PDFpen using File > Print > PDF > Open with PDFpen. Then you’d be able to make annotations or combine the scan with other PDFs before saving, for example.
Feel free to send your questions to support@pdfpen.com.
- Jean at SmileOnMyMac
February 15th, 2007 at 10:06 am
This works well but only if the pdf you have is editable. I bought it to use on bunch of financial form pdf’s only to find they are locked so, for me, the program has been almost worthless. I just assumed that all pdf’s were editable; after all why would you put a form in pdf format that you couldn’t edit but more often then not this has been my experience…..
February 15th, 2007 at 10:26 am
Kit – have you tried adding a layer and some text-boxes on top of those forms? I frequently scan forms to a PDF then fill them out in PDFPen using this method.
February 15th, 2007 at 11:26 am
Thanks for the reply from the developer. Acrobat Pro supports drag and drop too (and rather easily) by using the Pages tab, I use it all the time. I’ll look at it some more this evening. How do you split using drag and drop? I took a PDF and tried to drag the page to the finder and it just moves around in the window of the program?
Thanks
February 15th, 2007 at 1:13 pm
Hmm … how would I use this? Well, for editing PDF forms that I have to return by mail or fax, or on those rare occasions when I want to enlighten someone (by excerpting portions of a PDF, highlighting things and then forwarding it to them).
This is an invaluable product, however I would use it VERY Infrequently. Moreover, for those of us that are Financially Challenged it costs too much.
*[ Request ] Brian, please ask the vendor if they will give us a ZOTGIEST discount.
Thanks either way.
Someone who wants this. :-)
February 15th, 2007 at 1:53 pm
Can you create bookmarks in PDF files with this program? I looked at it maybe a year ago but with no bookmark creation I have to go back to Acrobat on Windows. Anyone know some Mac software that can create PDF bookmarks – I’ve seen lots of PDF utilities but none seem to have bookmark support.
-nice Zot! though
February 15th, 2007 at 4:07 pm
Nice zot, this will pair well with Yep. (You should do a zot for Yep also!)
February 15th, 2007 at 11:54 pm
Just yesterday I was recommending this software.
February 16th, 2007 at 6:24 am
@Kit:
this might help in your situation: http://pdfkey.com/
June 8th, 2007 at 9:51 am
how is it supposed I can buy this software if you don´t have a link to do that… I want to buy the PDF pen