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Help: Transitioning to PDFpen 10

Welcome to PDFpen 10 . While you’ll recognize the familiar interface, we thought you could use a guide to some of the new things you’ll see.

Thank you to all those who’ve sent in feedback over the years. We want to encourage you to continue to let us know what you want. We hope the following walk-through of version 10 shows that we take your feedback to heart.

What’s different from PDFpen 9?

A few new Edit and File menu additions, some new tools, and a lot of improvements and updates.

Watermarks

You asked, we responded. Now you can watermark your documents. Far beyond the Imprint All Pages script, with watermarks you can pick an image or text box, rotate it 45° or 90° degrees, and make it semi-transparent before putting it on every page, or just odd-numbered pages, you pick. Watermarks appear behind any text already in the document.

Headers and Footers

Add headers and footers to your document. Found in Edit > Header, Footer, Page Number, you can customize the position and alignment on the page, pick the font, and customize the page range.

Batch OCR

OCR as many documents as you want, all at the same time. File > OCR Files opens the OCR Files window where you can add a batch of documents to be OCRed, check on their progress, and add more as needed. All this can run in the background as you continue working in PDFpen.

New Precision Edit Tool

Previously un-selectable objects, such as line art and logos, are now selectable with the Precision Edit Tool edit tool. Activate it with a double-click of the Edit tool, second from the left on the editing bar. Select images or blocks of text line by line to move, resize or delete.

Move and Resize Images Inline

Using the Precision Edit tool keep document file sizes the same. Select and move images and keep them unchanged, or resize or delete.

Improved Page Numbering

We’ve updated the page numbering dialog with a better preview to show where your page numbers are located compared to your headers and footers. And, you can pick your font right from the dialog.

Increased Size for Library Items

Get a better view of your smaller Library items with the new Magnify button magnify button. Toggle it to increase or decrease the size of your Library items.

Improved Color selection

The color palette now matches what’s in PDFpen for iPad & iPhone. This means more colors for drawing and writing.

For a complete list of all the little tweaks and big additions take a look at What’s New in PDFpen 10.


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