Fixes a form-related incompatibility with Adobe® Acrobat® / Reader®
Fixes case where signature compresses when resized
Other fixes and improvements
Adds pure color options to color picker
Uses default email reader for File > Mail Document command
Resolves issues with color selection for text and comment boxes
Dismisses file dialog when a document is opened
Resolves issue with Combine PDFs script
Other minor fixes and improvements
Modern user interface updated for Yosemite
Viewable OCR layer for proofing OCR text from scanned pages
Context-sensitive popup-menus enable quick edits
Performance enhancements for load and save
Compatible with iCloud Drive
Tools remember last chosen colors and properties
Freeform highlighting
Sign PDF forms via interactive signature fields (not digital signatures)
Text fields support combed/segmented display
Correct typos in OCR text layer (PDFpenPro only)
Export to Microsoft® Excel (.xlsx, .xls), Microsoft® PowerPoint (.pptx), and PDF Archive (PDF/A) formats (requires Internet connection and must be a licensed user, PDFpenPro only)
Add interactive signature fields to forms (PDFpenPro only)
PDFpen 6
Fixes to prepare for upcoming releases of OS X
Other fixes and improvements
Improves performance on Mavericks
Fixes crash when scanner is unplugged while PDFpen is running
Fixes potential crashes with the scanning window
Improves editing bar appearance on Yosemite developer preview
Resolves issue with access to tools when search results are displayed
Adds Text-to-Speech support
Improves save performance, especially with large or complex PDFs
Improves search performance
Restores ⌘5 as keyboard equivalent for Tools -> Text
Improves VoiceOver support for fillable text fields
Improves Accessibility of several user interface elements
Improves performance of Split PDF script
Adds option to skip Create Form Fields alert (PDFpenPro only)
Adds preference to restore all disabled alerts
Adds AppleScript support for owner password, permissions, and selected page
Other fixes and improvements
Adds support for AES-256 encryption from Adobe Acrobat X and later
Adds Open Scripts Folder menu item
Adds support for Zoom In using ⌘+ and Zoom Out using ⌘-
Fixes Combine PDFs script
Fixes Quartz filters
Other fixes and improvements
Exports plain text and rich text
Select language(s) for Word export to improve accuracy
Drag from the Thumbnail view to the Finder and other apps
Drop multiple pages from Preview’s Thumbnails into PDFpen’s Thumbnails
Drop Word documents directly into the Thumbnail view
Adds page count field to the document inspector
Adds support for removing the owner password
Supports Automator workflows in the scripts menu (OS X 10.8 and later)
Numerous fixes and improvements
Minor fixes and improvements
Increases PDF page limit to 999 when creating from HTML (PDFpenPro only)
Improves responsiveness when using a tablet with the scribble tool
Resolves possible crash when printing
Other fixes and improvements
Adds new Redaction toolbar buttons (Block Selection, Erase Selection), which can be installed using View -> Customize Toolbar
Adds support for clickable links from telephone numbers
Adds support for creating tel: links via Create Links from URLs (PDFpenPro only)
Changes the file save command so that it does not allow saving changes to a locked document
Fixes an issue which causes the Page Up / Page Down key to behave incorrectly when Continuous scrolling is enabled
Fixes an issue which causes some document pages to appear blank
Fixes an issue which prevents changing the stroke style or stroke width values when multiple objects are selected
Other fixes and improvements
Improves performance with several classes of PDF document
Reduces memory usage
Minor fixes and improvements
Minor fixes and improvements
Adds support for PDF stamps
Adds a library of standard business stamps (e.g. Approved, Confidential, Sign Here)
Add and view popup notes associated with annotations, such as highlighting and drawing objects
Adds support for saving PDFs to Evernote Business notebooks
Adds support for creating form fields for an entire document, in addition to per page (PDFpenPro only)
Adds Create Links from URLs command to detect and create links (PDFpenPro only)
Adds option to display source URL on pages when creating PDFs from websites (PDFpenPro only)
Checkboxes automatically created in forms are now borderless (PDFpenPro only)
Opens PDF files with missing or incorrect extensions
Adds QuickLook preview of Library items
Adds menu item and keyboard shortcut to insert selected Library item
Resolves a number of issues related to rotated pages and objects
Other fixes and improvements
Adds option to print “Selected Pages in Sidebar” in print dialog
Adds dictionary lookup on three finger tap (OS X 10.8+)
Supports printing multiple, non-contiguous selections of pages
Supports ‘make new page at …’ in AppleScript
Supports enhanced AppleScript printing
Improves performance with encrypted PDFs
Improves performance with PDFs containing inline images
Improves ability to open malformed PDFs
Fixes OCR functionality on Mavericks
Fixes scribble tool on Mavericks
Fixes Populate Script Menu on Mavericks
Other fixes and improvements
Treats PDFs from Print to PDFpen as new, untitled documents
Improves highlighting in documents with irregular word spacing
Resolves cases where pages appeared blank due to unusual coordinates
Resolves a number of issues which prevented opening of specific classes of PDF
Fixes selection on last line of multi-line text fields from Correct Text
Fixes issue with redacting PDFs printed from Chrome
Other minor fixes and improvements
Adds Polish language OCR
Draws annotations when exporting in TIFF format
Pasted plain text now obeys the default font preference
Opens and repairs an additional class of damaged PDF
Fixes Zoom to Width on smaller screens
Fixes internal linking when creating PDF from HTML (PDFpenPro only)
Other minor fixes and improvements
Adds General preference to toggle autosave and versions
Dramatically reduces memory usage
Fixes issues when saving PDF forms
Resolves issues with applying foreground, background, and stroke colors
Respects document permissions for Insert Page Numbers…
Uses default font when automatically creating form fields
Sets multi-line property when automatically creating tall form fields
Improves tab ordering upon automatic form creation
Other minor fixes and improvements
Allows Word export on OS X 10.7 Lion
Preview and QuickLook now respect password-protected PDFs saved by PDFpen
Fixes issues with importing and using Library items
Resolves potential hang when right-clicking in Sidebar
Fixes opening of LaTeX-generated PDFs
Fixes opening of PDF portfolios
Fixes links to PDFpenPro-specific help topics
Allows populating scripts menu on Lion
Other minor fixes and improvements
Adds editing bar for faster, easier access to tools and properties
Export in Microsoft® Word (.doc, .docx) format (requires Internet connection, must be licensed user)
Optimized for full resolution viewing on Retina displays
Updates and improves document window appearance
Supports autosaving and document versions
Supports printing lists of annotations
Adds filtering by type of displayed annotations
Adds option to highlight form fields with transparent background
Adds support for re-ordering items in the Library
Syncs Library via iCloud for use with PDFpen for iPhone/iPad (Mac App Store version only)
Adds Russian language OCR
Edit document permissions to control saving, printing, copying, etc. (PDFpenPro only)
Create form fields automatically (PDFpenPro only)
PDFpen 5
Minor fixes and improvements
Reduces memory usage
Improves ability to open documents not following the PDF specification correctly
Improves OCR error handling
Resolves sandboxing issue with File -> New -> From HTML… on local files (PDFpenPro only)
Other minor fixes
Resolves issue with occasional incorrect page display
Other minor fixes
Fixes issue with saving some PDF documents
Other minor fixes
Fixes potential hang
Improves performance by significantly reducing memory usage
Adopts new method to log in to Evernote
Adopts Apple’s sandboxing for improved security
Other minor fixes
Fixes scanning on OS X 10.8.2
Fixes scanning on Lion (OS X 10.7)
Fixes case where resampling at lower resolution can result in larger saved file
Other minor fixes
Mountain Lion (OS X 10.8) compatible
Other minor fixes and improvements
Fixes potential crash when highlighting a document with 5.8.2
Fixes silent failure of Check for Update in 5.8.2
Fixes an issue which caused PDFpenPro to crash when opening documents under some circumstances
Fixes an issue which affected saving under some circumstances
Fixes an issue which caused PDFpenPro to hang when the sidebar was expanded to cover the entire page area
Fixes an issue which caused PDFpenPro to crash when attempting to cancel PDF from HTML document creation (PDFpenPro only)
Other minor fixes and improvements
Adds screen width as an initial window size preference
Adds menu and toolbar “Zoom to Width” commands which sets the zoom to fill all available display width
Improves OCR accuracy by suppressing the use of ligatures
Improves text selection accuracy in a number of cases
Adds a confirmation prompt before allowing the Edit > Reset Form command to proceed
Adds an error recovery prompt when attempting to save a document to iCloud with a duplicate name
Adds ability to insert text imprints from the library via a double-click
Fixes an issue which caused a gradual shift in color when using text fields
Other minor fixes and improvements
iCloud folders support:
Move documents to iCloud via drag and drop
Remove documents from iCloud to local management via drag and drop
View contents of folders on iCloud
Create new folders on iCloud via drag and drop
Move documents to different folders on iCloud via drag and drop
Rename folders on iCloud
Fixes some OCR issues
Drops support for 32 bit Intel processors due to adoption of Apple’s new ARC memory management
Other minor fixes and improvements
Fix potential issue with saving primarily on Snow Leopard
Fix localization of page numbering
Signed with Gatekeeper-friendly Developer ID from Apple
Fixes gradual shift in color when using comments
Fixes issue with text tool when object stroke is set to none
Fixes for various documents that did not open successfully
Other minor fixes and improvements
iCloud support:
View PDFpen documents on iCloud
Open PDFpen documents on iCloud
Move documents to iCloud
Remove PDFpen documents from iCloud to local management
Delete PDFpen documents on iCloud
Rename PDFpen documents on iCloud
Preview PDFpen document content on iCloud
Integrates with PDFpen for iPad
Other fixes and improvements
Adds preference for alert sound on OCR completion
Adds preference for default sidebar view
Adds file size and document size to document info panel
Shows OCR languages in localized form
Improves full screen handling on Lion
Adds menu titles for highlight colors
Fixes handling for some types of interactive forms
Other fixes and improvements
Fixes issue with saving of Table of Contents data introduced in 5.6
Allows setting the name used with notes and comments
Supports anonymous notes and comments
Adds preference to view document on screen at its physical size
AppleScript access to text of page and document
Separates general and editing preferences
Fixes a number of rotation-related issues
Improves selection accuracy in a number of cases
Eliminates several crashing bugs
Other minor fixes and improvements
Added Bates numbering without leading zeros when digits is 0
Fixed a number of text selection issues
Fixed font setting for text fields (PDFpenPro only)
Added Japanese localization of page numbering
Fixed drawing and positioning issues on first generation (32-bit) Intel machines
Fixed crash when saving forms with text fields on Snow Leopard
Other minor fixes and improvements
Added robust page numbering via Edit > Insert Page Numbers…
Added initial support for Lion full screen mode
Other minor fixes and improvements
Position page numbers in header or footer and set alignment
Alignment options include ”inside, outside“ for facing page printing
Improved Bates Numbering with user-specified prefix, digit count, and starting number
Options for number formatting, including letters and Roman numerals
Fix Insert toolbar button
Extract then edit files from PDF collections / ”portfolios“
Improves Table of Contents editing (PDFpenPro only)
Fixes post-OCR selection in some instances
Other fixes and improvements
Supports saving with 128-bit AES-128 encryption
Supports saving with 256-bit AES-256 encryption
Supports Unicode passwords (AES-256 only)
Allows setting encryption method when saving via AppleScript
Improves performance when opening large documents
Improves handling of off-spec PDFs
Other fixes and improvements
Fix scripting functionality inadvertently broken in 5.2.3
AppleScript support for creating PDFs from HTML (PDFpenPro only)
Fixes problem with performing Correct Text after saving a document
Other fixes and improvements
Select destination for scans
Includes full Japanese help
Fixes OCR-related hang
Other fixes and improvements
Adds Spanish localization
Improves Italian localization
Fixes performance issue with continuous viewing
Other bug fixes and improvements
First Mac App Store release
Adds new welcome window
Fixes problem where saving a scanned image can result in a blank page
Fixes problems which can prevent saving under some circumstances
Fixes problem with the naming of buttons in forms (PDFpenPro)
Fixes ability to turn off password protection during save
Other bug fixes and improvements
Reduced memory footprint for large documents
Added AppleScript document property: ”needs OCR“
Fixed potential hang when using Combine PDFs… script
Fixed problem with printing artifacts and clipping
Numerous minor fixes and improvements
Add support for 32-bit Intel processors
Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) only, 64-bit
Faster operation, better capacity to handle larger documents
Multi-core OCR processes multiple pages in parallel
Redact or erase text, including OCR text
Search and replace text
Search and redact text
Forms support list widgets and http submit button
OCR enhanced to handle colored text on a colored or shaded background
Deskew scanned document pages for improved OCR
Change resolution and color depth of a single image or scanned document to reduce PDF file size
Adjust contrast and apply other effects to a single image or scanned document
Enhanced selection of objects or text by auto-select of needed tool
URL auto-detection when clicking text
Select text within any rectangular region for copying (via option select)
Pinch to zoom via trackpad; zoom by chosen percentage
Measurements shown for rectangular selection and crop
Facing pages viewable with page one shown on the left or right
Print to pre-printed forms via option only to print information added to a document
Scale setting observed when printing
Convert a website into multipage PDF document (PDFpenPro only)
Create list widgets and pop-ups (PDFpenPro only)
Create submit button to submit form data via web or email (PDFpenPro only)
Backend integration enables gathering data from http-submitted forms (PDFpenPro only)