![]() I have also demonstrated Acrobat’s editing tools focused narrowly on cleaning up messily formatted web recipes for my local Macintosh users group and in articles for the now defunct macCompanion eZine. Most of my time is spent either word processing in MS Word and on occasion NeoOffice, or in editing and annotating downloaded (mostly) or scanned and OCR’d PDF files using Acrobat Pro or more recently PDFpen Pro.īy circumstance I’ve become quite proficient in using the editing and page reformatting = features of Adobe Acrobat Pro 9.x, in part from having had the opportunity to beta test version 9 for Adobe. I am passingly skillful at most non-graphics oriented software and even review Macintosh software genre tools for word processing, image editing and label creation, email, database creation and use, and internet search. – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Doc’s Introduction Including the Publisher’s Summaryīackground On This Software Genre - I spend somewhere between six to eight hours a day on my iMac doing research for and writing many articles and an occasional book. The combination of a Macintosh compliant design, an easy to explore interface, and acceptable availability of help made becoming comfortable with it an easy task. However, an occasional task that isn’t intuitive only took a quick check at the instruction manual or help files. None of my experiments crashed this program. The strengths includes include a clean but not quite intuitive interface, low cost and exceptional stability. Like all complex and full-featured software packages, the product has both its strengths and an occasion weakness. Weaknesses: Within its stated design and functional scope, I could find no serious or even significant flaws in the software. At only $50, PDFpen goes well beyond Preview’s PDF processing power, yet it offers some of the same features you’ll find in the much more costly Acrobat Pro. ![]() Strengths : When it comes to modifying PDFs, SmileOnMyMac’s PDFpen far exceed the functionality of OS X’s free Preview and is a one-for-one feature competitor to Adobe’s $449 Acrobat Pro. This is NOT an Acrobat Pro replacement, nor is it meant to be, but it’s a darn fine PDF content ‘text’ and PDF page-editing tool. For Macintosh OS X 10.4 and 10.5, use PDFpen 4.7.1 or PDFpen Pro 4.7.1.Īudience: All individuals needing to modify PDF, no matter their general level of Macintosh proficiency.PDFpen 5.x and PDFpen Pro 5.x require: Mac OS X version 10.6 (Snow Leopard) or later.System Requirements: System Requirements: Ī Functional time-limited demo is available An upgrade from PDFpen version 5 is available for $25. An upgrade from Pen to Pen Pro is available, if desired at a later date. Vendor: Smile Software ( Developer’s Website)Ĭost: Price PDFpen $55.95, while the Pro Version is $99.95. Product: PDFpen Pro 5.2.1 – a tool to split, combine, re-order, and edit PDF files GCC compiler and toolset (original project by FSF.By Harry Babad, © Copyright 2011, All Rights Reserved.Requires a Mac with a multicore processor. NVIDIA GeForce 9400M, GeForce 9600M GT, GeForce 8600M GT, GeForce GT 120, GeForce GT 130, GeForce GTX 285, GeForce 8800 GT, GeForce 8800 GS, Quadro FX 4800, Quadro FX5600.Requires one of the following graphics cards or graphics processors: Require 1GB of memory and an additional 3GB of available disk space. Requires a Mac with an NVIDIA 9400M graphics processor. Requires iSight camera (built-in or external), USB video class (UVC) camera, or FireWire DV camcorder. Auto-setup requires enabling the Autodiscovery feature of Microsoft Exchange Server. Requires Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 Update Rollup 4. Some iChat features offer better performance and quality with higher system capabilities.Backdrop effects when using a DV camcorder require fixed focus, exposure, and white balance.Video chats require an iSight camera (built in or external), USB video class (UVC) camera, or FireWire DV camcorder and a 128-Kbps upstream and downstream Internet connection.Audio chats require a microphone and a 56-Kbps Internet connection.Requires a 1.6GHz processor or faster for improved deinterlacing. In iChat and the Finder requires a 128-Kbps Internet connection (300 Kbps recommended). Requires Windows XP with Service Pack 2 or Windows Vista (sold separately). ![]() Backdrop effects when using a DV camcorder require fixed focus, exposure, and white balance. Requires an iSight camera (built in or external), USB video class (UVC) camera, or FireWire DV camcorder. Requires an additional hard drive or Time Capsule (sold separately). Some features require a compatible Internet service provider fees may apply.įeature-specific requirements Time Machine. ![]()
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