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Help: Transitioning to PDFpen 7

Welcome to PDFpen 7 We've been hard at work listening to your feedback and continually making PDFpen better. This page explains some changes you veteran users may notice.

What’s different from PDFpen 6?

  • The Look
    The overall look and feel has been updated to compliment the new OS X 10.10 Yosemite.
  • Context sensitive menus
    Control-click or right-click on an element in your PDF, a context menu will appear for fast access to tools and options.
  • Search
    Search has moved out of the sidebar and into the toolbar. You'll notice a new Find button which opens its own floating window for results.
  • Export
    There are more options in the export dialog now that PDFpenPro supports export to Microsoft® Excel (.xlsx, .xls), Microsoft® PowerPoint (.pptx), and PDF Archive (PDF/A) formats.
  • Sidebar
    The search has moved out to the toolbar, so the options are trimmed, and re-ordered.
  • Forms
    When using the newly supported specialized signature fields a new popup window will appear to help you add a signature to a document. With PDFpenPro, you can add a specialized signature field to your own forms, and the button for that is among the form elements in the editing bar.
  • Editing Bar
    You will notice as you switch between tools that the color chosen during a tool’s use will stick with that tool as you switch between tools. For PDFpenPro users, there is a new button to include specialized signature fields in your forms.
  • OCR
    There is a new item in the View menu which allows you to make the OCR layer visible. This allows you to proof the OCR results. PDFpenPro users can fix typos in that OCR layer.
  • For a complete list of all the little tweaks and big additions take a look at What’s New in PDFpen 7.


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