Take Control of PDFpen 7

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Take Control of PDFpen 7

About the Book

PDF serves as a universal document format for all manner of forms, statements, and receipts. And, whether you’ve moved a lot of your documents into the cloud or not, you’ve probably noticed that more and more “paper” is coming your way as PDF files.

But, even as PDFs unstuff our filing cabinets and shrink the piles in our physical inboxes, we need to learn new skills to edit and manage PDFs effectively. Many Mac users have turned to Smile’s affordable PDFpen app to help them sign PDF forms, handle scanned documents, edit PDFs, create PDFs, and even export PDFs to other file formats. With Take Control of PDFpen 7, you’ll learn how to do all these tasks and more on a Mac with PDFpen or PDFpenPro, or on the go with PDFpen for iPad & iPhone.

The book begins with a guide to your purchasing options: PDFpen versus PDFpenPro, from Smile versus the Mac App Store, and the advantages of the iOS version. Next, you’ll meet PDFpen with an overview of the PDF format and a tour of the interface.

Compatibility? PDFpen 7 works with OS X 10.10 Yosemite; we also have Take Control of PDFpen 6 for users of older versions of OS X.

With those preliminaries out of the way, you’ll learn how to:

  • Add and remove pages, and combine pages from multiple files into one PDF.
  • Mark up a PDF with highlights, comments, professional editing marks, and more.
  • Edit a PDF by fixing typos, adding text, formatting text, and redacting confidential text.
  • Scan a document into a PDF, and make the text editable with OCR.
  • View and work directly with OCRed text in the OCR layer (PDFpenPro only)
  • Add clickable links, page numbers, and images.
  • Make a clickable table of contents (PDFpenPro only).
  • Reduce the file size with a Quartz filter.
  • Password-protect a PDF. And (PDFpenPro only), prevent others from printing or editing a PDF.
  • Turn a PDF into a formatted Microsoft Word document, or (PDFpenPro only) export it in Excel or PowerPoint format.

And, you’ll find directions for working with forms:

  • Fill out forms with ease.
  • Add a handwritten signature — in the iOS versions, you can write with a stylus!
  • Print just form entries on a pre-printed form.
  • Create an interactive PDF form for both Mac and Windows (PDFpenPro only) that can collect data and send it to you via email or the Web.

That’s not all! The book also covers how to:

  • Edit, annotate, and navigate PDFs in PDFpen for iPad & iPhone.
  • Get your PDFs into and out of PDFpen in iOS via iCloud Drive, iTunes, Dropbox, and Open In.
  • Print a PDF with its annotations appearing at the end.
  • Store frequently used items (like a logo or signature) in the PDFpen Library.
  • Turn a Web site into a multi-page PDF (PDFpenPro only).

An appendix describes the useful AppleScripts that ship with PDFpen.

This ebook was created in collaboration with Smile, with PDFpen’s developers tech editing the book.

About the Author

Michael E. Cohen
Michael E. Cohen

Michael E. Cohen has lived on the southwest corner of the intersection of technology and the liberal arts for his entire working life. He’s taught writing and literature courses, programmed for the Deep Space Network, designed and implemented instructional word processors, advised dozens of humanities professors on all matters digital, created ebooks, edited ebooks, and even written ebooks, including Take Control of TextExpander, Take Control of PDFpen 6, and Take Control of iBooks Author. As a young man, Michael set out to be a professional dilettante and, after years of struggle, succeeded beyond his wildest dreams.

Table of Contents

  • Read Me First
    • Updates and More
    • What’s New in This Edition
  • Introduction
  • PDFpen Quick Start
  • Get Your Hands on PDFpen
    • Standard or Pro
    • Smile or Mac App Store
    • PDFpen for iPad & iPhone
  • Learn about PDF Files
    • A Short History of the PDF Format
    • A Peek at What Is Inside
    • On Having Realistic Expectations
  • Understand the Tools
    • Where to Find Tools
    • The Selection Tools
    • The Markup Tools
    • The Drawing Tools
    • The Form Creation Tools (Pro Feature)
    • The Object Property Tools
    • The Inspector
    • The Library
  • Navigate a PDF Document
    • Display Pages
    • Navigate Pages
    • Navigate with the Sidebar
    • Navigate with Search Results
  • Create a PDF
    • Make PDFs from Scratch
    • Print to PDF
    • Import from Scans and Graphic Files
    • Combine Existing PDFs
    • Make PDFs from HTML (Pro Feature)
    • Make a PDF Table of Contents (Pro Feature)
  • Take Notes on a PDF
    • Highlight Text
    • Add Commentary
    • Draw Attention
  • Copyedit and Review a PDF
    • Learn about Copyediting
    • Learn about Review Practices
  • Fill Out PDF Forms
    • Fill Out an Interactive Form
    • Fill Out a Non-interactive Form
    • Add a Scanned Signature
  • Edit a PDF
    • Add, Edit, and Remove Text
    • Add and Alter Pictures
    • Rearrange, Rotate, and Crop Pages
    • Insert Page Numbers
    • Create Links
  • Make an Interactive PDF Form (Pro Feature)
    • Build a Form
    • Polish the Layout
  • Publish Your PDFs
    • Save or Export Your PDFs
    • Print Your PDFs
  • Use PDFpen in iOS
    • Find Tools and Commands
    • Get PDFs in and out of PDFpen in iOS
  • Appendix A: The PDFpen AppleScripts
    • The Scripts
    • Where to Find the Scripts
  • Learn More
  • About This Book
    • Ebook Extras
    • About the Author
    • About the Publisher
  • Copyright and Fine Print

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