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Acrobat can read embedded fonts, even ones that are subsetted (including only the characters used in the document), and your “touch ups” appear in the native font whenever possible. PDFpen’s one drawback relative to Acrobat is how it handles dropping in revised text. You can select text to copy it out, or use a Correct Text feature to edit it. This toolset is also useful when you’re given a PDF, instead of generating it yourself, or when you’re working through revisions on a document that you’re handing back and forth among a team. You can also delete objects, or redact parts of a document-this is true redaction, where the underlying data is removed, rather than just a black bar being overlaid.

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Like Acrobat, PDFpen is a rich PDF editor, letting you work with text, images, attachments, and annotations, and edit anything that appears on a page, including all of those elements.

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In testing this new release, I went back and forth between PDFpen and Acrobat, and Smile’s software was a consistent relief to which to return. That’s partly because Smile chose to use a straightforward toolbar (introduced a couple of versions ago) mirrored in a Tools menu to spell it all out.

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PDFpen has seemingly nearly as many features and options as Adobe Acrobat, but I consistently find myself able to figure out how to accomplish what I want in PDFpen, while I often have to consult Web documentation and poke around in Acrobat to get to where I’m going.

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If you need PowerPoint or PDF/A (an archived format of PDF) exports, those are also available in the Pro version, but still require a round-trip to Smile’s servers. The same PDF exported to Excel in the Pro release with equally well preserved tabular detail, including merging and spanning cells. I exported a complicated PDF that included a very detailed table and the resulting version in Word was almost pixel perfect and fully editable. In version 8, both versions use a local converter to export a Microsoft Word compatible. This is a security risk and also requires being online. PDFpen offered export to other formats in previous releases but required a round-trip through the Smile servers. Both versions also let you record audio annotations you can add to a PDF as well as play them back. The basic PDFpen is more of a viewer while the Pro edition can add and delete attachments and annotations. PDFpen can extract file attachments and annotations, and also preview them. PDFs can support file attachments and annotations, and PDFpen now fully embraces that, which is handy because it lets a PDF file act as a kind of portmanteau or a sticky-note festooned marked-up copy.

If it’s yellow with an X inside, you can click it and see that a self-signed certificate was used, and obtain more information about the certificate. If the triangle is green and has a checkmark, the app has verified it clicking the corner brings up additional technical details. PDFpen shows that a PDF is signed by displaying a triangular notch in the upper-right corner. PDFpen even includes a process to create a self-signed certificate, which is useful for showing a document wasn’t tampered with but doesn’t help assure identity. You can use certificates from Adobe’sĪdobe Approved Trust List (AATL), which can cost from about $150 to $300 a year as an individual, as well as so-called self-signed certificates that you can create yourself.

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PDFpen now supports validating signatures signed by Acrobat and other software, as well as adding such verification itself. (In this case, I trusted a self-signed certificate.) (There are ways outside of the PDF for assuring that the right person has access to those keys and it’s the person you think it is.)Ī valid digital signature in a PDF displays as a green checkmark in the upper right. (I don’t work inside a corporation or in industries that require document validation.) A securely signed document allows a recipient to verify both that the PDF is unchanged since it was signed and that it was sent by a person who had access to a given set of private keys associated with an identity. The PDF format and Adobe Acrobat supported digital certificates starting years ago, although I’ve never seen a signed document in the wild. (Unless otherwise noted, all new features are available in both editions.)

Smile has focused on several areas that mix tools and tasks useful to individuals, groups, and people in companies or exchanging secure documents. For those who already use or know PDFpen, let me jump to the chase about new features.