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DESCRIPTION

PDF Studio is an easy to use yet powerful program to work with PDF documents within your workflow.

View & Print: Open any pdf document and send it to the printer. Documents will be automatically resized to fit the paper size. PDF Studio supports all types of pdf fonts.

PDF Interactive Forms: Fill any pdf form and save it locally. Once the form is filled, you can flatten form fields to obtain a non-editable version of the form.

Sticky Notes: Open any pdf document and add your sticky notes or comments to the document using text and graphic markup tools. You can add free text notes, or draw shapes such as lines, circles, rectangles to work with the existing content of the pdf document.

Audio Comment: Record or import a sound and add it to a pdf document.

Text Selection and Markups: Highlight, cross out or underline text.

Rubber Stamps: Mark your documents as urgent, paid, confidential. You can also create your own Signature Stamp. All stamps can be saved to be reused later.

Headers and Footers: Add titles, page numbers to your pdf documents.

Hyperlinks: Add hyperlinks to your pdf documents.

Modify Pages: Append, merge or split documents. Delete, insert, replace pages in a pdf document. Or extract pages to create a new pdf document.

Passwords and Permissions: Add passwords or change permissions on your pdf documents. You can set /remove permissions to print, to modify, to copy, to annotate and to fill form fields. PDF Studio encrypt pdf documents using the higher security level (128-bit RC4 encryption).

Scan to PDF: Scan documents from any Twain compliant scanner into a new or existing pdf document.

Batch functions: Stamp, Print, or Encrypt multiple documents with a single click as a batch.

PDF To Images: Converts pages of a pdf documents to JPG images or TIFF images (optimized for scanning).

Import/Export: Import and Export comments and form data in FDF or XFDF format.

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WHAT'S NEW
Version 6.10:
  • New (Pro) -- Many improvements around digital signatures: improved user interface to sign a document, ability to delete and resize a signature field, ability to manage digital ids and trusted certificates, ability to add multiple digital signatures to a document.
  • New -- Cloud annotation useful to markup architectural drawings.
  • New (Pro) -- Batch preflight to verify PDF/X compliancy for multiple documents at once.
  • New (Pro) -- Batch crop to crop multiple documents at once and change the margins for crop box, bleed box, trim box or art box.
  • New -- Screenshot tool allowing users to select a page area with a lasso and copy the image to the clipboard or export the image to a file.
  • New -- From the thumbnail view, added ability to work on multiple pages at once to delete them, rotate them, drag them or flatten comments.
  • New -- Support for barcodes. XFA form fields containing a barcode ui will now be rendered in PDF Studio.
  • New -- Ability to copy and paste annotations.
  • New -- Ability to search within annotations from the text search dialog.
  • Improvement (Pro) -- Improved batch user interface concerning the selection of files and folders to process. Users can now preview the files included in the batch and reorder them as needed.
  • Improvement -- Improved text highlight rendering. It is now a perfect text highlight obtained by using multiply composite.
  • Improvement -- Added a user setting to remember a default scanner so users are not always prompted to choose their scanner.
  • Improvement -- Added a user setting for default paper size to be used when creating new documents, adding pages and creating a preflight report.
  • Improvement -- Added a "Clear Security" button under the security dialog so users can remove passwords and permissions in a single-click.
  • Improvement -- Improved title bar to show the document name first (before the application name) so users can distinguish documents when multiple documents are minimized on the toolbar.
  • Improvement -- When drawing annotations such as cloud, polygon or perimeter annotations, and using the auto-complete option from the mouse menu, PDF Studio will now include the current location of the mouse as the last vertex.
  • Fix -- Issue with bookmarks. When inserting a new page in the document, all bookmarks to pages that are following the inserted page will now remain the same.
  • Fix -- Issue with scrolling to annotations. When using the single page view and clicking on an annotation in the comments list, PDF Studio was not scrolling to the appropriate location in the document as expected.
  • Fix -- Internal bug fixes.
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.4 or later.

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Developer:Qoppa Software
Downloads:7,868
  - Version d/l:222
Business:Applications
License:Demo
Date:17 Nov 2009
Platform:PPC/Intel
Price:$60.00
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Oct 31 2009

BAADEN  The app doesn't look great, but for me it has one feature that I didn't find elsewhere yet: I am a user of an Intuos tablet and want to do free-hand annotations (corrections) to a PDF file that I can then send other people involved.

Preview doesn't do it ; Skim does the graphical annotation very poorly and you cannot export it as PDF.

PDF Studio does it properly.

Any other alternative apps known?  
(Version 6.01)

praisebury
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Sep 30 2009

ANON BUD  I think it's more than about time for these developers who port Windows apps to the Mac platform to either quit doing so or spend the time making an app that actually looks, acts, and feels like a native Mac app.

Go with Preview and Skim. They're both free!  
(Version 6.01)

praisebury
+2
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Sep 30 2009

DR. GIRLFRIEND  I agree. Formulate Pro is another good free one.

http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/19911/formulatepro  
(Version 6.01)

praisebury
+1

Apr 6 2009
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RUBAIYAT  I really can not see the point of these programs. Except for the ability to fill in pdf forms just about everything else can be done in Preview in OSX 10.5.

What Mac users really need is a method for distilling postscript files or checking for adequate resolution and to convert rgb intrusions in cmyk .pdfs going to commercial printers.

Neat and fast ways of splitting up multi-page pdfs for importing into Cocoa apps would be good as well.

I agree with all the other posters that this is the laziest port of software I have seen in a long time and I would not dream of paying what they are asking.

Maybe the message will hit home and they will do some work on this after realising that the Mac market is not as desperate as the PC market.  
(Version 5.51)

praisebury
+4
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Aug 19 2008

TRRLL  Highlighting works nicely, but not enough to justify the price and the otherwise very poor Mac interface.  
(Version 5.0)

praisebury
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Dec 22 2007

CHRIS HABIG  Considering the following:

1. Preview already does just about every single thing this app claims to do.

2. The app is an ugly Windows port.

3. They want $60 dollars for it!!

I can't recommend this application.  
(Version 4.80)

praisebury
+5
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Aug 22 2007

ANDREW SCOTT  I tried this application only briefly and found the interface to be very dated.

I was interested in the stamp feature. I imported a scan of my signature but it only seems to accept JPEG and GIF formats so devising a stamp with alpha channel transparency, so that it simulates writing your name, say on a dotted line, is rather ineffectual due to the bounding box of the image.

It may be that this software has the power and flexibility you need but for my limited purposes it's too expensive and too unpleasant. Oh well.  
(Version 4.5.2)

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May 2 2007

SOUNDSGOODTOME  This is frankly the worst-looking application I've seen in many years. It looks like a bad OS9 app. No; it looks like a bad OS8 app.

Perhaps it performs well; I don't really know. Due to its unseemly appearance, I simply wasn't the least bit interested in determining how well it performs.

I gained quite a bit of insight when I checked the developer's web site to see if the app has particular features I need. Links to the online user manual for detailed information revealed that PDF Studio is a Windows application that has simply been "ported" to the Mac platform.

I don't have a problem with that, in theory. Other developers have successfully ported applications from one platform to another. No problem! But in this case, no effort was made to make the application attractive or to make it look like a Mac app. (Or any effort that was made was 100% unsuccessful.)

Although on the surface PDF Studio appears to have more features than Smile On My Mac's "PDF Pen," I'll live without the extra features in order to keep working with an app that's a pleasure to look at (while working).  
(Version 4.41)

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