 | Nov 27 2009 |
PONY The application appears to use Java. It no longer works with the release of Java shipping by Apple. It uses depreciated Java calls and simply quits. Checking Console reveals [Deprecated] CocoaJava: com.apple.cocoa.foundation.NSRuntime [NSJavaVirtualMachine initWithClassPath:] FATAL: cannot initialize ObjCJava. Exit Exited with exit code: 255
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| Oct 25 2009 |
DAATH Hmm, It was so easy to create multiple documents in one pdf booklet with last version of MAC OSX. So bad now it doesn't work with SnowLeopard v10.6.1.
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 | Sep 9 2009 |
CA. PDFLab did work fine on my system under OSX snow leopard for sever hours; it suddenly quit and did not even respond* - I really wonder where the bug is sitting. It is not the first application that quits service under snow leopard in this way. The same happened for instance with visual hub - I got this one to work using some tricks, from case to case. *it is not even visible when I look at the system's activity using "top" in the terminal. In the case of visual hub, there seem to be some apple script errors. In the case of PDFLab, I really do not know. what the source could be... maybe someone can help me.
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| Aug 31 2009 |
LENRDZELIG This program sadly does not work with Snow Leopard. And it looks like it is no longer being developed.
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| Jul 23 2009 |
DRDUL Yes, it works on 10.5.7. As Daniel noted, it crashes when attempting to add a file by clicking the icon at top left, but files can be dragged into PDFLab without problems. I used it to remove the password from a camera manual so I could add bookmarks (it's unbelievable that in 2009, manufacturers are still producing 150-page PDFs without bookmarks). Select the file in the PDFLab window, press Command-R and a new password-free version is created. Fantastic!
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| Jun 16 2009 |
FORMICA Unfortunately, PDFLab no longer seems to work in Mac OS 10.5.7. It's a terrible shame because it's one of my favorite apps.
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| Jun 19 2009 |
DANIEL PAGE I had it crash the first time I tried to add pages by clicking the icon in the program. I was able to add pages, though, by dragging them in from finder (actually leap). Hopefully it keeps working, I just made a pdf file out of a 63 separate .jpg files that somebody decided to scan a book as
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 | Apr 20 2009 |
KLAUSKINSKI PDFLab is still the best PDF-unlocker. It decrypted (unlocked) any of my "secured" (locked) PDFs by doing this: Drag a PDF onto PDFLab's list, select it there, and press Apple-R. The application then rebuilds the locked doc and saves it 1:1 as an unlocked doc. Even if it was protected by a master password etc.pp.! (I'm using OSX.4.11.) BTW: It is not illegal to modify your PDF data 'for your own use'. It is only illegal to re-publish or re-sell etc. copyrighted PDF contents that you have modified without permission.
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| Jul 14 2008 |
BRENINOZ This app never worked for me. I tried to combine PDFs but it just crashed every time. I tried with security protected PDFs and PDFs without any security.
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| Oct 25 2007 |
APPLEDOGX The watermark feature doesn't work on my Mac. (Intel/MacOS 10.4.10) I tried both text and image, and the file is always devoid of either one. Too bad. This is really just what I need to do.
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| Aug 9 2009 |
RUBAIYAT You might have a look at how your .pdf is constructed using Adobe Illustrator's layers. Apple Pages files for some odd reason generate 2 white backgrounds and Acrobat detects only the 1st one and inserts the watermark just above that. The watermark is then hidden behind the 2nd white background. PDFLab maybe doing the same.
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| Aug 16 2007 |
MSTAC It's really an utility I can't live without. Reordering/merging/splitting pdfs finally made easy end efficient! Thank you!
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| Jul 6 2007 |
WHIT_G I've loved using this app until just now - it stopped working. I'm getting an error (OS 10.4.10) that says that it requires Java 1.4 and won't work with 1.5. I am using the latest version and just downloaded it again to make sure. Anybody else have this problem?
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| Jun 6 2007 |
KSJAFWEMFA PDFLab does not maintain page size and orientation when combining PDFs. This dramatically reduces its utility for people who need to combine PDFs exported from Word that are split due to section breaks with different orientations. I have not tested different paper sizes within the same document.
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| Apr 13 2007 |
JADDER Incredibly useful little app that comes in handy from time to time. It would be great though to see a preview of the page instead of generic file icon to know if it should be rotated first. But it's the easiest way I know to get a bunch of images and/or pdf files into a single pdf document.
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| Mar 16 2007 |
STONELLI PDFLab still crashes when I want to add a pdf (either with drag&drop or with the "add" button). I have installed (and reinstalled) the version 2.0.3r2 and I'm running OS 10.4.8 Any idea why I can't add any files? | |
| Nov 11 2006 |
DR NO I was so excited to come upon this program. Unfortunately, most of its nice features do not work for me. It would not remove a blank page I'd added as a test; it would not add a watermark from a gif as it says it will; it would not get the page size and orientation right when combining pdfs created via my Canon scanner, its twain driver and Toolbox, nor with pdfs created in Preview from scanned tif images. Its prefs will not keep the selected printer, and on combining the aforesaid pdfs it ignores the page size setting and scales the images to 24% in landscape oirentation instead of the selected portrait orientation. It did properly combine several downloaded pdfs of government forms, presumably created with Adobe Acrobat. But to me that's useless. I'm running X.4.8.
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| May 12 2006 |
PEANUT BUTTER 2.0 would crash each time I added files (10.3.9) after many months of perfect use. So i updated to 2.0.2 and it chokes when outputing pdf files created in Excel (office 2004) and some other random pdf files. Error message, "Processing Error: For some unknown reason PDFLab is unable to complete the process. Please hit cancel to close this window and try to retrieve the created PDF file from the Finder." The app opens up the temp folder and presents me with the "pdfoutput.pdf" file, which has worked everytime. A bit of an inconvenince. I still rate this a 4.5+ (and also donated to the author). | |
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| Apr 26 2006 |
FRANSIK Rocks. If perfection would not be so close, I would miss the ability to batch fill the PDF-Info fields (i.e. title, subject, author, keywords, creator) in a similar way iTunes proceeds for MP3 tags, and, eventually, the ability to downsize the PDF files...
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| Apr 11 2006 |
TTLCNTRLPRINT Simply fantastic additional software for sorting PDFs and PDF pages. This has a lot of features even Acrobat 7.0.7 Professional doesn't. totalcontrolprint
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| Apr 6 2006 |
ANAME My previously reported problem is all gone now. Now it's time for me to give this awesome app the score that it deserves: Splendid and perfect. 5 stars !!!
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| Apr 4 2006 |
SWEETBLUE Terrific, fantastic app. As .pdf's becoming increasingly popular as the file-de-jour in today's e-business climate (at least mine: entertainment), this little jewel allows me to paste .pdf's printed from a variety of OSX programs, all natively formatted, in any order I choose, all into one, single document which I can then email away. It's like a digital Kinkos -- FREE. Sans cut trees. Sans shipping. Nice.
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| Mar 19 2006 |
ANAME I will wait to review this app (at which point I will probably give it 5 stars), until the following little kink is fixed. At least for me (I'm using OSX 10.4.5 on a Powermac G5 dual 2.5 Ghz, 1.5 GB RAM), it always crashes when I'm trying to drag a couple of picture files into its window. And the same happens when I'm going through the Add File>Open dialog (albeit not seemingly exactly as often as it does when I drag and drop files. On a further evaluation, it doesn't seem to crash anytime, when I'm dragging actual pdf files, only when dealing with image/picture files, such as .jpg, .png, etc. It's a great app for sure! (And yet, it works flawlessly when consolidating .pdf files.) But I'd be very happy if this crash bug when adding pictures could be addressed. :) | |
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| Mar 8 2006 |
INTERSTITIAL Wow! Just what was needed! I'm really glad it's free. Not because I'm cheap, but because this is the sort of thing that I don't need often enough to justify spending from my small budget. I would just do without it. So I'm very grateful.
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| Mar 8 2006 |
ANAME Astonishing. I was using Combine PDFs earlier, but this gives so much more options.
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| Mar 7 2006 |
MAGOSILVAN Useful, fast and efficient: a must have!
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| Mar 7 2006 |
ORION MK. V Works like butter on those fluffy PDFs. Yum! Great app. Fair price.
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| Nov 20 2005 |
ZAC Exactly what I needed. Thanks so much!
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| May 20 2005 |
CHRISTOPHE Very good software. I have just created easily only one file starting from 17 files created with Illustrator 10 and saved in .pdf. No problem.
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| May 14 2005 |
ARVIDTP Really great. I love it. Very handy for papers with figures at the end - merge them all in one fell swoop! But sometimes PDFs go in with text that is selectable/copiable in Preview and come out with the text being no longer selectable as text in preview. It is selectable in acrobat reader, but who wants to use that bloated thing all the time? I just wish this could be fixed. Thanks!
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| May 13 2005 |
ANONYMOUS 5 stars...yes...wow! This developer did for combining PDFs what Apple did for creating them from any application. I am amazed at polish of this final product, the ease of use, and the fact that's it freeware (donationware), considering how useful it is. The professional option, Acrobat Pro is a few hundred $$ and more painful to use for easily joining PDF files. A lot of developers make great tools for mac users, and we are thankful that they are there. This is one app that fills a void in a big way. | |
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| Feb 20 2005 |
ANONYMOUS Awe... some...
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| Feb 13 2005 |
HUSSEIN ALAZAAT what a great software!! but i wish if it has some compression technique..
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| May 13 2005 |
ANONYMOUS my original pdf files totalled 184K, the final pdf was 172K. better than the original, I can live with that.
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| Jan 29 2005 |
ANONYMOUS Just had a situation where I needed to merge two PDF's and this tool worked perfectly!
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| Jan 28 2005 |
ANONYMOUS Would be nice if it correctly resolved aliases. Otherwise quite useful.
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| Dec 21 2004 |
CTOPFEL Had to use this to cut oune page out and put another in. | |
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| Dec 10 2004 |
BRANDON This is a terrific, complimentary, user-friendly application! The only thing that would perfect it for my use is the ability to highlight and copy text (i.e. hyperlinks, email addresses, account numbers) within the saved PDF. I save most emails to PDF and like the having the ability to easily retrieve text from them instead of having to squint as I try to read and retype the text. Finding a way to allow hyperlinks clickable within the PDF would be a great addition as well.
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| Oct 10 2004 |
SILVERDR For being free - very, very nice.
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| Sep 10 2004 |
SERGILLO Good app. To be a great app, it will have choices to produce compressed or high quality pdfs. Thanks for it!
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| Sep 10 2004 |
ANONYMOUS Nice. It should have an option to produce pdfs for screen (low rez/smaller file) or print (hi rez/larger file).
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| Sep 4 2004 |
TONE Functionally this is a great utility. However, the name should be PDF FLAB, as it produces files which are just too vast to ba a practical solution. It's a pity, because otherwise it's a very handy ap.
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| Sep 1 2004 |
DAVID It looks promising, but currently buggy! Attempting to 'Creat PDF' I get the message: "Please wait...Processing page 1..." . I can wait forever, but nothing really happens. I use OSX 10.3.5.
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| Sep 1 2004 |
JLARO Works well, but produces files WAY to big, as reported by another reader, four times the combined original sizes in my test. This issue should be addressed in priority.
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| Sep 1 2004 |
CHARLES HUFF I cannot seem to get this thing ro work... It just gives me a error message when it starts intializing after clicking 'create pfd', I too am running 10.3.5.
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| Sep 1 2004 |
PROF AD In my report I forgot to add the 5 stars ! It is quite rarely that we get a chance to download such an elegant, as well as professional, piece of software. It closes the Adobe Distiller gap for frustrated Mac users, and works smoothly under OSX 10.3.5. Above all, it is absolutely free. What a service to the Mac community!
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| Sep 1 2004 |
SHAITAN Works splendidly. I was able archive to PDF several folders of old JPEGs (200 to be exact), and able to merge several PDFs into one. Awesome at twice the price. ;-)
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| Sep 1 2004 |
MICHAEL I have tried three ways to join two pdf files 1.4 M(203 pages) + 464K (94 pages). The results are: JoinPDF+PDFJoiner - 1.7 M with bookmarks CombinePDFs - 5.6 M no bookmarks PDFLab - 13.7 M no bookmarks On the other hand, the first two are not as flexible as PDFLab.
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 | Sep 1 2004 |
FABIEN CONUS That's a very good comment Michael. That is something I hadn't checked. Even though you can easily reduce the PDF size with Panther (via Colorsync). I'll try to add this to PDFLab.
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| Sep 1 2004 |
? Great idea but....I'm running 10.3.5 and all I et when I click 'Create Document" is an error message when it starts initializing.
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| Sep 1 2004 |
PROF AD It is quite rarely that we get a chance to download such an elegant, as well as professional, piece of software. It closes the Adobe Distiller gap for frustrated Mac users, and works smoothly under OSX 10.3.5. Above all, it is absolutely free. What a service to the Mac community!
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