Have you ever had to fill out and sign a PDF-based form? Or change the date on a PDF-based flyer? Comment on a document sent around your workplace as a PDF file? Scan a document to PDF and OCR the text? Smile’s PDFpen 5 can perform these and many other PDF manipulations more easily than Adobe Acrobat, and at a fraction of the price. With clarity and humor, Take Control of PDFpen 5 explains precisely what you can do with PDFs using PDFpen and its big brother, PDFpenPro.

After a whirlwind history and overview of PDF, you'll take a tour through PDFpen’s tools and navigation. With those basics taken care of, you’ll learn how to:

* Scan a document to PDF and make the text editable with OCR.
* Combine pages from multiple files into a single PDF.
* Turn a Web site into a multi-page PDF.
* Add or remove pages from a PDF.
* Add a handwritten signature to a PDF.
* Add page and URL links to a PDF.
* Make a clickable table of contents for a PDF.
* Use professional editing marks on a PDF.
* Edit text within a PDF that was received in email.
* Leave comments on a PDF document.
* Remove sensitive or confidential text from a PDF.
* Enhance the images in a PDF.
* Fill out a PDF-based form.
* Print just form entries on a pre-printed form.
* Create an interactive PDF-based form that can collect data and send it to you via email or the Web.

An appendix describes the many useful AppleScripts that ship with PDFpen.