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Watchlist | 22 Feb 2012 | Print Printer-Friendly Version of This Article | Comment (2)

PDFpen and PDFpenPro 5.7.2

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Preparing for the release of OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, Smile has released PDFpen 5.7.1 and PDFpenPro 5.7.1, both of which are updated with the Smile developer ID that is used by Mountain Lion’s Gatekeeper security feature (see “Gatekeeper Slams the Door on Mac Malware Epidemics,” 16 February 2012). The updates to the PDF manipulation tools also fix a gradual shift in color when using comments and an issue with the text tool when object stroke is set to none. A quick 5.7.2 release fixes a potential issue with saving, primarily on 10.6 Snow Leopard, and another issue with localization of page numbering. ($59.95/$99.95 new with a 20-percent discount for TidBITS members, free update, 47 MB)

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Comments about PDFpen and PDFpenPro 5.7.2

Vijay T  2012-02-29 02:35
version number typo in the article
cheers
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Adam Engst  An apple icon for a TidBITS Staffer 2012-02-29 07:52
I'm pretty sure everything is right - it's a tad confusing since we updated the 5.7.1 article to cover 5.7.2 as well, given that 5.7.2 was just a very quick bug fix update that didn't warrant it's own coverage.