PDFClerk Pro 3.4 adds watermark support
Sintraworks has released the latest version of its PDF utility, PDFClerk Pro 3.4. The update features enhanced scriptability, improved automatic outline generation, inline editing of text annotations, support of watermarks and page labels, new shortcuts, and a redesigned user interface. The program can be used to create or edit PDF documents. Users can produce PDF files with text or graphics conte...
published on Sunday, the 19. October 2008, macintosh-news-network
Flexi 8 now available for Mac
SA International has released a Mac OS X port of Flexi 8, which features much of the same functionality of the Windows version. Flexi 8 is a sign designing software suite that lets users easily put together signs. The Mac version has received a slightly modified appearance to work in the Mac OS X environment. The application features customizable shortcut keys, direct PDF export for customer proof...
published on Thursday, the 4. September 2008, macintosh-news-network
10.5: View PDFs inline in Firefox 3
This hint is really just a link, but there have been several other hints dealing with PDF plug-ins for Mac browsers -- the Adobe plug-in only supports Safari) -- and this represents the first real solution for Firefox 3 I have seen. There is now a Firefox extension named firefox-mac-pdf, available for Firefox 3 under OS 10.5 that utilizes the built-in PDF support in OS X to display PDFs in-browser. In my testing, it appears to work very well. It doesn't have the nifty fading bezel that the Safari PDF viewer does, but it supports all the same keyboard shortcuts and you get the standard Mac OS PDF contextual menu when you control-click on a displayed PDF. [robg adds: This plug-in takes care of the only major complaint I had about Firefox; being able to view a PDF inline ins...
published on Wednesday, the 18. June 2008, macosxhints
Create keyboard shortcuts for the Print - PDF menu
Just stumbled upon this one ... some time ago, I was attempting to write an AppleScript to choose the Save As PDF... option in the Print dialog box of Safari. After searching all of the scripting sites, I worked out a solution, but it was a kludge that involved System Events and "click at" coordinates. I was playing around with the Keyboard and Mouse Preferences pane, and decided to try adding an Application keyboard shortcut for Safari. I just typed in Save as PDF... (no quotes, and type the ellipses by hitting option-semicolon) -- and it worked! I made the shortcut Command-Option-Control-P. So now to save a web page as a PDF, I can type Command-P and then Command-Option-Control-P to bring up the Save box to save the PDF. No more having to use the mouse/trackpad to select this. [robg adds: This works in both 10.5 for sure, and almost but not quite in 10.4 -- you can see the shortcuts in the menu, but they only work if you first activate the menu --...
published on Friday, the 26. October 2007, macosxhints
Quick Tip of the Week: Capturing Screen Shots
If you?ve ever wanted to grab a screen shot, you?ll definitely want to watch the video Quick Tip of the Week. It shows you the keyboard shortcuts you can use to capture a single window, the entire desktop, or a portion of it that you define. From creating PDFs in any application to using the built-in Dictionary to viewing multiple Inspectors in Pages, the Quick Tip of the Week shows you how to get more out of Mac OS X, iWork, Mail, iLife, and other Mac applications.
published on Monday, the 23. July 2007, apple-hot-news
Take screenshots in many formats via the keyboard
I've used a simple collection of apps called ScreenShotApps (30-Mar-2005 zip file on that site) and Spark to create hot keys for different types of screenshots -- PICT, PDF, JPEG, PNG, BMP, and TIFF are all a keyboard shortcut away. After expanding the ScreenShotApps bundle, store the bundled mini-programs on your hard drive, then use Spark to assign each to a keyboard shortcut. I've chosen to use Shift-Command and the number keys. So Shift-Command-1 gets a full screen PICT, -3 is a PDF, -5 is a JPEG, etc. I use -2, -4, and -6 for selected region screenshots in those same formats. As with the built-in screenshot tool, you can add the Space Bar for object capture, or Control to capture to clipboard.I've explained this all in more detail in this PDF.[robg adds...
published on Thursday, the 21. June 2007, macosxhints
10.4: How to drag-scroll oversize images in Preview
If you open a PDF in Preview, you can have the Tool Mode button in the toolbar. One of these tools is the Scroll Tool, which appears as a hand icon so you can grab the PDF and move it around. You can also switch between tools via the Tools menu and its related keyboard shortcuts. However, if you open an image in Preview, there is no Tool Mode button in the toolbar -- and all the tools in the Tools menu are unavailable, except for the Select Tool. So here's the hint: if you press the space bar, the Select Tool will switch to the Scroll Tool, which I tend to refer to as the hand tool, since that's what its icon is. You can then grab oversized images and 'scroll' them around via dragging. Presumably this keyboard shortcut is referenced from Photoshop, which has long used the space bar as a quick keyboard shortcut to the hand tool. Also, this tip is in reference t...
published on Monday, the 18. September 2006, macosxhints