PDFClerk
- Version 3.2 | Release Date: 2008-07-10 | Download
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- Version 3.1 | Release Date: 2008-05-21 | Download
This maintenance release contains the following changes:
New: Added extra printing options to the print panel allowing greater control over page rotation and page scaling.
Fixed: Fixed an issue with sheet orientation when printing impositions.
Fixed: Adressed a number of stability and functionality issues in the media browser.- Version 3.0 | Release Date: 2008-04-25 | Download
PDFClerk Pro 3.0, the sequel to the PDFClerk 2.x series was written from the ground up to take advantage of Mac OS X 10.5's many improvements. It is both more efficient and more powerful, adding many new features to its repertoire, and improving on features it already performed well. These are the main new features:
New: PDF outlines (a.k.a. Boomarks): Create and edit outline items manually or automatically.
New: PDF annotations: Mark up and collaborate on documents with ease.
New: PDF forms: Create and edit interactive forms.
New: PDF document encryption.
New: Selectable and searchable document text.
New: Thumbnail view for light-table style views of your documents.
New: PDFClerk files can be exchanged without losing custom layouts.
New: More powerful page and imposition layout features: incl. even/odd sheet margins and resizing media boxes.
New: Speech: Have selected text or whole documents read back to you or saved to an audio file.
New: Applescript: Automate repetitive tasks.
New: Font info: the fonts used in selected text.
New: Use the remote control to browse documents and/or present them fullscreen.
New: More new features and many interface improvements.PDFClerk Pro 3.0 requires Mac OS X 10.5.0 "Leopard" or later systems. It wil not run on earlier systems.
- Version 2.7 | Release Date: 2007-06-03 | Download
- New: Freehand drawing tool.
- New: Optional arrows and other end points for line objects.
- New: Triangle now turned into a proper polygon tool: create regular polygons with an arbitrary number of sides.
- New: Ability to change the source name of selected pages.
- New: Document navigation through Apple Remote.
- New: Duplicate command.
- Changed: Pages no longer forcibly create a white fill when generating a PDF document. So, if an original PDF page is transparent and it's color has not been adjusted in PDFClerk then it will remain transparent in the final PDF document produced by PDFClerk.
- Fixed: Page labels now draw correctly again when set to appear at top (bug introduced in PDFClerk 2.5).
- Fixed: Some undo related glitches.
- Fixed: No longer draws selection marks if there are selected objects while exporting to graphics file.
- Fixed: Copied text boxes now paste correctly again.
- Fixed: Glitch that could occur when creating text boxes.
- Version 2.6 | Release Date: 2007-04-22 | Download
This is a feature upgrade to PDFClerk. The following are the changes over version 2.5:
- New: Added option to export PDFClerk document pages as graphics files.
- New: Added Automatic/Manual option to trim and bleed marks, greatly enhancing the scope of their usability.
- New: Streamlined updating powered by Sparkle.
- New: Added Application Preference to choose between using File Name or PDF Title property as the source name in the page list.
- New: Added toolbar button for exporting as a single PDF document.
- New: Added ⌘= as alternate to ⌘+ for zooming in.
- Changed: Revamped About Box.
- Changed: Updated Help File.
- Changed: Changed slot size terminology “First Page Size (Dynamic)†to “First Page Size (Scaling)†to better represent what it does.
- Changed: It is now possible to type positive fractional values that are smaller than 1 into text boxes omitting the leading 0 (e.g. “.25").
- Changed: New appearance of the demo mode watermark.
- Fixed: Now prints correctly when displaying the document in non-continuous mode.
- Fixed: Now remembers imposition mode when opening a PDFClerk file that was saved with the last imposition in the list of impositions.
- Fixed: The sheet size popup button in the Document Settings dialog would not correctly reflect the “Automatic†setting.
- Fixed: Sheet size was not remembered in between sessions of the same document.
- Fixed: Text boxes that have been resized manually no longer forget that fact when saving and opening a PDFClerk file.
- Fixed: A bug introduced in 2.5 that swapped the manual top/bottom display box margins when set in imposition templates. (This fixes templates, which had these boxes explicitly in v2.4 or earlier, not those last used with v2.5, in which case they have to be manually adjusted.)
- Fixed: A bug introduced in PDFClerk 2.5 that could cause text and graphics objects on pages to be misplaced when re-opening a previously saved file.
- Fixed: Bleed and trim marks are now drawn correctly on rotated pages.
- Fixed: A bug, introduced in v2.5, that could occasionally result in a crash when closing a document window.
- Fixed: It is no longer possible to move an object backwards behind the base layer of the page.
- Fixed: The height and width for a fixed slot size in an imposition template can no longer be set to 0.
- Version 2.5 | Release Date: 2007-04-03 | Download
This is a feature upgrade to PDFClerk. The following are the changes over version 2.4:
- New: Hyperlinks in imported PDF files can now be preserved (this option has to be turned on explicitly).
- New: Hyperlinks can be created, edited and tested.
- New: Added basic drawing tools: Markup documents with rich rectangles, ovals, triangles and lines.
- New: PDF, Image and text objects can now have borders and be shaded with a fill color.
- New: When resizing pages you can now specify how to realign their contents.
- New: Text boxes now accept dragged and pasted graphics.
- New: "Select Alternating Pages" option in list of pages contextual menu.
- New: "Reverse Selected Pages" option in list of pages contextual menu.
- New: "Interleave…" option in File menu. (Interleave PDF documents, including non-standard interleaves)
- New: Added Picas to measurement units.
- New: Sheet size for imposed modes can now be changed in the Document Settings Dialog.
- New: PDFClerk now defaults to a user´s preferred measurements units (US = Inches, Metric = Millimeters).
- New: Pressing escape while a PDF document is being imported will stop importing further pages.
- New: Forward delete can now be used for deleting objects (in addition to the backspace key).
- New: Added imposition template option "First Page Size (Fixed)". This mode will never scale slots in the layout.
- New: Holding down the command key when opening a PDF doc will force the file name (instead of the Title property of the PDF doc) as the Source Name.
- Changed: Revamped and improved inspector panel.
- Changed: Metric input fields now only allow valid input.
- Changed: Renamed imposition template option for slot size "First Page Size" to "First Page Size (Dynamic)".
- Changed: Scrolling the content view now changes the currently selected page in the page list when appropriate.
- Changed: Zooming in and out is now centered on the visible area.
- Changed: All coordinates are now based with 0,0 as the bottom left of the page.
- Changed: Manually resizing a text box now fixes the vertical size as well as the horizontal.
- Changed: More efficient opening and insertion of large PDF documents (while keeping the UI responsive).
- Changed: After changing templates in the imposition editor PDFClerk will now retain the active imposition mode when returning to the document.
- Fixed: When adding a blank page it is now sized according to document settings, rather than set to 600pt x 800pt.
- Fixed: Page Label settings are now saved and restored.
- Fixed: A problem when undoing/redoing changes to page sizing mode.
- Fixed: A bug where a rotated image object could cause other objects to also draw rotated.
- Fixed: Some text box editing related glitches.
- Fixed: Some minor UI glitches.
- Fixed: Display boxes are no longer printed when they are visible on screen.
- Fixed: Selecting all pages: now currently selected page doesn't change on selecting all.
- Fixed: Improvements to resizing of rotated objects.
- Fixed: Importing text based documents no longer defaults to boxes drawn around the contents.
- Fixed: Importing text based documents now respects the document's margins.
- Fixed: When reordering pages in the page list the contents no longer jump to the first page.
- Fixed: Miscellaneous improvements over issues in the 2.5 betas.
- Version 2.3.1 | Release Date: 2006-12-20 | Download
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- Version 2.0.1 | Release Date: not specified | Download
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