You can always copy the selected text and page it into an app that allows you to compose and edit text, such as TextEdit, Pages, Word, etc. I show one technique here: Printing and Sharing Portions Of a Document. But printing a select inside a page is trickier. So you can certainly choose to print only one page, or a group of pages. PDF files are formatted pages that can be thought of as printed pages still in electronic form. Result: equally useless as PDF Pen.Īs a simple summary I suggest you spend the $129 for PDF Studio PRO from Qoppa.What type of document are you looking at? Preview can open many different types of files. For the record: PDF Pen = Nuance PDF Converter for Mac. Now you don't have to wonder, why PDF Pen is using the OCR engine of Nuance :-). As soon as I had the tool installed, I had to realise, that it was nothing else than PDF Pen under a different hood. Unfortunately there is no trial version available, but the refunding worked fine without problems. Nuance PDF Coneverter for Mac: I bougth this tool as it offers a redaction functionality. My contact with the support never brought a solution so far over a time of several weeks. all scanned files) PDF Pen has big problems and messes up your file so it gets irreversibly unusable. Therefore the functionality is limited to a files who are by chance compatible with this tool. Be careful about this tool: it messes up your PDFs completely as you redact. PDF Pen: PDF Pen seems to be a nice tool and it offers a nice reaction functionality - seems to at least. I tried several other possibilities, which all don't work properly:Īpple Preview: this application allows to visually hide parts of a pdf behind a box, but it is always possible to remove the box or copy / paste the text behind as the sensitive information is NOT removed from the file! Note that you need the PRO version, as the standard version lacks the ability of redaction. It is a solid part of software and according to my extensive tests the only tool that is really able to redact safely PDF files. PDF Studio PRO from Qoppa ( ): This tool really gives you virtually the whole functionality of Acrobat Pro.It took me rather long time to find a real good alternative to Acrobat Pro: As Acrobat Pro CD is much to expensive for me as a private non-profit user, I was looking for an alternativ. The subject of redation of PDF files seems to be a difficult subject concerning programming.

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