Year: 2010

PDFPen for Mac OS X adds ability to redact or replace text

Posted by | Sep 9, 2010 | , |

SmileOnMyMac has updated PDFPen (http://www.smileonmymac.com/PDFpen/download.html), its PDF editing and form-filling tool for Mac OS X, to version 5.0. The upgrade includes the ability to redact or replace text, including OCR text.

Users can also initiate search and replace and search and redact functions to remove multiple instances of sensitive information. Additionally, PDFpenPro 5.0 can now convert websites and other HTML documents into PDFs, complete with hyperlinks.

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PDF2ID 3.0 ready for InDesign CS5

Posted by | Sep 9, 2010 | , |

Recosoft Corp. (http://www.recosoft.com) is shipping PDF2ID Standard/Professional 3.0, an upgrade of the PDF-to-InDesign conversion tool for Mac and Windows platforms. PDF2ID converts PDF files to native InDesign documents.

Version 3.0 incorporates over 150 new features and enhancements and has been designed to operate with Adobe InDesign CS3/CS4/CS5. What’s more, PDF2ID 3.0 enables the conversion of variable page size PDFs to variable page size InDesign documents and contains new options to control how graphics objects are processed.

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New BLAST: Modern Urban Production Tools announced

New BLAST: Modern Urban Production Tools announced

Posted by | Sep 9, 2010 | , |

Renegade Media Group (http://www.renegademediagroup.com/), a sample library company founded by producers Josh Harris and Bobbybass, has announced BLAST: Modern Urban Production Tools Vol. 1 and 2, two new sample libraries of kits, sounds, and loops.

BLAST Vol. 1 contains more than 500 Hip Hop, R-n-B, Southern, Crunk, and Tribal sounds that includes full construction kits, single drum shots, and keyboard loop idea starters and building blocks. This library totals more than 4GB of content.

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Parallels Desktop 6 for Mac to ship Sept. 14

Parallels Desktop 6 for Mac to ship Sept. 14

Posted by | Sep 9, 2010 | , |

Parallels (http://www.parallels.com) has announced the Sept. 14 availability of Parallels Desktop 6 for Mac, the latest version of the software for running Windows and Mac applications side-by-side on a Mac without rebooting. The new version has more than 80 new and enhanced features, says Serguei Beloussov, chairman and CEO of Parallels.

He says 3D graphics run nearly 40% better than before. Boot time for Windows is 41% faster than before, and Parallels Desktop 6 also boosts speed for working with files on USB drives, networks and in shared folders, says Beloussov.

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