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PDFpen 4.5.2 REDUCES MEMORY USAGE ALONG WITH FIXES AND IMPROVEMENTS

San Francisco, CA - November 11, 2009 - SmileOnMyMac has released
PDFpen 4.5.2, an update to its PDF editing software for Mac OS X. The
update reduces memory usage for OCR documents and includes various bug
fixes and improvements.

PDFpen 4.5.2 can be downloaded at
http://www.smileonmymac.com/PDFpen/download.html. The update is free
for registered users of PDFpen 4.x.

All the fixes in PDFpen 4.5.2 have also been made in PDFpenPro 4.5.2,
the Pro version that has the ability to create fillable PDF forms and
document Table of Contents, in addition to all the features of PDFpen.

PDFpen costs $49.95. PDFpenPro costs $99.95. Family Pack licenses,
which cover up to 5 computers in one household, are $74.95 for PDFpen
and $129.95 for PDFpenPro. Upgrades from earlier versions are $25.00,
and free to users who purchased after June 1, 2008. Upgrades from any
version of PDFpen to PDFpenPro 4.X are $50.

PDFpen and PDFpenPro require Mac OS X 10.4 or later. An Intel 1.8 Ghz
processor or above is recommended for OCR. Snow Leopard is required
for the direct scanning feature. Fully-functional demo versions are
available at

http://www.smileonmymac.com/PDFpen/download.html.

What's new in PDFpen 4.5.2:
- Reduces memory requirements for OCR
- Improved loading of newer encrypted PDFs
- CMYK images and images in cropped PDF scans no longer hide when
saved
- Make Transparent Image no longer adds unwanted borders
- Locked drawing tools no longer display selection when in use
- Miscellaneous improvements and bug fixes

PDFpen features:
- Add text, images and signatures to PDF
- Correct text in original PDF with editable text blocks
- Move, resize, copy and delete images in original PDF
- Perform Optical Character Recognition (OCR) on scanned documents
- Insert and remove pages; re-order pages in a PDF by drag & drop;
combine PDFs
- Fill out and save PDF forms
- Copy and paste rich text; retain fonts and formatting when copying
from PDFs
- Select and copy text across multiple columns
- Add (and print) notes and comments
- Markup documents with highlighting, underscoring and strikethrough
- Save frequently-used images, signatures, objects and text in the
Library
- Create cross-platform fillable PDF forms (requires PDFpenPro)
- Create and edit Table of Contents (requires PDFpenPro)
- Use with PageSender for a paperless fax turn-around solution
- Automate PDF manipulations with AppleScript
- Available in English, Japanese, German, Italian, and French

Requirements:
- Mac OS X 10.4 and later
- An Intel 1.8 Ghz processor or above is recommended for OCR.
- Direct scanning in PDFpen/PDFpenPro requires Mac OS X 10.6.

PDFpen Pricing:
$49.95
Family Pack: $74.95 (Up to 5 computers in one household)
Upgrade from earlier versions of PDFpen: $25
(Free upgrade for purchases made after June 1, 2008)

PDFpenPro Pricing:
$99.95
Family Pack: $129.95 (Up to 5 computers in one household)
Upgrade from earlier versions of PDFpenPro: $25
(Free upgrade for purchases made after June 1, 2008)

Upgrade from PDFpen to PDFpenPro 4.X: $50

Site licenses: PDFpen $999, PDFpenPro $1299
Site license terms: Single contact for support; single physical
address or company with fewer than 1,000 employees. Visit our site
license store: http://store.esellerate.net/somm/sitelicense

For more information about PDFpen, please visit:
http://www.smileonmymac.com/PDFpen/

Reviewer's Guide at:
http://www.smileonmymac.com/PDFpen/PDFpen4revguide.pdf

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ABOUT SMILEONMYMAC
SmileOnMyMac makes creative productivity software for Mac OS X, such
as PDFpen, the PDF editing software that won an Editors' Choice Award
from The Mac Observer; DiscLabel, the Macworld Eddy award-winning CD
label design program; PageSender, feature-rich fax software that also
received an Eddy; TextExpander, the typing shortcut tool that was
named a Mac|Life Editor's Choice, and BrowseBack, the visual web
history tool that won Best of Show at Macworld 2006. All SmileOnMyMac
products are available to download free at
http://www.smileonmymac.com.

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Jean MacDonald (+1-503-226-6346, PT)
Marketing/PR, SmileOnMyMac
Email: jean@smileonmymac.com

Greg Scown (+1-510-289-4000, PT)
Founder, SmileOnMyMac
E-mail: greg@smileonmymac.com

Philip Goward
Founder, SmileOnMyMac
E-mail: philip@smileonmymac.com

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