Do you need to edit PDF files on your Mac? Previously, I’ve talked about Preview’s built-in editing features. If these features aren’t adequate for your needs most people think they need to get Adobe Acrobat, which currently costs $13-$15 per month with an annual subscription, but I prefer to use PDFPen which has a one-time cost of $75 (or $125 if you buy PDFPen Pro). 

PDFPen Pro has allowed me to do anything I’ve ever needed to do to a PDF, including the following tasks:

• re-arrange pages
• add ore remove pages
• merge PDFs
• make a PDF searchable using OCR
• password protect a PDF and control whether others can edit, annotate or print the pdf
• create PDF forms

To learn everything that PDF Pen can do, check out the PDFPen online manual.

You can also watch some PDFPen video tutorials.

[Note August 2024:  PDFPen has been purchased by a company called Nitro and the application is now named Nitro.]