PDFClerk

PDFClerk Publisher's Description:
PDFClerk is your personal assistant for PDF Documents. It allows you, among other things, to join multiple PDF documents together, rearrange the page order, delete individual pages, impose multiple pages onto a sheet of paper and rotate pages on imposed sheets, making it easy to create your own books, booklets and magazines. You can print out your manuals, reports, essays, articles, etc., in a convenient and economic way. You can create books for languages that read from right to left like Arabic, Chinese and Hebrew. Extended page and imposition control, and the ability to overlay graphics and text objects and print crop, bleed and registration marks as well as color/grayscale bars and print pages in mirror image. Explode documents into smaller single or multiple page documents. Split documents into even and odd pages. Define or resize existing PDF display boxes (crop, bleed, trim, art). Create and modify hyperlinks, markup pages with drawing primitives. Interleave documents.

What's new in this version:

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.