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I'm always looking for a decent pdf application to replace the ancient Adobe Acrobat...
An integral OCR function would be nice as well...
I'm always looking for a decent ... simple video editor.
My MacAttorney user group is always interested in that too, because attorneys so often use PDF's.
The most popular alternative to Adobe Acrobat Pro is:
PDFpen ($80)
PDF Editor - PDFpen - Edit PDF Files | Smile Software
(There is a more expensive Pro version if you need to create PDF forms.)
However, there is a newcomer on the scene, and it has tremendous potential. I haven't tested it yet though. It is :
Kofax Power PDF for Mac ($129)
Kofax Power PDF Standard for Mac – secure, editable PDF software for MacOS - without subscription fees. | Kofax
What's most impressive about Kofax is that they have licensed the entire OmniPage Pro OCR engine. (PDFpen has licensed part of the same engine.) The OmniPage Pro OCR engine is by far the best OCR engine in existence. It can detect and preserve complex formatting like nothing else.
If you download and try the free demo of Kofax Power PDF, please let us know what you think!
Guess I will have to bite the bullet and upgrade - probably to Mojave to be able to keep any 32-bit apps at least for the time being.
Just a quick tip....if your Mac has an internal rotating disk hard drive, you may want to stop at High Sierra and go no higher. Mojave or Catalina will convert your internal RDHD to APFS, and there is a noticeable reduction in performance with certain actions that comes with that. APFS is optimized for SSD's, and it is less than optimal for RDHD's.
Just a quick tip....if your Mac has an internal rotating disk hard drive, you may want to stop at High Sierra and go no higher.
For now I had installed Mojave on an external spinner drive to do a bit of testing that way (before I read about the APFS concerns), but so far I had not noticed the reduction in performance that supposedly happens.
Maybe I haven't used Mojave enough yet.
My understanding is that Mojave doesn't automatically convert external hard drives to APFS.
My understanding is that Mojave doesn't automatically convert external hard drives to APFS.
withFor now I had installed Mojave on an external spinner drive to do a bit of testing that way (before I read about the APFS concerns), but so far I had not noticed the reduction in performance that supposedly happens.
Maybe I haven't used Mojave enough yet.
My understanding is that Mojave doesn't automatically convert external hard drives to APFS.
Not automatically, you commanded it with the installation. I know you said that earlier, but my observation is that installing Mojave on an external drive triggers the formatting. I guess it depends on what the definition of "automatic" is.All that leads me to believe the Mojave partion was converted to APFS automatically.
All that leads me to believe the Mojave partion was converted to APFS automatically.