Prettier Icons: Yosemite has cleaner and clearer icons along the bottom of a Mac screen, including the apps that usually value function over beauty.
And more selfishly I hope this leads to an even better app.The latest version of Mac OS X Yosemite 10.10.5 Free Download adds some noticeable enhancements, improvements, and new features which you′ll experience after Mac OS X Yosemite 10.10.5 DMG Free Download:
I don’t normally post long reviews, but I really think PDF Nomad deserves more exposure. More generally, I’m excited to see an efficient PDF editing app that gets the basics right (speed and stability), has lots of features and is in very active development. Ideally, I’d like the OCR function to be faster, and to use less RAM, and to have some example Applescripts provided for batch processing documents, but I can’t find much to fault. PDF Nomad normally $50, but is $25 till the end of June 1/2 the price of Prizmo (the slick scanning app that was in the last Macupdate bundle), 1/4 the price of PDFpenPro, 1/12 of the absurd Adobe Acrobat Pro. It’s also excellent value: the latest version 2.0 adds OCR, which though I rarely use (I normally get documents already scanned off colleagues), is good to have and normally entails a much more expensive app. You can edit PDF metadata very easily, which is rare, and again, very helpful for academic researchers. It’s also the only app I’ve found that allows splitting pages vertically en masse very useful when you have book scans consisting of double pages. Much faster to perform editing (rotating, deskewing, saving) functions than the above apps, actually. Most importantly, its very stable – can’t remember it ever crashing on me – and fast. The UI is attractive and carefully well thought out, and the dev is friendly and responsive to feature requests. PDF Nomad, on the other hand, works great. PDF PenPro has significant stability problems.
Acrobat Pro is hopeless: clunky, slow to scroll and with a counterintuitive non-standard UI. I wanted one PDF app that could do all the above: I tried Adobe Acrobat Pro and PDF PenPro. Skim is great, but offers no PDF editing features. Post-Snow Leopard, Preview has been a buggy, constantly crashing mess, so its useless even for reading and annotating. I also read and annotate lots of journal articles. I frequently need to split and crop PDFs of scanned books, as well as adding outlines (permanent Bookmarks) to break them up into easily navigable chapters.
Merge pages side-by-side or on top of each other.Split documents into even/odd pages, or explode documents into single-page PDFs or even into individual chapters.
Export individual pages as bitmaps (JPG, PNG, etc.) or create spoken audio files from the document's text.Easily resize whole documents to a different page size with a single command, or resize individual pages with drag-and-drop, shifting page contents as needed.Create searchable pages or new pages with the recognized text. Perform OCR on any document (whether scanned or not) to extract its textual contents. Scan documents directly from your scanner into PDF Nomad.It provides often used operations like merging multiple documents, as well as more exotic ones like exporting the document's text as a spoken sound file. It features a multitude of ways to take your PDF documents from one place to the next, through an easy-to-use interface. PDF Nomad is a modern, carefully styled PDF editor, built from the ground up for OS X 10.7 and later.