PDFpen tip: Double-click the Text Tool When Filling Out Forms
Here’s a tip from Jean in Portland, Oregon: (yeah, that’s actually me…)
If you are filling out a form using PDFpen’s Text tool, you can do it a lot faster if you double-click the Text tool before starting. By default, the Text tool reverts to the Select tool after each use. Double-clicking overrides this behavior. The Text tool will stay active and you’ll be able to fill out the whole form without switching back and forth between tools.
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March 21st, 2007 at 3:36 am
The same is useful, or even essential with the scribble tool. You can then use a tablet to write directly into a PDF with your handwriting. The only annoying thing (next to the speed of acceptance of strokes sometimes) are the selection boxes around newly created strokes. With the tablet those don’t make sense, just clutter your handwriting. Anyway, with this double click trick it’s more or less usable. @Developers: try out PDF Annotator in Windows with a Tablet to get an idea how PDFpen should work.
March 21st, 2007 at 1:17 pm
Stefan — thanks for the suggestion; improved tablet performance is on the boards for future PDFpen development.