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Recognizing that not everybody buys their software via online download, we decided to take the plunge into retail this year with PDFpen. We worked hard with our wonderful designers at Active Media Group to create a package design that would be fabulous and informative at the same time. The incredible folks at Agilaire Print and Packaging took us through the process of making that package a reality, and went the extra mile to help us neophytes. Now PDFpen is distributed by Dr. Bott and has made its way to the shelves of an Apple Store near you!

Here’s Philip at the Apple Store in San Francisco. Send us a photo of PDFpen in your Apple Store–if we post it on the blog, we’ll give you a free SmileOnMyMac download product of your choice.

Thanks to everyone who helped us make this idea into reality!

We got this email from BJ Strass, the publisher of Scooter Rider:

I finally am getting around to letting you know how much PDFpen has helped me out. It has saved me countless hours of reworking and reformatting prior PDFs. I produce a small magazine and after 4 years we decided to offer full year Journals — all the issues for each year in a formatted paperback book available through Lulu.com.

The problem was that over the years we used 3 types of software in the layout, different image formats, and some variation in size format. I tried no less than 6 pieces of software and many, many methods and it began to look like we were either going to abandon the project, due to time, or redo all layout from scratch, then I stumbled on PDFpen. Rather than having to redo everything we did a ‘tune-up’ on each issue in its relative layout software, printed each issue as a PDF, then combined, resized and arranged the entire year in PDFpen. It was great! I give the gang at SmileOnMyMac my grateful appreciation. If you are interested you can see the store at www.lulu.com/bj1056

Thanks again for making a great piece of very useful software, that like a Mac, it just works well.

Our thanks go to BJ for sharing his PDFpen experience–and a copy of TextExpander too! Send your user tips to jean@smileonmymac.com; if we post your tip, you’ll get a complimentary copy of any of our products.

I was in New York last week, working, catching up with friends, taking in the culture (Bob Dylan exhibit at the Morgan, Steve Reich at Carnegie Hall), and a moment of pure geek tourism: visiting the Apple Store on Fifth Avenue.

The Apple logo was red in honor of the Project (RED) iPod. The entrance is very groovy, with the whole underground thing. You can take a cylindrical glass elevator car or a glass spiral staircase down to the main floor. My friend Barbara bought an iPod case. I didn’t buy anything. (With no sales tax in my home state, so I almost never buy something in NYC I can get in Portland…) Barbara gave me her Apple Store 5th Avenue bag. That’s what good friends are for. (They’re also for snapping really touristy photos of you on busy streets without complaining.)

The depressing part of the visit was across the street: The Plaza Hotel under scaffolding, destined to metamorphose into “elegant private residences”. Ugh. As far as I’m concerned, the only one who should be allowed to actually live at the Plaza is Eloise, of course.