Office pack licenses, which cover up to five users in an office, are $179.95 for PDFpen and $279.95 for PDFpenPro. Family pack licenses, which cover up to five computers in one household, are $74.95 for PDFpen and $119.95 for PDFpenPro.

PDFpen retails for US$59.95, and PDFpenPro for $99.95. (Apple restricts iCloud access to applications purchased via the Mac App Store.) Users who wish to use iCloud must purchase PDFpen 6 from the Mac App Store. PDFpen 6.1.3 works with PDFpen for iPad and PDFpen for iPhone, allowing editing across devices when used with iCloud or Dropbox storage. The changes in PDFpen 6.1.3 have also been made in PDFpenPro 6.1.3, the pro version that can also convert websites into PDFs, automatically create fillable PDF forms, and construct document table of contents. The update adds Text-to-Speech support and improves support for VoiceOver and Accessibility in several areas. Smile ( ) has rolled out PDFpen 6.1.3, an update to its all-purpose PDF editing tool for OS X. Educational Institution and Student Discounts.say -v Alex -o 'audiofile.aiff' -f 'textfile.rtf' to read a textfile in Alex's voice direct to an audiofile. NOTE***: If you want to combine all the options together you could do something like this. Replace 'audiofile.aiff' with the audio filename you would like created.

You can use the full file path to read a text file from a different location.įinally to have your Mac read straight into an audio file type say -v Alex -o 'audiofile.aiff' 'read this' and press Enter. Replace textfile.rtf with the filename of a plain text file you have placed on your desktop. To have your Mac read from a text file type say -v Alex -f 'textfile.rtf' and press Enter. You can replace Kathy with any of the Mac voices (ie Alex, Bruce, Fred, Kathy, Vicki, Victoria). To have your Mac read in a different voice type say -v Kathy 'read this' then press Enter. You can replace the text in quotes with your own. To have your Mac read a string aloud type say 'read this' then press Enter. Type cd ~/Desktop at the command prompt then press Enter. Launch the Terminal application from the Applications:Utilities folder. Using Terminal you can have your Mac read text aloud or directly into an audio file for playback later. These are instructions on how to create audio files using the Mac OS X Text to Speech feature.

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