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Ask TUAW: Return to open, messed up Mighty Mouse, PDF alternatives, Boot Camp expansion, and more

It's time once again for Ask TUAW! For this round we take questions about cleaning a malfunctioning Mighty Mouse, opening files and applications with the return key, expanding a Boot Camp partition, finding alternatives to Adobe Acrobat, caring for your notebook battery, and more

As always, your suggestions are welcome. Questions for next week should be left in the comments. When asking a question please include which machine you're running and which version of Mac OS X (we'll assume you're running Leopard on an Intel Mac if you don't specify). And now, on to the questions!

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PDFpen 4 adds OCR and Word importing

SmileOnMyMac has released a major update to PDFpen, their PDF editing software which we examined at a while back. PDFpen allows you to edit PDFs to fill out forms (e.g. scans of existing forms), mark-up documents, etc. The biggest new feature for version 4 is the inclusion of basic OCR functionality that will turn a scanned document into editable text. In addition there is support for new file formats including importing Microsoft Word documents.

PDFpen comes in two versions, a basic version for editing PDFs and a pro version that also allows you to create editable forms (i.e. forms that can be filled out by users with a PDF reader like Acrobat or Preview). PDFpen is $49.95 (or $99.95 for the pro version). Upgrades for to version 4 from previous version are $25. Demos for both standard and pro are available for download.

Filed under: Features, How-tos, Tips and tricks, Troubleshooting, Ask TUAW

Ask TUAW: Editing PDFs, Selecting Text, Medical Terms and More

It's Wednesday and that means it's time for Ask TUAW! Our queries from last week included questions about deleting pages from a PDF, triple-clicking to select a sentence, adding medical terms to OS X's spell checking dictionary and more. Remember, we need your questions to keep Ask TUAW going strong! So please feel free to post new questions in the comments of this post, or submit them via our tip form. As always, please add your own comments or responses to our answers. And now to this week's answers...

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