PDFify can now be updated to the latest version 4.0. Many PDFify users are looking forward to this major version update with improvements and new functions.
PDF/A Support
Many PDFify users keep electronic documents that they need to archive for the long term.
PDF/A - Portable Document Format Archivable - enables standardized long-term archiving of documents. As of macOS 11, PDFify now offers to save the document as PDF/A-2u by default in the settings.
The “classic” PDF, which supports the embedding of links, graphics, audio and video files as well as optional encryption, is of course retained in PDFify.
Finder Extensions / Quick Actions
To quickly convert several existing PDFs “in batch” to PDF/A, the quick actions in the Finder Extension can be supplemented with “Convert to PDF/A”.
There is also a new Finder extension for converting documents into a PDF with PDF/A format. However, the existing extensions also generate PDF/A if the option has been set in the settings.
Other file formats
Not only PDF can be optimized using the Finder Extensions, but also documents in various formats can be converted directly to PDF:
- Image files and scans such as JPG, PNG, TIF or GIF
- HTML files
- Emails
Faster display of PDFs on the web
Furthermore, you can now also select the linearized PDF, which is optimized for fast display on the Internet. The first page is then already displayed during the download, while the following pages are still being loaded.
Standardized maximum page size
PDFify now allows you to limit the maximum page size so that you do not end up with unsightly huge pages. By default, the page size is set to DIN A4 with the update. In the settings, you can adjust the value to the original size or US letter.
Sequence during import
Sometimes the individual pages of a document are available as separate image files. In the new version of PDFify, these are now reliably imported in the sort order familiar from the Apple Finder. This allows individual scans of pages to be quickly merged into one PDF document.
