PDF Magic

Mac App Store Web Page

I was 69p curious as to whether this can do anything extra to what cannot be done with the free-with-osx Preview application. From what I can see PDF Magic cannot, other than name split sections before saving rather that after saving. Preview can annotate PDFs which this application cannot.

To do these things with Preview, open a PDF in Preview and View > Sidebar > Show Sidebar then drag-and-drop to rearrange or drag out of the sidebar and onto the Desktop to split or drag into the sidebar to merge.

There is a growing number of these affiliated Chinese applications in the Mac App Store. All the same functions but with different icons, 'skins' and vastly varying prices. Apps like this one range from £0.69 to £69.99. They seems to exploit the fact that a lot of people are coming to Mac OS X who don't realise that this functionality with PDFs or even images is built into the applications that come with a Mac such as Preview or with a bit of effort with Automator. With the obfuscation of who is really behind the app it is difficult to steer clear of these affiliated apps but I will try.