The new version of the Proview PDF Editor for Mac OS X is now available for download. The update is free for existing users - your license key will still work - just download and install from the website.
New features include Visual Crop and the setting of crop and trim boxes on individual pages. It’s also about twice as fast as before.
A new version of our PDF Editor for the Mac will be launched next week. New features include Visual Crop and the setting of crop and trim boxes on individual pages. It’s also about twice as fast as before.
It’s not too late to join the beta program - just sign up with MacDeveloper.net. Proview 1.2 will be a free upgrade for existing users.
You can get the Proview PDF Editor at 25% off for the next 16 days at mupromo.com.
We’ve started work on the next release of Proview with an emphasis on making the existing functionality easier to use (visual selection for cropping, for example). Release expected in the Autumn.
We’re well into the first testing cycle for Proview now. We’re using MacDeveloper, which automates the process somewhat, and has a group of about 8000 people signed up for testing, giving them discounts or free copies of the software when they’ve submitted enough acceptable bug reports to the ticketing system.
MacDeveloper runs with its own ticketing system, but the data can be exported to CSV. Haven’t worked out how to get it into bugzilla yet, though.
I’m happy with how few crash/freeze bugs have been reported, and the complaints about the interface seem to crystallize around a couple of issues - so we’ll re-jig it before the next release.
Here and here are a couple of articles on contemporary beta testing.