Pixelmator Pro 3.5.8 Adds Text Editing Support for PDF

With Pixelmator Pro 3.5.8 update, the image editing application comes with a few important additions as well as text editing support for PDF, thanks to the latest update.

What’s New in Pixelmator Pro 3.5.8

Pixelmator had recently added support for vector PDFs, allowing users to import images, shapes, and text elements from the portable document format as separate layers.

With the new release, this support has been expanded so that users can edit imported text as regular text layers. Thus, existing text in PDFs can be more easily modified, formatted and styled using Pixelmator Pro tools.

Here’s what the developers explain: “Typically, text in PDF documents cannot be edited directly. Instead, they are stored as vector shapes to ensure that documents appear consistent across various platforms and applications. To make text re-editable, Pixelmator Pro extracts various embedded data from the original PDF, allowing it to recover the original text, fonts, and formatting. “Even if some of these elements are missing—for example, if the original font isn’t installed on your Mac—you can still import the text, choose a different font, and continue with your edits.”

New text editing capabilities also mean users can seamlessly export Keynote and Pages projects and continue editing them in Pixelmator Pro. All text will remain fully editable with the original fonts, including the SF Pro font used in the Apple ecosystem.

The Style tool that comes with the update has been improved to simplify creating custom outlines around text layers. Users now have the option to add strokes inside or outside text, choose from a variety of stroke ends and corners, and also add dashed strokes.

The update also includes 12 new templates for web, social media and more. All templates include a range of alternative color palettes to tailor the theme to specific requirements.

While the new update for Pixelmator Pro, released on the Mac App Store, is free for existing users, new customers have to purchase the application by paying 1,999.99 TL.