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Month: March 2019

PDF without Adobe: 16 Reading PDF source

How you can tell whether a PDF file is likely to contain orphaned content and other problems, as available now in Podofyllin.

March 9, 2019 Macs, Technology

A Peculiar Beauty: the paintings of Ker-Xavier Roussel 2

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His later pastels are particularly sublime, with high chroma and mythical stories, include a drunken man being loaded onto a donkey.

March 8, 2019 General, Life, Painting

PDF without Adobe: 15 macOS can sanitize your PDFs

When I opened a PDF to inspect its source, the file was quite different to that seen in BBEdit. Was my file system broken?

March 8, 2019 General, Language, Macs, Technology

A Peculiar Beauty: the paintings of Ker-Xavier Roussel 1

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A founder member of the Nabis, and close friend of Pierre Bonnard, he developed a unique high chroma style and a taste for mythical landscapes.

March 7, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Viewing two or more pages at once in a PDF document

Would you like to have two or more windows open on the same document, so you can check notes or references while reading? Now you can, for PDFs.

March 7, 2019 General, Language, Macs, Technology

The Divine Comedy: Inferno 1 Into Hell

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In which Dante is terrified by three wild animals and meets the ghost of Virgil. Together they make their way to the gates of Hell.

March 6, 2019 General, Life, Painting

PDF without Adobe: 14 PDF is inherently not secure

PDF is an invaluable, universal document format which is fundamentally flawed, allowing it to leak unintended content and worse. Here’s how this happens.

March 6, 2019 General, Language, Macs, Technology

More Than Portraits: the paintings of Diego Velazquez 7 Late Portraits and Myths

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After painting portraits of the Pope during his second visit to Italy, he returns to paint the king’s niece and new bride, Las Meninas, and his last myth.

March 5, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Clipping files: copying through the Finder

All about textClipping and pictClipping files: what they are, and how to access the data within them.

March 5, 2019 Macs, Technology

Painting Goethe’s Faust: 9 The story of Gretchen by Ary Scheffer & James Tissot

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Two superb series of paintings of scenes from Goethe’s Faust Part One, by Ary Scheffer and James Tissot.

March 4, 2019 General, Life, Painting

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