The Books app demonstrates how stultified is the approach to text on computers. It’s carefully engineered to work like a book, not to bring any new powers to text or reading.
Category Archive: Language
All I wanted was a black and yellow chequered flag to signify quarantine. I thought the emoji was even better – a yellow reminder ribbon. How wrong I was.
Tables of Contents, Outline, Bookmarks: what’s the difference, and how portable are they in PDF?
Now saves windows sizes and positions, and settings for display of thumbnails and raw PDF source.
I have now returned this blog’s settings to normal again, which enables you to make comments to all […]
I’m afraid that once again this blog is receiving a torrent of hundreds of attempts to post comment […]
How to reveal incorrectly redacted content in a PDF document, and discover previous versions of that document inside its file.
When I opened a PDF to inspect its source, the file was quite different to that seen in BBEdit. Was my file system broken?
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.
PDF is an invaluable, universal document format which is fundamentally flawed, allowing it to leak unintended content and worse. Here’s how this happens.
