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PDF without Adobe: 11 PDFpenPro 10

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For less than the cost of a year of Adobe Acrobat Pro DC, this is the first choice for anyone who needs more powerful editing tools.

February 22, 2019 General, Language, Macs, Technology

PDF without Adobe: 10 PDF Expert

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For around half the cost of a year of Adobe Acrobat Pro DC, you can have a superb PDF reader with good general annotation and editing tools.

February 21, 2019 General, Language, Macs, Technology

PDF without Adobe: 8 Security, integrity and forensics

Can you get malware in PDF? How far can you trust a PDF, or could it be a forgery? How to sign PDFs, and what data may remain hidden inside them.

February 19, 2019 General, Language, Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Problems of PDF

Why don’t some PDFs display properly outside Adobe software? Will PDFs ever become more accessible? And what to do when they get damaged?

February 17, 2019 General, Language, Macs, Technology

PDF without Adobe: 6 Quartz and Preview

A close look at just what macOS PDF support and Preview can do well, including a hidden file conversion feature.

February 16, 2019 General, Language, Macs, Technology

PDF without Adobe: 2 Why PDF is so odd

A single character text can result in a PDF file with 160 lines. Mojave still generates PDF according to the 1999 standard. And why extracted text is all over the place.

February 13, 2019 General, Language, Macs, Technology

PDF without Adobe: 1 At the heart of macOS

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I’ve been using PDFs for over 25 years, and have finally abandoned using Adobe’s software. Here’s a little history, and the first version of a new free PDF browser.

February 12, 2019 General, Language, Macs, Technology

Comments now fully enabled

I have now enabled commenting again on all articles posted here, including those over 40 days old. Please […]

February 3, 2019 General, Language, Life, Macs, Painting, Technology

Comments on older articles disabled

Due to a sudden torrent of comment spam, I have had to block adding comments to articles older […]

January 31, 2019 General, Language, Life, Macs, Painting, Technology, xattr

The Decameron: The hundred and first story

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Buried in the introduction to day 4, this became La Fontaine’s fable of Brother Philippe’s Geese, was painted by Boucher and others, entered French idiom, and was alluded to by a vanished painting by Gauguin.

January 4, 2019 General, Language, Life, Painting

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