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Category Archive: Macs

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

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

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

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

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

Mojave Finder Accent and Highlight colours shouldn’t create a third colour

Does Mojave blend the colours you set in Accents and Highlights to create a third colour, or is the appearance of a third colour just a bug?

March 4, 2019 Macs, Technology

PDF without Adobe: 13 PDF documents can readily leak data

Three ways to remove data from PDFs: redaction, deletion of content, and deletion of annotations. Can you trust them, or do they leak data?

March 4, 2019 General, Language, Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Keyboard shortcuts killed by bug

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Want to use App Shortcuts in Mojave? You’re out of luck because its broken, and Apple can’t be bothered to fix it.

March 3, 2019 Macs, Technology

Mojave’s Time Machine 1.5: Working well but small quirks

With APFS, Time Machine underwent major change, to using snapshots to determine what to back up, rather than FSEvents. How well has this worked?

March 2, 2019 Macs, Technology

Recovering a damaged document

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That document is damaged and can’t be opened. But you think it’s got versions saved, if only you could get at them. How?

March 1, 2019 Macs, Technology

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