Preview offers PDF/A as an export option, intended for PDFs that are to be relied on long into the future, for archives. Do they comply with one of the PDF/A standards, though?
Category Archive: Macs
When Spotlight can’t find the files you expect it to, it could be that they weren’t indexed, or that Spotlight’s search has failed to find their index entries. Here’s how to tell those apart and work out what went wrong.
The Preview pane in Finder windows can show a comprehensive list of metadata, or a shortened list you can customise in Preview Options. Here’s how to use it and how it can provide further information.
A survey of support for APFS, HFS+, FAT and ExFAT, NTFS, ZFS, Linux file systems, and MacFUSE with its potential for file systems running in user-space.
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 334. Here are my solutions to them. 1: First […]
There are now 5 options, saving to HTML, webarchive, PNG image, and two variants of PDF. Which should you use to keep a record of a web page?
Normally, the x.1 update fixes many of the bugs from the first release. But in Tahoe, a crop of fresh bugs have been included. Here are some of them, and how they have arisen.
Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: First fruit […]
They’re invisible in the Finder, even when it’s showing hidden files. They’re present in many of the folders in your Home folder. And they can do bad things like break your backups.
If you use Timers in the Clock app a lot, after a while the app may stop working and show a blank view. This is the result of a service hoarding old timers to its property list.
The Eclectic Light Company 