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Printing without tears in Dark Mode (and exporting to PDF)

How to cater for Dark Mode when printing an AppKit view, and how to add a command to export a document in PDF format. Swift 5.0.

April 19, 2019 Macs, Technology

Apple Intel and ARM systems: performance comparisons

How have Intel Macs and the SoCs in Apple’s iPads and iPhones improved in performance since 2014? Which has the cost-performance advantage?

April 19, 2019 Macs, Technology

Apple has pushed an update to Gatekeeper’s data

Apple has pushed an update to the data used by Gatekeeper, bringing its version number to 165, dated […]

April 18, 2019 Macs, Technology

Paul Ranson: the heart of the Nabis 1

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He introduced the Nabis’ argot, gave them all names, and remained true to their style for longer than most.

April 18, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Mojave’s Legacy Software is doubly wrong

How reliably does Legacy Software detect 64-bit compatible upgrades? For some apps, it doesn’t notice at all, it appears, and continues to give wrong information.

April 18, 2019 Macs, Technology

Leonardo da Vinci: The Master’s Master 5

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Two lost paintings – a mural of the Battle of Anghiari in Florence, and a possible work showing Leda, plus his later Virgin and Child with St Anne.

April 17, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Podofyllin 1.0b16 now prints each of its views

Prints from any one of its six views, two as PDF, and four different text views, each of which is generated in Light Mode to save the black toner.

April 17, 2019 Macs, Technology

Macs may need ARM processors to survive

Why change the processors used in Macs, when all that will do is cause loads of compatibility problems? Some thoughts on how important this could be.

April 17, 2019 Macs, Technology

Medium Well Done: 5 Watercolour and gouache

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With a binder of gum arabic, watercolours came into use in the Renaissance, and have steadily increased in popularity.

April 16, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Take notes: Tinderbox 8 is the bee’s knees

One of the few apps that I still use frequently, and have used since version 1.0 in Mac OS X 10.0, Tinderbox has just been upgraded to version 8. Here’s why you should try it out.

April 16, 2019 General, Macs, Technology

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