Almost a century after its publication, Pissarro still recommended Valenciennes’ textbook on landscape painting. Here’s why.
By popular request, how to customise the PDF reader’s interface to enlarge the window and show larger thumbnails. With two lines of code.
Searching for third party Quick Actions, I came across the excellent Yoink, the only app which seems to have solved them. Or has it?
Modern landscape painting, since before the Impressionists, relies on oil sketches made in front of the motif. Was it Vernet who advised Valenciennes to adopt this practice?
This second part uses Xcode’s Interface Builder to create the document window, then wire it up to the code which brings PDFKit and AppKit together.
Building a useful app in Xcode 10.1 with Swift. This app is a PDF reader which requires around a dozen lines of code.
Three religious paintings, including two skilfully-told narratives, a history, and the only nude of his to have survived.
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.
Faust and Mephistopheles attend the witches’ celebrations on the Brocken peak in the Harz Mountains – a wild night, it seems.
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.
The Eclectic Light Company 