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PDF without Adobe: 12 Vulnerabilities in digital signing

Do you use digital signatures in PDF documents, or do you trust your PDF reader to check them? You could be spoofed into trusting forgeries.

February 28, 2019 Macs, Technology

Searching PDF documents: a new feature in Podofyllin

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Getting the Find feature right for PDF documents is important. With text find already available, the best solution is distinct from that.

February 27, 2019 General, Language, Macs, Technology

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

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: 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

Mojave happily runs apps with revoked signatures, and more

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Has your Mac got any old apps and other bundles on it? Have their signing certificates been revoked, or are they perhaps unsigned? Here’s a new app to help you find out.

December 20, 2018 Macs, Technology

How XProtect now leaves Safari 12 open to Flash and other exploits

All versions of Safari, including shiny new 12, and macOS, including Mojave, appear vulnerable to exploits in old versions of Adobe Flash Player, because XProtect hasn’t been updated.

September 20, 2018 Macs, Technology

Hazel catches a silent Adobe update red-handed

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Sometimes you don’t know of a silent update until an app misbehaves or crashes. One day, the innocent-looking plist tucked away in a LaunchAgents folder could be malicious.

February 15, 2018 Macs, Technology

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