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Does Preview write PDF/A?

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?

November 21, 2025 Macs, Technology

Start planning your Mac’s Spring clean

Spring will soon be upon us, and it’s time to plan our Spring software housekeeping to clear out the junk that has accumulated over the winter. How to go about it.

February 6, 2025 Macs, Technology

Why you need to make archives, and how to

Backups are for recovery, while archives are for posterity. Plan for the future now by storing important files on durable media in your personal archives.

November 1, 2024 Macs, Technology

How should you save web pages in Safari?

How should you keep copies of web pages: HTML source, Webarchive, or PDF? Which is the better way to make PDFs in Safari? And what about archive copies?

July 1, 2022 Macs, Technology

How to burn a Blu-ray disc in Monterey

Ideal for storing archives of important files, M-DISC media are intended to last longer than a human lifetime, but are expensive. Here’s how to use them.

June 28, 2022 Macs, Technology

Explainer: Archiving isn’t backing up

Archiving is very different from backing up, from the storage media used to integrity checks. Here are pointers to help you preserve important documents.

June 25, 2022 Macs, Technology

Check file integrity with Dintch 1.0

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First release version, for El Capitan to Catalina. And completely free of course.

April 1, 2020 Macs, Technology

Dintch Support

This page is for your support questions and comments on my free file integrity checker Dintch. Full details, […]

March 25, 2020 Macs, Technology

Dintch 1.0b2 should now run on macOS 10.11 to 10.15

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Other major changes include detailed reporting, and user control over the size of buffer used, bringing big performance improvements.

March 25, 2020 Macs, Technology

Burning to Blu-ray

If you opt for ‘Mac-only’ format, isn’t that sufficient to preserve everything you need in an archive?

March 24, 2020 Macs, Technology

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