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How Rich Text can vanish in QuickLook

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You preview a major Rich Text document, which QuickLook shows as completely empty. Has something terrible happened, or is it just a four year-old bug?

August 3, 2022 Macs, Technology

How colours get hacked by the web

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In the original JPEG image, the yellow and red are clearly distinguishable. By the time they’ve been rendered, they are hard to tell apart. Unless you’re colour-blind.

August 16, 2021 General, Macs, Painting, Technology

18 months on and Dark Mode still doesn’t work properly

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Obvious problems include QuickLook thumbnails and previews which display white text on a white background.

March 6, 2020 Macs, Technology

Apple, meet WYSIWYG; it’s the way Macs used to work

It may seem minor, but what TextEdit has been doing for the last 6 months is a travesty of what made the Mac.

July 25, 2019 Macs, Technology

Known bugs in macOS Mojave 10.14.6: an incomplete summary

Little changed from 10.14.5, the final release of Mojave still has many significant bugs. Here’s a partial listing.

July 24, 2019 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Last of the Mojave

In the next week or two, 10.14.6 should be released, the last version of Mojave, and the last macOS to run on cheesegrater Mac Pros. Where has it got us?

June 30, 2019 Macs, Technology

Known bugs in macOS Mojave 10.14.5: an incomplete summary

Only one previously reported bug appears to have been fixed in 10.14.5. Here’s a list of some of those which remain.

May 15, 2019 Macs, Technology

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

DelightEd now opens the rich text content of PDFs, as well as HTML, RTF and text files

This Rich Text editor now opens and saves RTF, plain text, HTML, and PDF, in which it preserves as much text styling as possible.

April 2, 2019 Macs, Technology

Mojave Spotlight bug: Dictionaries don’t do Dark Mode

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Look in the Dictionary app, and entries are fine in Dark Mode. But access the same content via Spotlight, and they become unreadable. Why?

March 29, 2019 Macs, Technology

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