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How Mojave messes up printing

It could and should have been so easy, but just try printing when in Dark Mode. Many apps make a pig’s ear of it – and it’s not their fault.

January 2, 2019 Macs, Technology

DelightEd now opens and saves plain text and HTML as well as Rich Text

Version 1.1 supports three file formats, but working with HTML is not easy, as it cannot (yet) support bimodal text.

December 28, 2018 Macs, Technology

Should appearance mode change text views?

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Currently, many major apps keep all the active editing view in Light Mode, irrespective of whether the rest of macOS is in Dark Mode. Is that the best option?

December 14, 2018 Macs, Technology

Which word processors support Rich Text in Dark Mode?

Which app should you use when you want styled or Rich Text to remain readable whether it’s displayed in Light or Dark Mode?

December 12, 2018 Macs, Technology

Rendering Rich Text in Dark Mode

A proposal for ensuring consistent display of Rich Text across apps and tools in macOS, and elsewhere.

December 10, 2018 Macs, Technology

How to fix a Secure Note (or anything else) which won’t display in Dark Mode

You open a Secure Note or other text, only to see its content seems to have vanished when viewed in Dark Mode. Here’s how to fix it.

December 10, 2018 Macs, Technology

Last Week on my Mac: Crippling Rich Text with Dark Mode

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Mojave’s handling of Rich Text in Dark Mode is now broken in several places, including the new version of TextEdit, in QuickLook, and Pages.

December 9, 2018 Macs, Technology

Known bugs in macOS Mojave 10.14.2: an incomplete summary

There are still many outstanding from 10.14, and one going back many years.

December 7, 2018 Macs, Technology

TextEdit 1.14: Not the Dark Mode you’d expect

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Not mentioned in the release notes, the new version of TextEdit is a bold attempt to provide a Dark Mode which is infuriating, confusing, and inconsistent. Avoid it.

December 6, 2018 Macs, Technology

Want more from your Rich Text editor? Here’s DelightEd 1.0

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Gets your Rich Text documents working properly in Light and Dark modes, and extensive support for editing, including live word and character count.

December 4, 2018 General, Language, Macs, Technology

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