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How WordPress comments and Property Lists can trip you up

When you write a comment to an article here, or edit a Property List, you’re editing XML. Two or three characters won’t work properly.

May 22, 2021 General, Language, Life, Macs, Painting, 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

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

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

Second release candidate of DelightEd

Now lets you set your own default font and size applied to all new windows, and offers better reduced contrast appearance in both Dark and Light modes.

December 1, 2018 Macs, Technology

Using and hacking styles in TextEdit and DelightEd

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How to extend TextEdit to create bi-modal text, and add more styles to DelightEd, TextEdit, and other apps. And how to use Font Traits.

November 29, 2018 Macs, Technology

DelightEd now has continuous word and character counts and help

First candidate for a final release, this counts the words and characters in your Rich Text as you type or edit them.

November 29, 2018 Macs, Technology

DelightEd, the most flexible Rich Text editor, supports links and more

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Also fixes Endarken and Enlighten for changing the colour of Rich Text and its behaviour in Light and Dark Modes.

November 27, 2018 Macs, Technology

DelightEd edges forward towards full release

A reduced contrast option should make Dark Mode easier on the eyes, and there’s additional help for converting text to work fully in both Light and Dark modes.

November 15, 2018 Macs, Technology

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