Why don’t some PDFs display properly outside Adobe software? Will PDFs ever become more accessible? And what to do when they get damaged?
macOS
A close look at just what macOS PDF support and Preview can do well, including a hidden file conversion feature.
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.
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.
Setting up a new or repurposed Mac may involve updating its firmware – EFI, SMC, and T2 chip if necessary. You can’t do that using imaging, but must run an Apple system installer or updater.
Apple has just pushed an update to the data used by Gatekeeper, bringing its version number to 162, […]
Apple has just pushed an update to its malware removal tool, MRT, for macOS, bringing its version number […]
Calling command tools from Swift changes with macOS 10.13 and 10.14 with the deprecation of some of the Process class. Solutions aren’t as clean as they should be.
It has been one of the oldest problems on Macs, when a document shows with the wrong icon. Why, and how to fix it?
You try to open a document – in this case, one of Firefox’s bookmarks – and nothing happens. What could be wrong? It turns out it’s a bug, of course. But where?
The Eclectic Light Company 