Traces the path of metadata from inside a PDF document and its extended attributes, to those in Spotlight’s indexes and displayed in the Finder. Only a third survived that journey.
Version support built into macOS doesn’t preserve versions as well as it could. Here’s how to use Versatility to ensure you don’t lose versions in iCloud, moving a file, or backing up.
A demonstration of three simple ways to add invisible text to a PDF that could be used to prompt AI how to review it. And a method of detection.
Now additionally offers conversion of PDF files to plain text, RTF, HTML, Word doc and docx, Safari Web Archive and other formats.
How PDF is different from PostScript, how to identify key parts of PDF source code, layout problems, verbosity, flattening and mojibake.
Test version can now export PDF to Rich Text Format. For evaluation, please, to see if this would be worth adding to Textovert.
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?
There are now 5 options, saving to HTML, webarchive, PNG image, and two variants of PDF. Which should you use to keep a record of a web page?
Annotations are complicated. If you’re not careful, hidden annotations can be left in documents and cause embarrassment. And how to recover a PDF that Preview has mutilated.
macOS gained Live Text and Visual Look Up when Apple declared its intent to check our images. Both are used in Spotlight’s indexes, but their function seems unreliable and highly variable.
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