Apple has just released the update to bring Big Sur to version 11.4. This appears more modest in […]
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Preview now offers a tool to redact content from PDF documents. It’s simple to use, but is it safe, or could it lead to disclosure of sensitive information?
It’s enough to make you and Edvard Munch scream: every QuickLook thumbnail and preview has rounded corners. They scream out the arrogance of the designer.
A little tidying for its first full release, and this PDF reader and analysis utility now runs native on Intel and Apple Silicon Macs.
Preview has strange behaviour when adding and editing annotations, even in Catalina. It quickly gets upsetting and unreliable.
How your Mac’s security and privacy systems can cause duplicate copies of files to be written to your backups.
Three Finder bugs in 10.15.3, from the plain silly to infuriating. Every Mac still has a hard disk, Preview Options that don’t work, and a very old fiend.
Dealing with protected PDFs in macOS: fully encrypted, and those with controls such as no printing or copying. Oh dear.
A great idea: tag blocks of text in a PDF and build them into reading order, so that they can be read out loud. How well does that work, then?
Searching this PDF using Preview is hopeless. Is it a bug in Preview or macOS? How can you get proper access to its contents?
The Eclectic Light Company 