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Diagnosing a Spotlight bug in Big Sur: failure to index RTF content

Why can’t my Macs find text in Rich Text files? This explains how to diagnose the cause – which here is a bug in Big Sur’s Spotlight importer for RTF.

February 12, 2021 Macs, Technology

DelightEd 2.0 is now a Universal App

Finally out of beta, this Rich Text editor supports unusual features such as interlinear text, and is a Universal App.

August 6, 2020 Macs, Technology, Updates

DelightEd version 2.0b4 can now read more Unicode text

Thanks to Michele, who discovered one of those rare Unicode UTF-16 text files, found that DelightEd couldn’t make […]

February 21, 2020 Macs, Technology, Updates

Rich Text documents: RTF and RTFD

What are the differences, what can you do with each of the two formats, and when should you use them?

July 30, 2019 General, Language, Macs, Technology

Apple, meet WYSIWYG; it’s the way Macs used to work

It may seem minor, but what TextEdit has been doing for the last 6 months is a travesty of what made the Mac.

July 25, 2019 Macs, Technology

Updates for DelightEd and Podofyllin

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Bringing code integrity checking at each app launch, and automatic checking and download of future updates.

June 6, 2019 Macs, Technology

Implementing interlinear text in macOS

Presenting two or more versions of the same text close together is a challenge. Here’s how I arrived at one solution, and implemented it.

April 30, 2019 Language, Macs, Technology

Making interlinear composite text using DelightEd 2.0b1

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Ever wished you could read an original and translation of text right next to one another? Now you can do it easily in this new version.

April 29, 2019 General, Language, Macs, Technology

Update to fix printing and PDF issues in DelightEd, and a new product page

Printing now functions in Light Mode properly, and there are three different ways to generate better PDFs from Rich Text documents.

April 15, 2019 Macs, Technology

Podofyllin now exports Rich Text and delves deeper into PDF documents

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Save a Rich Text version of any PDF document, and explore its PDF code further, gaining clues as to potential problems and leakage, and more.

April 5, 2019 Macs, Technology

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