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DelightEd now opens the rich text content of PDFs, as well as HTML, RTF and text files

This Rich Text editor now opens and saves RTF, plain text, HTML, and PDF, in which it preserves as much text styling as possible.

April 2, 2019 Macs, Technology

Clipping files: copying through the Finder

All about textClipping and pictClipping files: what they are, and how to access the data within them.

March 5, 2019 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

Which word processors support Rich Text in Dark Mode?

Which app should you use when you want styled or Rich Text to remain readable whether it’s displayed in Light or Dark Mode?

December 12, 2018 Macs, Technology

How to fix a Secure Note (or anything else) which won’t display in Dark Mode

You open a Secure Note or other text, only to see its content seems to have vanished when viewed in Dark Mode. Here’s how to fix it.

December 10, 2018 Macs, Technology

TextEdit 1.14: Not the Dark Mode you’d expect

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Not mentioned in the release notes, the new version of TextEdit is a bold attempt to provide a Dark Mode which is infuriating, confusing, and inconsistent. Avoid it.

December 6, 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

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