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Explainer: Text formats

All about plain text, rich text, RTFD, .doc, .docx, HTML, webarchive, WordML, ODT and Pages formats, and how much space they take.

November 28, 2025 Macs, Technology

Podofyllin 1.5 beta can export PDF to RTF

Test version can now export PDF to Rich Text Format. For evaluation, please, to see if this would be worth adding to Textovert.

November 27, 2025 Macs, Technology

System fonts: the delights of San Francisco

How can you use San Francisco, the system font for macOS and Apple’s other OSes? An example traced through from macOS internals to PDF and HTML.

August 2, 2024 Macs, Technology

Updates to DelightEd, Podofyllin and Nalaprop for Writing Tools

Three new versions that are compatible with Writing Tools in Sequoia 15.1 beta, and should perform better in other recent versions of macOS.

August 1, 2024 Macs, Technology, Updates

A short history of styled text on the Mac: TeachText to TextEdit & RTF

The journey from single-document and basic styles, through the lightweight word processor brought to Mac OS X from NeXT.

May 25, 2024 Macs, Technology

SwiftUI on macOS: text, rich text, markdown, html and PDF views source code

Swift source code to accompany the article on SwiftUI on macOS: text, rich text, markdown, html and PDF views.

May 7, 2024 Macs, Technology

SwiftUI on macOS: text, rich text, markdown, html and PDF views

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Trying to display formatted text in plain text, markdown, rich text, HTML, and PDF using SwiftUI and in AppKit/WebKit views within SwiftUI.

May 7, 2024 Macs, Technology

Are TextEdit and QuickLook still getting Dark Mode wrong?

User content shouldn’t have its colours changed according to the appearance mode. So why do TextEdit and QuickLook thumbnails change custom text colours?

October 13, 2023 Macs, Technology

Working with appearance modes in Rich Text: a new version of DelightEd

A new version of this Rich Text editor now remembers its appearance mode, and uses that as the default mode for documents too.

September 11, 2023 Macs, Technology, Updates

Text file formats

What’s the difference between plain text, marked-up plain text, and rich text? How can I tell them apart, and how do they work?

December 20, 2022 Macs, Technology

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