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Printing without tears in Dark Mode (and exporting to PDF)

How to cater for Dark Mode when printing an AppKit view, and how to add a command to export a document in PDF format. Swift 5.0.

April 19, 2019 Macs, Technology

Take notes: Tinderbox 8 is the bee’s knees

One of the few apps that I still use frequently, and have used since version 1.0 in Mac OS X 10.0, Tinderbox has just been upgraded to version 8. Here’s why you should try it out.

April 16, 2019 General, Macs, Technology

How does notarization affect your own apps and scripts?

Apple’s latest information on notarization can appear alarming and contradictory. Do you need to notarize your own apps and scripts? More helpful guidance.

April 12, 2019 Macs, Technology

When a window closes as soon as it has opened

In Sierra but not Mojave, when the user opens an ancillary window, it appears for a moment, then vanishes. Is it a bug in the code, or in AppKit?

March 13, 2019 Macs, Technology

PDF without Adobe: 7 Adding a PDF Help book

A simple way to provide a proper Help book for your app, and separate PDF documentation without wasted effort. Uses Swift in Xcode.

February 18, 2019 Macs, Technology

PDF without Adobe: 5 Building your own PDF reader 3

By popular request, how to customise the PDF reader’s interface to enlarge the window and show larger thumbnails. With two lines of code.

February 15, 2019 Macs, Technology

Quick Actions 5: Third-party solution

Searching for third party Quick Actions, I came across the excellent Yoink, the only app which seems to have solved them. Or has it?

February 15, 2019 Macs, Technology

PDF without Adobe: 4 Building your own PDF reader 2

This second part uses Xcode’s Interface Builder to create the document window, then wire it up to the code which brings PDFKit and AppKit together.

February 14, 2019 Macs, Technology

PDF without Adobe: 3 Building your own PDF reader 1

Building a useful app in Xcode 10.1 with Swift. This app is a PDF reader which requires around a dozen lines of code.

February 14, 2019 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Mojave’s half-baked Quick Actions

Unsupported by developer documentation or Xcode, Quick Actions can only be seriously useful when reversible. Or are they just an embellishment to Finder?

February 10, 2019 Macs, Technology

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