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Textovert 1.1 can now convert PDF files to other formats

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Now additionally offers conversion of PDF files to plain text, RTF, HTML, Word doc and docx, Safari Web Archive and other formats.

December 1, 2025 Macs, Technology, Updates

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

Textovert 1.0: a convenient wrapper for text conversion

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Drag and drop files you want to convert to a different format, and Textovert will call textutil to do that for you. Quick, simple and convenient.

November 25, 2025 Macs, Technology, Updates

Convert text between file formats, including webarchives

Convert between text, HTML, RTF, RTFD, Word .doc and .docx, WordML, ODT and Safari Web Archives using this command tool.

November 24, 2025 Macs, Technology

A Spotlight bug affecting all recent macOS: the LG error

From Ventura (if not earlier) to Tahoe, Spotlight appears unable to index text files that start with two specific letters. Although those are exceedingly rare, this could still catch you out.

October 23, 2025 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

Searching with regular expressions: the mighty regex

How you can use regexes to make search more powerful and reduce the number of irrelevant entries it returns.

April 20, 2024 Macs, Technology

Invisible Unicode and compound emoji

A collection of zero-width characters, including the joiner used to create compound emoji, and others to control ligatures and line breaks.

March 30, 2024 General, Language, Macs, Technology

PDF, Live Text and Spotlight: troubled relationships

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Searching the text content of PDF documents often doesn’t work well, sometimes not at all. And recovering what you can see is text can also fail miserably.

February 1, 2024 Macs, Technology

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