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PDF without Adobe: 9 Bizarre bug in macOS

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Many improvements in the second release of Podofyllin, but there’s a weird bug affecting PDF thumbnail views which leads to synchronised scrolling.

February 20, 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

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

Scripting in Swift: Process deprecations

Calling command tools from Swift changes with macOS 10.13 and 10.14 with the deprecation of some of the Process class. Solutions aren’t as clean as they should be.

February 2, 2019 Macs, Technology

Code signing for the concerned: 6 Signing scripts and command tools

Can you sign AppleScript apps in Script Editor? Is there a better tool? What’s the best way to sign a command tool developed in Xcode?

January 31, 2019 Macs, Technology

Code signing for the concerned: 5 Signing and privacy control

One important requirement for code signatures is with Mojave’s new privacy controls. Are they needed, though?

January 29, 2019 Macs, Technology

Code signing for the concerned: 4 Results and testing

Testing at the command line, with What’s Your Sign?, and according to the requirements of the signature.

January 18, 2019 Macs, Technology

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