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PDF, Live Text and Spotlight: troubled relationships
Given its original purpose, age, and erratic development, we have unrealistic expectations of our PDF documents. Just because they have become something of a de facto standard for archiving important...
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SwiftUI on macOS: PDF Help book
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SwiftUI on macOS: text, rich text, markdown, html and PDF views
This article has a source code supplement. To read that in parallel, open this link in a separate window or tab so you can follow this account with its full source code. In my opening assessment of...
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SwiftUI on macOS: Documents
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This is the Swift source code to accompany the article SwiftUI on macOS: Documents. URL App import SwiftUI @main struct DroperaApp: App { var body: some Scene { DocumentGroup(viewing:...
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PDF on Macs: the rise and fall of Preview
The Mac established itself on the strength of two graphics languages, QuickDraw and PostScript. QuickDraw was for its display, had many advanced features for the time, and you may still bump into it in...
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Updates to DelightEd, Podofyllin and Nalaprop for Writing Tools
I’m pleased (if not delighted) to release three new versions of my free utilities that work with text, one way or another. These fix problems that prevent their previous versions from having access to...
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System fonts: the delights of San Francisco
Before Apple switched its system font to San Francisco in 2015, with El Capitan, it had used a succession of fonts already in widespread use, including Lucida Grande and Helvetica Neue. Those could be...
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