The PDF "format" never fails to amuse me. Check out the talk "OMG WTF PDF" [0] from the 27. Chaos Communication Congress, it's eye opening. 0: https://media.ccc.de/v/27c3-4221-en-omg_wtf_pdf
Thanks for that link.
Edge displays “123456” in PDF but prints “114447”
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Re: Edge displays “123456” in PDF but prints “114447”
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The built-in MacOS support for PDF is great. Any app that can print to a printer can print to a PDF file. And the Preview app, despite its name, can edit PDFs to add annotations (text, graphics), add or remove pages, etc. There's also a feature by which you sign your name on a piece of paper, hold it up to the camera, and it will capture it and insert it into a the document. It's convenient that these are built in an…
I worked on Preview at Apple from 2008-2011 and created the signature capture feature. It's always cool to hear people talk about it!
I've demonstrated and gotten literally hundreds of users to fall in love with it. Thanks for that!
Re: Edge displays “123456” in PDF but prints “114447”
#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
The built-in MacOS support for PDF is great. Any app that can print to a printer can print to a PDF file. And the Preview app, despite its name, can edit PDFs to add annotations (text, graphics), add or remove pages, etc. There's also a feature by which you sign your name on a piece of paper, hold it up to the camera, and it will capture it and insert it into a the document. It's convenient that these are built in an…
I worked on Preview at Apple from 2008-2011 and created the signature capture feature. It's always cool to hear people talk about it!
Thanks. It's a great feature, and one that adds a lot to the overall Mac OS experience. It's too bad that most people have no idea that it exists, since no other OS has it. But for those who know, it's a huge time and paper saver. Excellent work.
Re: Edge displays “123456” in PDF but prints “114447”
#34Just in case you don't click through, the bug submitter refers to a color PDF (not a scan, so image compression artifacts are not an issue) that is similar in appearance to a periodic table. That is, it is not the sequence of `123456` that is mistranslated into `114447`, but a sequence of 6 table cells, each containing a single digit. It's not just the numbers that are misprinted, but the text inside those cells too,…
Nice pun, it's an edge case...
Re: Edge displays “123456” in PDF but prints “114447”
#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
The built-in MacOS support for PDF is great. Any app that can print to a printer can print to a PDF file. And the Preview app, despite its name, can edit PDFs to add annotations (text, graphics), add or remove pages, etc. There's also a feature by which you sign your name on a piece of paper, hold it up to the camera, and it will capture it and insert it into a the document. It's convenient that these are built in an…
Doesn't Quartz use PostScript for rendering the MacOS desktop?
NeXT used Display PostScript, and I would create widgets by writing PostScript code.
Quartz is like QuickTime plus something like OpenGL shaders plus something like NeXTStep "display PDF". I have no idea if this encouraged PDF integration into the display model.
Rather, I would say that NeXT, and then Apple, had some great IP and cross-licensing of PostScript and PDF display tech, and so they could ship the OS distribution with PDF as the printing model.
That is, one reason Windows might today re-render PDF → XPS → PDF is that they had needed to create display tech like PDF anyway, and so they did, and this was after humans had been playing with HTML for a while... Silverlight was pretty.
Re: Edge displays “123456” in PDF but prints “114447”
#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
The built-in MacOS support for PDF is great. Any app that can print to a printer can print to a PDF file. And the Preview app, despite its name, can edit PDFs to add annotations (text, graphics), add or remove pages, etc. There's also a feature by which you sign your name on a piece of paper, hold it up to the camera, and it will capture it and insert it into a the document. It's convenient that these are built in an…
I worked on Preview at Apple from 2008-2011 and created the signature capture feature. It's always cool to hear people talk about it!
Thank you! It was a tremendous addition to the product and I still benefit from it many times every week. It's such a great detail - very nicely done.
Re: Edge displays “123456” in PDF but prints “114447”
#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
The built-in MacOS support for PDF is great. Any app that can print to a printer can print to a PDF file. And the Preview app, despite its name, can edit PDFs to add annotations (text, graphics), add or remove pages, etc. There's also a feature by which you sign your name on a piece of paper, hold it up to the camera, and it will capture it and insert it into a the document. It's convenient that these are built in an…
I worked on Preview at Apple from 2008-2011 and created the signature capture feature. It's always cool to hear people talk about it!
I just found out about this feature a couple of days ago, after being a Mac user for 4 years. My first thought was it's incredibly neat - shame I didn't learn about it before.
Re: Edge displays “123456” in PDF but prints “114447”
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Re: Edge displays “123456” in PDF but prints “114447”
#39x
you're missing the joke
Re: Edge displays “123456” in PDF but prints “114447”
#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
The built-in MacOS support for PDF is great. Any app that can print to a printer can print to a PDF file. And the Preview app, despite its name, can edit PDFs to add annotations (text, graphics), add or remove pages, etc. There's also a feature by which you sign your name on a piece of paper, hold it up to the camera, and it will capture it and insert it into a the document. It's convenient that these are built in an…
I worked on Preview at Apple from 2008-2011 and created the signature capture feature. It's always cool to hear people talk about it!
thank you! i wish apple promoted it more. what a gem.