I’ve spent a lot of time of late working on several macOS command line tools written in Swift. So I’ve gathered together the key points I’ve learned while creating and updating pdfmaker and imageprep: some best practices and ways to deliver many of the features common to programs the run at the command line.
I’ve just posted updates to a couple of applications. Both can be grabbed from my website or installed using Homebrew.
I’ve just released version 2.2.0 of pdfmaker. You can view the source code here, and download an installer package here.
You can now convert a PDF to a set of images.
For a more detailed post about pdfmaker, click here.
Update My PreviewMarkdown app, which provides Markdown file previews and icon thumbnails in Catalins, is now available from the Mac App Store.
Providing content-based icon thumbnails in macOS Catalina follows the same pattern as generating file previews: QuickLook runs code from an app extension and calls a function within that code to draw the image that will be placed on the icon.
I’ve just released version 1.1.0 of pdfmaker. You can view the source code here, and download an installer package here.
You can now select a single source file, not just a folder of files, and you specify the output PDF’s filename as part of the specified destination path, rather than separately (so the --name switch has been removed).
For a more detailed post about pdfmaker, click here.
Has iCloud and/or Safari just borked your bookmarks? This happened to me yesterday; here’s how I fixed it…
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