![]() ![]() Here, in Signet’s Help book, is a concise guide to the most common error codes resulting from problems in validating code signatures. In many cases, I include detailed information that you won’t find anywhere outside this blog. This example is taken from the early pages of the Help book for Ulbow. The great thing about these PDF help files is support for high-quality screenshots, good layout, and hyperlinks to help you use an app from the start. Yet I’ve been asked a succession of questions about this new feature by several users. I was quite proud of the additions I made to SilentKnight’s Help Reference explaining its checks on XProtect Remediator scans. If you’ve asked questions here, or by email, and I’ve referred you to an app’s documentation, I’m not getting at you, but trying to understand why my documentation doesn’t seem to be fit for purpose. Now, my problem is that no one seems to look at them. A few years ago, I decided to abandon normal Help books and make my own using PDF generated from Nisus, and that’s what most of my apps use. Although Help Crafter does generate PDF, it’s not as good as that created in my favourite document editor, Nisus Writer Pro. I also like to provide a separate PDF version for reference. That is sometimes so bad as to give the impression that the Help book hasn’t opened at all, and I’ve had several users ask me why it fails. Even in Apple’s own apps, they can take more than ten seconds to open, sometimes fail altogether, and when they eventually decide to cooperate, the Help window gets put to the back, and is lost among everything else. I started using Help Crafter, which provides a friendly interface and full WYSIWYG, but the steady decline in performance of the macOS Help system has made traditional Help books embarrassing. One problem is the standard Help system, which is neither well-supported by authoring tools, nor does it work at all well. Testing and debugging is inevitably more variable, but writing documentation can take longer than both of those put together. On a good day, I can put together the first version of a basic utility like XProCheck, or a new log module for Mints, in a few hours. ![]() Both require macOS 10.Often the most time-consuming phase of writing software isn’t the coding itself, nor testing and debugging, but documenting an app for its users. Nisus Writer Express: $26 new, free update, 71.7 MB, release notes. (Nisus Writer Pro: $65 new with a 25% discount for TidBITS members, free update, 277 MB, release notes. Nisus Writer Pro gains a new Copy Link to Bookmark option adds text search to filter targets and allows choosing a target by indexing or styles in the Insert Cross-Reference and Add Link to Content windows adds various macro commands to inspect and change the shadow of text, images, and shapes and fixes a bug that prevented tracked deletions and replacements from being exported to HTML and EPUB. New features for both apps include prompts for how an inserted PDF should be treated (text, an image, or sequence of images), new Show Font Previews and Choose Replacement Font menus that display selected text using available fonts, and an Extract Text From Image menu that uses OCR to extract text (requires 10.15 Catalina).īoth Nisus Writer Pro and Nisus Writer Express also add dedicated image manipulation commands, enable you to Show Linked File in Finder to see a linked image’s source file, add Touch Bar items for changing applied text styles, ensure that DOC and DOCX files import reliably in Big Sur, resolve several user interface issues and irregularities in Big Sur, and address problems with zoom restoration when exiting full-screen mode. Nisus Software has released Nisus Writer Pro 3.2 and Nisus Writer Express 4.2, adding support for macOS 11 Big Sur, M1-based Macs, and Dark mode to both editions of the word processing app. 1646: Security-focused OS updates, Photos Workbench review, Mastodon client wishlist, Apple-related conferences.1647: Focus-caused notification issues, site-specific browser examples, virtualizing Windows on M-series Macs.#1648: iPhone passcode thefts, Center Cam improves webcam eye contact, APFS Uncertainty Principle.#1649: More LastPass breach details and 1Password switch, macOS screen saver problem, tvOS 16.3.3 fixes Siri Remote bug.#1650: Cloud storage changes for Box, Dropbox, Google Drive, and OneDrive quirky printing problem. ![]()
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