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Monthly Archives: November 2011
Viewing print PDFs properly
To view a print-ready PDF properly, there are some settings to switch on in Acrobat or Adobe Reader. They’re off by default, for some reason. Show trim area Traditionally, PDFs (and before that, film) are output with crop marks embedded. … Continue reading
Reduce the amount of inactive memory to increase free memory
When memory is no longer needed by an application/program/process, Mac OS X may still keep the data so that if you need it again, it’s already there. This is the ‘inactive memory’ in Activity Monitor. If you do some new … Continue reading
Starting Mac applications with arguments
In most cases a program can be started from the icon and all is fine. Sometimes, the program offers extra functionality if you hold down Alt/Option when opening – iTunes, for example, lets you change your music library. Occasionally a … Continue reading
PDF printer in Mac OS X
.If a Mac application uses the standard Print dialog box, as virtually everything does, then a PDF can easily be made with the PDF menu button. If specific PDF settings are required, the document can be saved as PostScript then … Continue reading
Pass arguments to Automator or AppleScript workflows from the command line
AppleScript osascript test.scpt a=3 b where test.scpt is on run argv set a to item 1 of argv return “First argument (a=3) is ” & a end run Note that AppleScripts run by osascript send their output back to the … Continue reading
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