Tomas Chlebek MacOS Sierra is one of the more reliable versions of Apple's computer operating system, as it introduced fewer major innovations and often focused on improving performance and stability. However, it is far from perfect and some flaws are too obvious.
One of them has been showing up for quite some time – problems with PDF documents. On the day of the official release of macOS Sierra, the first problems associated with PDF files were discovered by users of Fujitsu's ScanSnap scanning applications. The documents created by this software contained many errors and its users were advised to wait before switching to a new version of macOS. Fortunately, ScanSnap's malfunction on the Mac was preventable, and Apple fixed its compatibility with macOS with the release of macOS 10.12.1.
Since then, however, there have been more problems with reading and editing PDF files on the Mac. All seem to be related to Apple's decision to rewrite PDFKit, which handles macOS's handling of PDF files. Apple did this in order to unify PDF handling in macOS and iOS, but in the process inadvertently affected macOS's backward compatibility with pre-existing software and created many bugs.
DEVONthink-affiliated developer Christian Grunenberg says of the modified PDFKit that it's "a work in progress, (…) it was released too soon, and for the first time (at least as far as I know) Apple has removed several features without considering compatibility."
In the latest version of macOS, marked 10.12.2, there is a new bug in the Preview application, which removes the OCR layer for many PDF documents after editing them in the application, which enables text recognition and work with it (marking, rewriting, etc.).
TidBITS Developer and Editor Adam C. Engst he wrote: “As a co-author of the manual Take Control of Preview I'm sorry to say this, but I must advise Sierra users to avoid using Preview to edit PDF documents until Apple fixes these bugs. If you can't avoid editing the PDF in Preview, make sure you work with a copy of the file and keep the original in case the edits somehow damage the file."
Many developers reported the observed bugs to Apple, but in many cases Apple either did not respond at all or stated that it was not a bug. Jon Ashwell, developer of Bookends, said: “I sent Apple several bug reports, two of which were closed as duplicates. On another occasion, I was asked to provide our app, which I did, but received no further response.”
I confirm. I've installed Sierra and the native Preview app doesn't display PDFs with forms properly. I have to use Adobe Reader which is a pain. The preview was enough for me. I hope they do it as soon as possible.
Apple really did not reach for a library for working with PDF for a long time. Unfortunately, it's a key component of macOS that the likes of Pages (iWork) rely on. That is why, for example, in Pages you cannot export (or print!!! to a printer) comments to PDF or export a document as PDF/A (archival purposes - it is required somewhere for bachelors/diplomas). Word does these things nicely.
Top developers are now top developers.. Oh yeah, that software used to be really good.. Back in the day :-(
Remember the old Snow Leopard, it ran like clockwork.
I still ride it today and I won't change it until the iron that supports it breaks. And if the iMac were to fail, I'd probably look for a used Mack Pro in the box (for God's sake NOT the trash!) and ride the snowman again. I think that even Johnny Ive has already passed his best years. At the time of the iMac G3 and G4, he was a PAN designer. Today, everything is ugly, colorless, flat, strangely faded... like other PCs and Android devices
PDF used to be a key advantage of Mac OS X and one of its core components - it was called QARTZ. Apple is probably suffering from Alzheimer's :(
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Dilettantes are already running it. Shame on Jobs, I don't think he would have ever allowed that terrible ciara design either. It used to be something, but now I don't know if it's time to switch to Windows.
TO TRAVELER in TIME: Unfortunately, not dilettantes but buzzards - with all due respect to Tim, he is a weak womanizer who dragged a lot of people there from the field of fashion, etc. Anyone who meant anything in the field of Apple development is gone. B. Mansfield, head of iOS development, just to name a few. S. Jobs simply said bluntly - it's shit and swept it off the table. He was always the first beta-tester-team that was not an engineer, but an ordinary user of Apple products, who knew exactly how to catch flies and say like this, no, this will not work for an ordinary user, it must be redone. And he was a visionary, a tough negotiator, he didn't take orders from marketing. Tim is weak, they have no Wau product for the future. iPhone sales are falling, iPads too, professional products are outdated, they stopped producing software for professionals. It's only a matter of time before Apple gets into trouble like it did when Scully led it. But no S. Jobs will come to pull them out of their shit.
It also bothers me that they no longer have products for professionals, or I'm currently focusing more on the mainstream. And it is no longer the company it used to be. Now shareholder greed is involved.
I'm rather annoyed by the problem with the graphics when logging out in iMacs, the color breaks are terrible.
Apple is becoming a service company. Software and especially hardware will be secondary. There will be iCloud, streaming services, movies and other things will go to the background.
well, most importantly, we have a lot of amazing emojis .. who cares about a PDF ..
I won't even give Sierra, it's buggy as always.