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Three ways to save web pages as read-later PDFs on iOS
With the demise of Instapaper — in Europe at least — you may be looking for a good way to save web pages for offline reading. The obvious built-in tool for this is Safari’s Reading list, but it’s very limited. Instead, consider turning the web page into a PDF. This lets you read the page anywhere, as well as mark it up with highlights, and search its entire content using Spotlight. AdvertisementThe thing is, there are three different way to save a webpage as a PDF, all of them built-in to iOS.
How to add sketches and diagrams to emails in iOS 11 | Cult of Mac
If you’re explaining something to another human in person, you’ll often reach for a pencil and paper to make it easier. Perhaps you’re drawing a map, or a quick diagram of that chest of drawers you think would look great in the guest room. To add a drawing to any email, first you need to compose an email. Either create a new message in the Mail app, or reply to an email you already received.
How to find the hidden printing options in Preview app | Cult of Mac
Today’s tip is a simple one which might help some of you from going nuts trying to find hidden pricing options on your Mac. Did you ever try to print a PDF in Safari? Usually when you click on a PDF link in the browser, Safari opens it up right there. This seems great if you want to quickly print the PDF, but you should stop right there. Safari’s printing sheet, the one that opens up when you hit Command-P to print, is a cut down version of the regular one.
How to print anything to PDF without touching a mouse | Cult of Mac
One of the neatest tricks built into the Mac, and now into iOS, is to print to PDF. In short, anything that can be printed can also be saved as a PDF. But doing so on the Mac means using the mouse to click a little drop-down picker in the print dialog. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could just tap Command-P — the keyboard shortcut for printing — twice instead? You already know the print shortcut. It’s Command P.
How to drag-and-drop content between Readdle's iPad apps | Cult of Mac
If you want to get an idea of how drag-and-drop could work on the iPad, then take a look at Readdle’s latest updates to its iOS productivity apps, which now allow you to drag files between the apps in split-screen view. That’s right, thanks to some very clever hacking, you can seamlessly drag a PDF, photo, or other document, from one app to another.
How to make an A+ term paper in PDF Expert | Cult of Mac
This post is brought to you by PDF Expert Students take heed: The winter semester is off and running, and it’s going to be time to turn in term papers before you know it. If you’re stressing out about getting through your reams of writing in a timely fashion, we’ve got a suggestion you might not have considered — writing with PDFs. PDFs not only produce a great looking final document, they also offer a versatile and flexible format for the writing and research process itself.
Scan text with your iPhone and make the real world searchable | Cult of Mac
Paper is still great for a lot of things. It’s lightweight, it’s fairly water-resistant, and is just about the best tool available for reducing the number of trees in the world. But it doesn’t sync with iCloud, and anything written on it is not searchable. Luckily, there’s an easy way out of this dark age. You can scan all those clipped recipes, and those receipts, all those sheets and scraps you have laying around, and which annoy you until you ned one, at which point it disappears.
Shrink PDFs without losing quality for easy emailing, with ColorSync Utility | Cult of Mac
PDFs are fantastic. If you send somebody a PDF, you know it will look exactly the same on their computer as it does on yours. Same if you print it. But if your PDF contains a lot of images, it can quickly swell to an impractical size, making email impossible. Today we’re going to find out how to shrink that huge PDF dramatically, while making almost no difference in quality to the images therein.
Use Apple Pencil to mark up PDFs in Mail app | Cult of Mac
Today we’ll learn how to open and edit a PDF right in the iOS Mail app, and then send it on its way, all without opening any extra apps. Given that a lot of PDFs we receive are documents that need to be checked over, or signed, and then returned, this tip is a real time-saver. Instead of waiting until you get back to your Mac, you can take care of things right from your iPhone. On the Mac, we can view our PDFs in the native Preview app, but there’s no such thing on iOS.
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