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questions60 | MACFORMAT | SEPTEMBER 2019 macformat.com @macformatHow do I quickly
strip all of the
annotations
from a PDF?
> The only app we know
that’s brave enough to
offer this is PDF Expert
(£74.99, Mac App
Store). If annotations
contain text or other
material which is
sensitive and you don’t
want it to leak, though,
you should still be
extremely cautious, as
traces could be left
behind for those
determined enough
to find them.How do I copy
text from any
webpage in Safari?
> Some webpages
intentionally try to stop
you from being able to
select and copy their
text, and apply other
controls that you may
find unhelpful. One
Safari extension
which tackles these
restrictions with
remarkable aplomb is
StopTheMadness by
Jeffrey Johnson (£1.99,
Mac App Store). You'll
find a detailed list of
its features at
bit.ly/mfstmss.library for iCloud Photos. Unless your merged
library is so huge that isn’t practical, that will
leave Photos and iCloud to ensure they’re kept
in sync. This will take a long time for the first
syncs, but once they’re completed its only
demand is on iCloud storage cost.
Alternatively, make the Photos library
on your iMac the master, and then use My
Photo Stream over iCloud to sync between
that and a smaller library of current images
on your MacBook Pro. That won’t make older
images available to your MacBook Pro, of
course, but doesn’t require storage in iCloud,
nor large initial syncs. My Photo Stream has
a maximum monthly upload rate of 25,000
photos, but doesn’t update edited images.
Apple explains My Photo Stream at
bit.ly/mfmphotos and the differences between
it and iCloud Photos at http://bit.ly/mficpmps.Sharing a Photos library
My Photo Stream offers a simpler alternative
to sharing recent images using iCloud Photos,
and is easily set up in Photos.Q
I don’t keep my Photos library in
iCloud, and have ended up with
different libraries on my iMac
and MacBook Pro. What’s the best way
to keep them in sync?
by JOHN FRANCISA
If you were only ever to use your
Macs when they’re connected to one
local network, and never at the same
time, you could possibly keep your images in a
single Photos library on a shared disk, such as
on networked storage. However, the moment
that you wanted to access Photos away from
that, on your MacBook Pro, you’d end up
having to create another Photos library for it,
and then face problems keeping them in sync.
The simplest solution is to merge your
existing libraries into one, then set that as the