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questions60 | MACFORMAT | APRIL 2020 macformat.com @macformatHow to create
‘accessible’ PDF
documents?
> For full accessibility,
PDF should be tagged
in reading order, have
text descriptions for
graphics, and more.
Tagging docs currently
only appears to be
supported by the Pro
version of Adobe
Acrobat CC, which can
generate documents to
the PDF/UA standard.How to fix
Pulp’s mirror
text in Catalina?
> The newsreader Pulp
is one of a few apps
with graphics problems
in Catalina: text is
displayed upside down,
and in ‘mirror’ writing.
Probably due to an
incompatibility with
Metal graphics
configurations. You
can’t change this, and it
doesn’t vanish after
you’ve restarted. You’ll
need to replace the app.The only reliable way to ensure images are
maintained in a set order is to put them in an
Album, and order them there. That doesn’t
always work properly, though, due to bugs
in the current version of Photos.
Some other apps which can be used to
build collections of images, GraphicConverter
for example, respect file order determined
by file names, but GraphicConverter isn’t
designed to work with large image libraries
in the way that Photos does.
For larger and more demanding projects
like yours, look at a professional app such as
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, which has many
other features that you might find useful. At
the high end, there are costly Digital Asset
Management systems like Extensis Portfolio,
which are even better for working intensively
with very large image libraries. Photos is
better-suited to holiday and social snaps.Putting Photos in order
Q
I’m scanning in hundreds of old
prints to store in Photos. I’ve been
naming each image in sequence,
but Photos doesn’t respect their order,
showing them more randomly. How can
I get them to stay in order?
by NICK COOKA
As far as we can tell, and it isn’t clear
from Apple’s documentation, Photos
lists images in its main pool in the
order in which they were originally imported.
Although this might suggest that giving each
image to be imported a file name which is
ordered by the Finder in a particular way,
that’s not the order in which Photos will
import a folder of images.
Not only that, but to gain speed, the app
will try importing images in parallel, making
the order appear random.Photos only gives control over
the order of images when
they’re in Albums, and even
then doesn’t always remember.