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23 Feb 2014
The Only Cool Thing About PDF
Wolf Rentzsch tries to keep up with Andrew “The Joneses” Pontious and introduces JRPDFLabel, his new…innovative project that allow you to use custom fonts in Interface Builder without having to bundle the entire font with your Mac app.
Links:
- Compliment.app: automatically donate to the Mac apps you use everyday
- Flattry Will Get You Everywhere « Edge Cases
- rentzsch/JRPDFLabel « GitHub
- rentzsch/xib2pdflabels « GitHub
- PDF Kit Programming Guide: Introduction to PDF Kit Programming Guide « developer.apple.com
- Mac Software for Humans « Fortunate Bear
- Most Fortunate Bear Products Discontinued « Safe from the Losing Fight
- A Postmortem of Failed Products « Safe from the Losing Fight
- Pagehand 1.0 « Macworld
- Andy Finnell tweet: “@rentzsch High level: gen standard pdf data, then append obj of type stream http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Document_Format#File_structure …”
- Andy Finnell tweet: “@rentzsch The gen you’d do with the Cocoa/Quartz. The rest you do by hand with NSString/NSData. Email me. I’ll send the code. Not that bad.”
- Portable Document Format, File structure « Wikipedia
- Google Fonts « Google
- Convert woff to ttf « Everything Fonts
- MoarFonts « Pitaya
- yak shaving « Wiktionary
Rejected Episode Titles:
- A Lot of Extra Work for Something Not Very Interesting
- Turtles All the Way Down
- You Still Have Plenty of Surprises Left for Me, Wolf
- Not as Cool as Dragging Entities into a Window
- Really? The Kids Are Calling It That?
- We Call Them Sorcerers
- Reinventing NSControl
- I Wouldn’t Call It a Monstrosity
- “Can I Call It a Monstrosity?” “Sure!”
- I Had Not Been Finished Expressing the Horror
- This Is High-Quality Stuff
- I’m Not a Lawyer, but That’s My Understanding
- Oh, You’re Doomed, All Right
- The Equivalent of Flash Cookies in Your PDF
- It’s Not That Bad
- The Quote-Unquote Simple Thing That I Really Wanted to Do
- Andy’s Being a Great Guy
- Your First Diabolical Idea?
- Ohhh, I Know Where This Is Going…Oh God…
- It’s Kind of Like Journaling
- Did You Open It in Acrobat?
- Or God Help You, Your Bots
- Already Used to a Certain Amount of Pain
- It’s Kinda Sketch
- Including Yourself, but Now You’re Invisible
- You Sound Pretty Self-Satisfied About That
- You, Apparently, Want to Mess with It
- Probably Not Very High Quality…At Least It’s Free
- Did You Use “Wolf Dingbats”?
- You Should Ignore All of This
- Like a Big Stupid Head
- Everyone Already Has Comic Sans
- iOS Also Has a Studly PDF Rendering
- I Have Too Much to Live For
- Thanks for Showing Us Your Yaks, Wolf