The offcial journal of the Wellington Society Inc Volume 35.10 – October 2018

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Wellington Monday, 29 October 7.15pm - 9.30pm Subject: macOS Mojave (10.14) Kapiti Monday, 5 November 7.10pm - 9.30pm Subject: macOS Mojave, new products Apple have another special media event coming up, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York. If you want to watch iPad Group* the keynote live, in NZ time it starts at 3 AM on Wednesday 31 Saturday, 27 October 1.30pm - 3.30pm October. It should be available for delayed viewing by 6 AM. Kapiti The creative theme and artwork suggests drawing in Help Desk* particular: a new iPad Pro seems very likely to be announced, Saturday, 17 November and perhaps a new . 1 pm - 4 pm Kapiti Maybe even some updated Mac models? See page 2 for more details of meetings *Please register by emailing [email protected] Where to find us Unless otherwise indicated, main meetings are normally as follows. Wellington: last Monday of the month (except December) at Brian Davis Room, Cathedral of St Paul, corner Hill St and Molesworth St, Wellington. Kapiti: first Monday of the month (except January) at Kapiti Uniting Parish, Weka Road, Raumati. Help desks and other special interest meetings vary.

The President Writes p2 Autocorrect — macOS p7 INSIDE Mac keyboard shortcuts p4 Editing iPhone Movies in iMovie p7 Making the most of Preview p5 Committee Contact Details p8

CAPITAL APPLE – OCTOBER 2018 PAGE !1 The president writes ...

Kapiti Help Desk The final help desk for the year will be held from 1 pm to 4 pm on Saturday 17 November at the Kapiti Uniting Parish, 27 Raumati Rd. The help desk is an opportunity to get assistance with any topic you would like to cover, assuming we can find a tutor who can help you. We can often David Empson arrange one on one tuition, but sometimes need to [email protected] organise people into small groups if we have several people wanting to cover the same topics Hi folks. and not enough tutors to go around. Topics can range from basic use of the Macintosh Wellington Meeting or iPad through general technical assistance to Our main meeting in Wellington will be held on specific help with some advanced software. Monday 29 October in the Brian Davis Room at Registration is required, and space is more Wellington Cathedral of St Paul, corner Hill St and limited than usual, so get your booking in early. Molesworth St, Wellington, from 7.15pm. To register, please email Shane Gordine at The meeting will start with a Q&A session for [email protected]. Please include details about those who have any technical issues. It would be what you would like help with, and tell us what appreciated if questions could be emailed in computer or other devices you would like to bring. advance to [email protected] so we can plan ahead. Following Q&A we will have a light Apple News supper then the main topic. The main topic is a first look at macOS Mojave Apple have announced a “There’s more in the (10.14) including new features, compatibility issues making” media event which in NZ time will run and stability. from 3 AM to about 5 AM on Wednesday 31 October. Kapiti Meeting I’ll send out my usual email summary of The Kapiti meeting will be held on Monday 5 announcements and NZ-specific details as soon as I November at the Kapiti Uniting Parish, 10 Weka am able to gather information and write it up after Rd, Raumati, from 7:10 pm. the event. Due to timing relative to WelMac The meeting topic will be the same as the meetings, we will not be able to cover the Wellington meeting: macOS Mojave 10.14. We can announcements at this month's Wellington meeting also spend a little time talking about (Monday 29 October), but can discuss them at the announcements from Apple’s event on 31 October. Kapiti meeting in early November. We can also We’ll have our usual supper at the end of the discuss the new products in Wellington at the end meeting, with time for technical questions. of November meeting. If you would like to receive e-mail The theme and venue (Brooklyn Academy of announcements about upcoming Kapiti meetings, Music in New York) suggest content creation is a please contact Don Niccol [email protected]. major theme. It is very likely this event will include release of the next iPad Pro models, perhaps also a Kapiti iPad/iPhone Group rumoured Apple Pencil update. We will be running the last iPad/iPhone group Other product updates are possible, including meeting of the year at a member’s house in Kapiti several Mac models, either announced at the event from 1:30 to 3:30 on Saturday 27 October, to cover or with press releases afterwards. iOS 12 questions. If you would like to attend, please contact Shane Gordine [email protected]. continued over page

CAPITAL APPLE – OCTOBER 2018 PAGE !2 New product releases will trigger a recalculation The new screenshots feature makes it easier to of NZ prices for almost all of Apple’s products, do a variety of screen shots, especially if you put which is likely to lead to price rises in the order of the Screenshot utility in your Dock. 5% to 10% on 31 October. The iPhone and Apple Software Updates are quite different: system Watch already had a price adjustment when new level updates have shifted out of App Store again models were announced last month, but the and are now done via a Software Update section in MacBook Pro and standard iPad are still being sold System Preferences. App Store itself has big at prices that were set before the recent decline in changes which I haven’t explored in detail yet. the NZ$ so are also at risk of price increases even without a new model. Mojave Application Compatibility The big problem I’ve run in to this time is iWork iOS 12 Status Report ’09. Pages 4.x does not work at all in Mojave: it fails https://www.apple.com/nz/ios to open any existing document. I was already Overall my initial experience with iOS 12 has having problems with Numbers 2.x and Keynote been almost perfect, but there are reports that some 5.x in High Sierra so I had stopped using them, but people have been encountering problems. Apple Pages was still working, until Mojave. has already released an iOS 12.0.1 update which For day to day use, the latest Pages, Numbers fixed a few bugs. A more significant iOS 12.1 and Keynote are now an acceptable replacement update is in the works, probably due for release for my use, but some people might still be missing after the media event. some of the advanced features of the iWork ’09 I’ve run into two minor issues since upgrading versions, such as Mail Merge. to iOS 12: the stuff.co.nz web site has been stalling For occasional use of the old versions I had been during load (workaround is to force quit Safari), intending to keep access to them via a virtual and I’ve noticed Music playlists jumping back to machine running an older macOS version, but I’ve the beginning rather than resuming where they found that method won’t work due to limits in were last paused. graphics capabilities for guest macOS systems (for all virtualisation software). macOS 10.14 Mojave Status Report My new plan is to keep the old versions running https://www.apple.com/nz/macos/ on a spare Mac at home, which will need to be I’m not running macOS Mojave 10.14 full time running an older OS X version. yet but I have been doing testing of key A few other old applications I’ve tried seem to applications using a clone of my main system. be working fine in Mojave (e.g. Microsoft Office The first problem I ran into was the increase in 2008), but the system now warns you every month minimum system requirements: Mojave needs a when you launch a 32-bit application. Mojave is the 2012 or later Mac, or a 2010/2012 with the last macOS version which will run 32-bit right video card. My second MacBook Pro is a 2011 applications at all, so you need to be planning to model which is too old. I’ve since acquired a find replacements for old software if you intend to second hand 2014 on which I’ve been keep your macOS reasonably up to date or buy a running pre-release versions to get familiar with new Mac. the changes. There are new security features in Mojave which In general operation, Mojave is very similar to mean some applications and utilities need to be High Sierra and other recent macOS versions. granted new permissions to access files in new There are some optional new features such as protected areas, or to control other applications. It “dark mode”, stacks of related icons on the definitely helps if you get Mojave-compatible desktop, and the Dock showing icons for a few utility and application updates where possible recently used applications. before upgrading to Mojave. There are noticeable differences in Finder with gallery view to get a decent sized preview of a file, That’s all, folks! David Empson and quick actions in the preview sidebar to do markup or other simple tasks without needing to To contact me, email [email protected], or you open the document in an application. can ring me at home (976 9755)

CAPITAL APPLE – OCTOBER 2018 PAGE !3 Mac keyboard shortcuts by Susan Jensen

By pressing certain key combinations, you can do things that normally need a mouse, trackpad, or other input device. To use a , press and hold one or more modifier keys and then press the last key of the shortcut. For example, to use Command-C (copy), press and hold the , then the C key, then release both keys. Mac menus and keyboards often use symbols for certain keys, including modifier keys:

Command (or Cmd) ⌘ Shift ⇧ Option (or Alt) ⌥ Control (or Ctrl) ⌃ ⇪ Fn

Some keys on some Apple keyboards have special symbols and functions, such as for display brightness.

What are those symbols shown in menus?

If you turn on Sticky Keys in Accessibility preferences, you see the Command, Shift, Option, and symbols on your screen when you press those keys. To open Accessibility preferences, choose Apple menu >System Preferences, then click Accessibility.

Editor’s Notes: If you do activate ‘Sticky Keys’ and select ‘Display pressed keys on screen’ you will see the symbols for Command, Shift, Alt, etc., when you press them. However, ‘Sticky Keys’ changes the way modifier keys work — you just press them, and don’t have to hold them.

CAPITAL APPLE – OCTOBER 2018 PAGE !4 Making the most of Preview

by Dick Johnson

We’re talking Preview for the Mac. Yes, in this article I’ve Amalgamating PDFs put my iPad and iPhone on the shelf and returned to my An excellent feature of Preview is its ability to combine old faithful 5K Retina Mac where I spend so much time pages of different PDFs into completely new documents. and from which I receive so much personal enjoyment. In my daily work I frequently have the need to join PDFs After all, when you have grey hairs surely you’re together and to chop off blank pages at the ends of PDFs allowed to spend some time having fun. But enough of that come with blank pages, such as those that come this banter and let’s on with the show. with bank statements through email. Editor's Note: Readers may assume the article refers to a Figure 2 shows a multipage PDF from one of my old 'current version' of Preview. files. I have deliberately zoomed out so that you can see Preview would have to be the computer equivalent of that there is more than a single page. Actually there are the Swiss Army Knife. It was a great tool from the seven. Now to play with this PDF, by removing pages moment Apple first introduced it, but with the iterations from the PDF, or adding pages from another, or to of time the number of tasks it performs has increased, reorder the pages, you need to display thumbnails in the and it does them all very well. I find it to be my constant sidebar. Figure 2 shows a PDF on display without companion and rarely do I have a day in front of the Mac thumbnails, together with the menu call View>Hide when I don’t have need to access it. Sidebar that conceals it. By making the menu call View>Thumbnails, the sidebar is displayed with the Viewing Files thumbnails in it. You can use the mouse to click on Preview is designed to look at a wide range of file types, individual pages in the sidebar and move them about so the most obvious of which is the jpeg, the digital that the PDF is completely reordered. The page you are photograph. But it will also allow you to look at a Pages working with at any one time is identified with its order document and a screenshot (extension .png), which you number illuminated in blue. To delete a page, click on the can pull directly off your Mac screen using Cmd-Shift-3 page to be removed and perform the menu call (entire screen) or Cmd-Shift-4 (describe the desired clip Edit>Delete. with the crosshairs). One really important function of Preview is that you can use it to view .pdf (portable document format) files . In writing this article I put myself to the trouble of viewing the file in Preview by summoning it using the Preview menu call File>Open Recent>... .You can see from Figure 1 that files with extensions .jpg, .png, .pdf and .pages are all valid candidates that can be viewed using Preview. Excel files with extension .xlsx, Word files with extension .doc or .docx, PowerPoint files with extension .pps will work, and Keynote files with extension .key will work. However Numbers files with extension .numbers, will not work, which is a little amusing as all the Microsoft Office files can be viewed with Preview, yet the iWork files from Numbers can’t. Further, Apple written text files with extension .txt won’t work either. Editor's Note: On my Mac Preview will view files I created with the extension .numbers. It is possible it will not view .numbers files created with earlier versions of Numbers

Fig.1 – Opening files via Preview menu call. Fig.2 - Multipage PDF without thumbnails Note .jpeg, .png, .pdf and .pages possible continued over page

CAPITAL APPLE – OCTOBER 2018 PAGE !5 Now we introduce a second PDF, some old bank statement from the forgotten past. It has a page of advertising (Fig.3). Drag its thumbnail to the thumbnails of the first PDF and position it to where you want it to be (Fig.4). Now look at the altered PDF, which now contains the page of bank advertising between the pages of text.

Fig.4 - Thumbnail dragged from PDF1 to PDF2 Because this format is quite marvellous – a permanent record independent of the computing platform (Mac, Windows, Ubuntu) and one that has proved so reliable that the courts have completely adopted it. Once the courts get hold of something you can be sure that we won’t be moving away from it any time soon. And the flexibility afforded by Preview makes PDFs all the more useful. For example, if I have a form to fill out, then my current approach is to scan the form to a PDF, if the PDF is not already available electronically from an email, and simply Fig.3 - Bank statement with thumbnails enter all the details required via text annotation, completing the form with a signature, which itself Annotating PDFs is an annotation. Some time ago, back in the days Do I seem to be spending a lot of time in this when fax machines were the backbone of inter- article on Preview, talking about PDFs? office communication, the courts interpreted a Well, yes and why? signature on a fax as valid for the purposes of the law. I have always thought this to be pretty stupid,

CAPITAL APPLE – OCTOBER 2018 PAGE !6 as you can photocopy a signature and apply it to a fax, and more recently to an email with minimal difficulty. The opportunities for fraud are immense, but in this day and age the most important thing is to speed communications, particularly financial transactions, as part of the overpowering need to offer tribute to Baal, oops ... I meant the economy. So how easy is it to add annotations to a PDF? I am going to use a page of plain text to make the point. Figure 5 shows how to select the shapes and the text from the menu bar using Tools and in Figure 7 I’ve let myself go and covered the whole page in annotations, including text. To alter the size of these shapes, just click on one of the outlying points and pull to expand, or push to contract.

Fig.7 - Using annotation tools to add shapes, circles, arrows, lines and text to a PDF

Fig.5 - Use the Tools menu to add shapes, lines, arrows and text to a PDF Autocorrect — macOS For other effects you have to go to the menu by Pam Doughty bar that attaches itself to each PDF once you have Customize Autocorrect Settings begun adding shapes or text (Fig.6). The autocorrect settings that you have set up under System Preferences > Keyboard > Text apply across macOS. Did you know that you can override those for Fig.6 - Shape and text menu bar controls each iWork app from Preferences > Auto- Correction? Yes, Pages, Numbers, and Keynote’s Editing iPhone Movies in iMovie Preferences each have a special tab with several A number of members have indicated a desire autocorrect settings you can alter to suit your to have a session or two on editing movies taken needs. on using iMovie. If you are interested in Apart from having custom settings for attending such a session, please send an email formatting and spelling, you have custom lists to: [email protected] . for text replacement.

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