Mars Edit supports Squarespace since version 2.4; they’re on version 5 now.
I wish Apple would cross platform native apps for Pages, Numbers and Keynote. At the very least lock step with Windows to counter Google.
No Squarespace has dropped support to the third-party tools more than a decade ago and it’s impossible for them to add Squarespace.
Sorry I led you wrong.
Any opinion regarding using a PDF app like Nitro PDF Pro? Is anything saved with this app even less likely than an Adobe PDF to be available down the road?
The two opposing sides to format are open and proprietary. The former format is freely in the public domain. The latter format is held by an agency, and access to it is typically only available for a fee.
The lack of tools to work with open standards is not part of the definition.
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JJW
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Preview has become all the PDF app I need. Apps like Nitro PDF Pro and Adobe Acrobat are far too expensive (what with subscriptions) for my needs, which are mainly archival and not editing.
That said, it probably is safe to save from Nitro PDF Pro, and if you aren’t sure you can always Print to PDF which uses Apple’s PDF code. It’s been around forever.
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The PDF format is open-source and has been since 2008. So long as the format continues to be supported, it shouldn’t matter which application you used to create, edit, or save a PDF file if you want to open and work with it in the future. The whole point of PDFs is to provide a document format that can be read and exchanged independent of operating system, application, or device.
There’s hardly an application on my Mac that can’t export a document as a PDF that anyone else can open and read. I think you can safely use whichever suits your needs and your budget.
Since Nitro PDF Pro comes with my SetApp subscription, I use it to do certain things that PDF Expert can’t do, or can’t do as easily—e.g., automatically creating form fields or deskewing pages. The reverse is true as well: I find PDF Expert much easier to use for editing or marking up PDFs.
I used PDF Expert back in the day. It had some rough edges at the time, and I switched to what is now Nitro PDF Pro via Setapp. I’m glad they have been improving PDF Expert. In the Apple App Store PDF Expert is $139.99 with in-app purchases. Seems expensive, but maybe I should try it. I work with PDFs a lot, but generally on simple things, scanning and OCR, sometimes doing markups.
Anyway, thanks for the good advice.
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if you’re comfortable with Nitro you may not need to spring for PDF Expert. I’m pretty sure there’s a free trial period, so you may want to give it a test drive first.