The default lesson name in MacSnapper is “My Lesson”. Open a Terminal.app and type the following to change the initial lesson name:
defaults write com.kedisoft.MacSnapper CSInitialLessonName "Lesson"
Instead of “Lesson” type what you want to use as initial lesson name.
Today I want to write about Cocoa Mac Programmers. To become a cocoa programmer today and coding for mac only as your primary job is a very risky action. To do that, you must love mac and never look back to PCs (like me).
There are lot of people developing windows software out there. That’s okay. However, I don’t like the idea “Hey, there are also some mac users out there. Why not port our windows software to the mac?”. I can hear you asking “What’s wrong? We are familiar with these situations and very thankful that developers are porting their windows applications to mac”.
Well, let me explain it. First of all, mac has a clean user interface and a powerful framework called Cocoa. Why to settle for using only features that are only available on windows and mac systems together and leave the wonderful mac features out? (Here I have to exclude some professional applications like Adobe CS4 and Mac Office because they don’t base on third party cross platform user interface libraries. Instead they are using Carbon and Cocoa, too)
The second problem is that you will never be able to use something better then windows applications. I’m not a radical anti-windows-user/developer, nevertheless, I think that mac users must ask for software that are not portable to windows platforms because of the usage of some very nice features integrated in leopard frameworks only .
To say that running the same application on both, windows AND mac is a benefit for the user is in my opinion, in many cases, nothing else marketing.
Now it is time to introduce MacSnapper, our annotation and documentation utility for Mac OS X Leopard. With a focus on ease-of-use, MacSnapper was developed specifically for creating step-by-step tutorials, manuals, kiosks, user guides or even personal notes. MacSnapper will organize everything necessary to describe a project. Screenshots may be taken directly from the application, or images may be easily imported.
Once a tutorial, manual, kiosk, or user guide (even personal notes) has been created, MacSnapper will faithfully export the lesson as a PDF, HTML web pages, or ever a WordPress blog. MacSnapper facilitates the creation of visual, detailed lessons in no time at all.
Finally I have finished the tutorials about creating MacSnapper templates. You can read now the tutorial about creating PDF templates if you want to design your own PDF template.
Since the article is based on creating HTML templates I suggest to read it first.
If you want me to add your template to the MacSnapper application bundle, just drop me an email. Contributions are always welcome.
After a long time with only rarely updates, here comes the update 3.0.9. It contains CSV updates for invoices and customers and some bugfixes. It is recommended for all Invoice 3 users.
The next update could be 3.1 with many improvements that are focused on performances problems.
I have published a short tutorial about designing templates for MacSnapper.
It would be nice to get some feedback.
