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Fixx

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  1. Activity Monitor does not display much useful information as OS is designed to assign ALL free memory to applications, and free it not until it is needed elsewhere. Thus part of the memory is assigned but contains only unnecessary data.

    Basically you would be just fine with Mac Mini 16GB RAM, or similar iMac. Apps you use are not too demanding. If you want be safe you could buy M1 Pro 32GB instead but I am not sure you would see much difference. I kinda wish next Mac Mini version would be M1/M2 Pro which might be my next upgrade.

  2. Once upon a time when computer generated images did not always produce antialiased images there was an application called JAG (Jaggies Are Gone). It did have a really good algorithm for smoothing jagged edges to smooth but sharp antialiased edges. I have not seen as good antialiasing solutions since.

    Have to say that demand for separate antialiasing solution is not so urgent nowadays.

  3. When I open in Apple Preview and copy paste to Mail window – lines paste without linebreaks, as long normal text, real paragraphs though are as they should. Text format as in original. That is like it should be, like original text.

    When I open in Adobe Reader and copy paste to Mail window – lines paste with linebreaks, real paragraphs as they are. No text formatting. 

    When I open in PDF Expert and copy paste to Mail window – lines paste without linebreaks, real paragraphs as they are. No text formatting. 

    No P line-ends anywhere. Try another PDF reader?

  4. When you paste an image to an existing document it appears as *image layer. It is essentially a self-contained object, which can be manipulated many ways without losing its image quality – final image is rendered only in export or print.

    If you need to manipulate pixels directly you have to *rasterize* the layer to a pixel layer. Cutting can be done after that.

  5. When you export to PNG you should get just what is visible in the file when you have it open. Layers and objects do not matter, they all convert to single pixel image. That 3840px x 3840pfile is without any compression 44,3 MB. 

    If you need to get smaller file and can accept lossy compression you can export to JPEG. It can compress noisy images but can introduce some artifacts to image.

    Of course you have to decide what the file is for and select file type, resolution and compression accordingly.

  6. You should get full mask when you enter quick mask – that is, you see rubylith red. When you drag across this with gradient tool it should give you gradient from "white" to "black" – that is "white" is no rubylith and "black" is full red rubylith. Gradient ends (nodes) show white and black. 

    I guess it is possible that grad tool has some other values than 0K and 100K but for me it works reliably. It has not always been that way with grad tool..

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