I just got a new mac with sequoia 15.7. Coming from a late 2012 mini, high sierra.
This new OSX is incomprehensible the things it does or rather doesn't do. Thing I'm about to chew through a steel bar is with textedit.
It's default is black background/white text. Don't like that so I change to white/black. Rich Text mode.
I'm typing away, looks that way on screen. I go to print it out....blank page. Printer preview shows pages as blank too.
I do change background/text color a thousand times to make sure. Still prints blank. I do notice however that the icon on my desktop for the file shows as black background color, even though I've been saving all along white bkgnd/black text.
So I bring the file over to my 2012 mini. It opens as black bkgnd/white text. In 123, I change the colors. NOW it'll print. I also saved the text file as PDF.
I take both back over to the new mac. That text file has reverted to want to print blank, even though it shows on screen as white bkgnd/ black text. Plus, it's icon shows same as the original... black/white.
However, the pdf I made DOES show properly and will print.
Never had anything like this with textedit previously. Only thing I'd futz with is text size. Everything just worked as expected
This is doing my head in. WTF is going on here??? I could finish what I'm doing on the new mac, then bring it to the mini, PROPERLY reverse background and text and print from there, or, make it a pdf and print from new mac. But that's a kludge.
How do I get textedit to work on new machine?
This new OSX is incomprehensible the things it does or rather doesn't do. Thing I'm about to chew through a steel bar is with textedit.
It's default is black background/white text. Don't like that so I change to white/black. Rich Text mode.
I'm typing away, looks that way on screen. I go to print it out....blank page. Printer preview shows pages as blank too.
I do change background/text color a thousand times to make sure. Still prints blank. I do notice however that the icon on my desktop for the file shows as black background color, even though I've been saving all along white bkgnd/black text.
So I bring the file over to my 2012 mini. It opens as black bkgnd/white text. In 123, I change the colors. NOW it'll print. I also saved the text file as PDF.
I take both back over to the new mac. That text file has reverted to want to print blank, even though it shows on screen as white bkgnd/ black text. Plus, it's icon shows same as the original... black/white.
However, the pdf I made DOES show properly and will print.
Never had anything like this with textedit previously. Only thing I'd futz with is text size. Everything just worked as expected
This is doing my head in. WTF is going on here??? I could finish what I'm doing on the new mac, then bring it to the mini, PROPERLY reverse background and text and print from there, or, make it a pdf and print from new mac. But that's a kludge.
How do I get textedit to work on new machine?
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