“Apple’s latest desktop operating system won’t officially be released until sometime this fall. But now that the public beta of OS X Yosemite is open, both developers and a large number of Mac owners are able to preview the new OS.,” Christina Bonnington reports for Wired.
“In this edition, we take on the new features in the beta version of Apple’s native email client, Mail,” Bonnington reports. “Apple left the Mail interface largely alone, just tweaking its colors, textures, and fonts to match the rest of Yosemite.”
“One of the first new features I wanted to check out in Yosemite’s Mail app was Markup. As I anticipated, the ability to markup photos and documents right in the Mail environment was not only handy, it was kind of fun,” Bonnington reports. “You can also use this feature to sign PDFs and documents within Mail, which means (hallelujah!) you don’t need to wrangle a web or third party PDF editor just to scribble your digital signature onto a form.”
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Bonnington reports. “You can also use this feature to sign PDFs and documents within Mail, which means (hallelujah!) you don’t need to wrangle a web or third party PDF editor just to scribble your digital signature onto a form.”
Preview allows creation of a digital signature and can add it to PDFs.
That’s what I was thinking. It’s a little bit of wrangling to set up for the average user but seems to work pretty easily after that. Still would be nice if this was more easy to work with in any app that can read PDFs (Preview, Mail, etc.).
This method is meant to replace Preview’s digital signature functionality.
Hopefully that means it’s a system-wide change and doesn’t require a PDF be attached to an email.
It’s discussed in the WWDC keynote.
Just use Outlook and live big. MSFT mastered the Mail/Contact/Calendar/Reminder tools. Outlook is a great CRM tool. Forget Mail…
Can’t Remember, Microsoft.
as you know Microsoft is dead – using outdated software on dated machines is not for the future (but corporate America chose to deal this way and why so many businesses are stuck on WIn7 and slow machines – and also Outlook and Entourage were filled with bugs both on Windows and OS9 and OSX – far more buggy on a Mac which was intentionally programmed to be second grade software to the Macintosh community – heavens forbid anyone forgets this – and a lesson to note… but your humour is well taken – made me smile 🙂
Markup doesn’t seem to be working for me in the Public Beta, there is no drop down in the upper right corner of the pic.
Stopped using mail when Mavericks came out and hosed IMAP reliability. Then Cook decided not to try an more fixes after the v3 FAIL.
Too busy adding marginal channels to Airport.
Why has Apple allowed Jonny Ives to meddle with an OS that graphically stood out from the rest. The new crappy flat graphics look as though they come from a 16 bit computer of yesteryear. I hate Ives for all his minimalistic meddling.