![]() A detailed PDF manual is included in the package. Additionally, a real-time apps connections monitor allows you to check all network activities of your Mac. Should an authorized app be modified, hacked or tampered with, Scudo will notify it an block it. Because of that you are always sure that only genuine apps are allowed to connect. Scudo uses a new technology to identify processes and apps: signature fingerprint. Everything is controlled in a single window, its usage is really simple and safe. Scudo helps protecting your Mac’s network services from unwanted connections from remote computers and improves your privacy and security controlling all apps network activities, allowing you to choose which app is allowed to connect to the network. If you want to create books with absolutely zero effort aside from what you need to write it, then Vellum is definitely worth a look.Scudo is a hybrid firewall for macOS that combines an inbound network-layer packet filter with an outbound application-layer firewall. Nothing there is a deal breaker, which is why I’ve been using the app for years. What would be great if you could save these setups and then select one when it comes time to generate the book. You can only have one set of options for generating your books (page size, book styles, type of output etc.). Yup, I sort of made that up, but it sort of ties in with the last point. Why would you need to do this? Well, you might want to send a few chapters as an agent submission, or perhaps you might want to submit a handful of pages to your writer’s group. ![]() Right now, producing your ePubs and PDFs for print is an all-or-nothing deal: you can’t select individual chapters or groups of chapters and just render those. I added AsciiDoc to the list because I’ve started using it a lot more in my day job and I find it a lot more expressive that MarkDown. Lots of apps such as IA Writer and Typora use Markdown as their native format, so it would be great if Vellum could read MD files in directly without having to faff around with converting it to. The guys who wrote Vellum used to work for Pixar for cripes sake, so if it was worth the effort then I’m sure it wouldn’t be beyond them. Apple has some neat tricks to make it easier to port iPad apps to the Mac, but I’m not sure they’ve got anything to lighten the load going the other way. Now, I can’t say how difficult it would be to get Vellum running on the iPadOS. Do folk write books on the iPhone? I’m not so sure they do. But I think that more people would write stories in it if they could write on the road. They probably use Scrivener and then export it as a word document then import that into Vellum. Yeah, okay, now I don’t think that many people write whole books in Vellum. So here’s is my list of wants for Vellum, based on nothing more than my own sense of entitlement (there’s a lot of it about after all). I’m not a believer in the one-stop-shop kind of an app, but Vellum is so easy to use and so well thought out, I find myself wondering what would it need so I could use it more. Vellum will space out your text to make sure all the pages are balanced without leaving those niggling single lines on a page before skipping off to the next chapter. ![]() Yes, I know that I can do the same thing in Word and Scrivener, but even Scrivener can’t deliver such a clean, well-dressed output without some fiddling afterwards. ![]() rtf) into it, or type your book straight in, and Vellum will churn out beautifully formatted ePubs for a handful of mobile platforms such as Apple Books, Amazon Kindle, along with PDFs that be dropped into CreateSpace or Ingram Spark. So for the uninitiated, Vellum is sort of like a word-processor … though not really. And yet it’s one of the few apps I wouldn’t be without, because when I do get round to using it, it saves be a bucketload of time and churns out professional quality results without me pulling out what little hair I have. It’s one of the most expensive apps I own (or rather license), and it’s the app that I probably use the least. I have a strange relationship with Vellum.
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