Not being sufficiently famous to be allowed into the official Cask register, I’ve set up my own Tap — a source for the Brew macOS package manager.

The benefit of this approach is that whenever you run brew update, you’ll be told that there are new versions of my apps available, if that’s the case.

I’m current working to add more of my apps and utilities here to make updating more straightforward; in the meantime, you can always download apps from my website.

• ASCII
• imageprep
• MNU
• pdfmaker
• Squinter
• The Valley
• utitool

Don’t have Brew? Follow these instructions.

Add my Tap:

brew tap smittytone/homebrew-smittytone

Install a Cask:

brew install --cask pdfmaker

If you have already installed pdfnaker, say, you will probably see the error:

It seems there is already a Binary at '/usr/local/bin/pdfmaker'.

In this case, just remove the existing version using:

sudo rm /usr/local/bin/pdfmaker

and then re-install the Brew version, as above, to get the benefits of update tracking.

Brew users do this as a matter of course — periodically run:

brew update

If Brew indicates there’s a new version of, say, pdfmaker, then run:

brew cask upgrade pdfmaker