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Subject:Re: The sky is starting to fall again From:David Neeley <dbneeley -at- gmail -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Wed, 27 Apr 2005 11:39:16 -0500
The NeXT system used Postscript for printing and screen rendering; OSX
uses PDF for both. As you are probably aware, PDF is a compressed
PostScript with a file wrapper. Thus, the screen rendering for NeXT
was referred to as "Display PostScript" while the rendering for OS X
is called "Display PDF".
I am not aware of how they do screen capture on OS X, however. Is it a
simple pixel grab, or is there a tool that can capture the PDF? If so,
that would seem to be a superior system for later reproduction.
David
On 4/27/05, Bill Swallow <techcommdood -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
> > Do you suppose MS knows that virtually all Linux printing is done
> > via PostScript?
> > Do you suppose MS knows that all OS X printing is done via
> > PostScript -- and all screen rendering, too?
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