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Robust printer support and color management. Which at the time would have been super super duper important for the just-hanging-in-there Mac user base. (I was
by perardi 5y ago
Robust printer support and color management.
Which at the time would have been super super duper important for the just-hanging-in-there Mac user base. (I was one of them. It was just hanging in there.)
The Mac’s professional niche was printing. Prepress. Big press runs. QuarkXPress. And BeOS could barely print, and had no color management to speak of.
- jonstewart 5y agoYeah, DisplayPostscript/DisplayPDF was a very big deal and upgrade with MacOS X right from the start. That’s an underrated advantage that NeXTStep brought to the table.
- rdsnsca 5y agoOnly the first server version of macOS X used DisplayPostscript, Apple replaced it with "quartz" . DisplayPDF. so they would not have to pay the license fee to Adobe.
- simondotau 5y agoCorrect. But it’s important to note that PDF is an evolution of the postscript language; it shares all of the same drawing primitives. In some respect it’s analogous to JavaScript and JSON. (Yes, postscript is a full scripting language.) It’s unlikely that Apple needed to strip much out of DisplayPostscript in order to rename it DisplayPDF (and then Quartz).