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Only 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
by rdsnsca 5y ago
Only 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).