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As far as I can tell, Apple's Core Graphic engine is in fact an implementation (in C) of Postcript. Warnock's legacy is truly foundational.
by herodotus 3y ago
As far as I can tell, Apple's Core Graphic engine is in fact an implementation (in C) of Postcript. Warnock's legacy is truly foundational.
- paradox460 3y agoNeXT used display PostScript as it's graphics language. When apple was working on OS X they wanted to continue, but we're worried about adobe licensing costs, and so ultimately went with PDF instead
- jdswain 3y agoCore Graphics is an implementation of the same imaging model as Postscript and is very close to PDF (and can easily be used to render PDF documents). With Display Postscript you could type in real Postscript commands into your C/Objective-C source file and it was pre-processed into actual code. defineps PSWGrayCircle( ) newpath 10.0 10.0 5.0 0.0 360.0 arc closepath 0.5 setgray fill endps And it could be called just like any other function, including with parameters.