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saagarjha
on Dec 9, 2022
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How PostScript kickstarted desktop publishing
Kind of sad to see PostScript slowly fade away these days. My Mac won’t even open .ps files anymore! The entire graphics stack was designed around it and they removed viewer support for it…
randomdata
on Dec 9, 2022
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> The entire graphics stack was designed around it and they removed viewer support for it…
NeXTSTEP was built on Display Postscript, but macOS's graphic system is modelled after PDF.
gpvos
on Dec 10, 2022
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The graphics model of PS and PDF is essentially the same.
randomdata
on Dec 12, 2022
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Essentially, except (D)PS is executable. Quartz is not built around that model.
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