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		GeneralMaximus on Aug 16, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: X Could Learn a Lot from Vista, Windows 7 Does anyone here know how OSX's Quartz handles stuff? Apple say it's "based on PDF technology". Does that mean my entire screen is a big PDF file?

jws on Aug 16, 2009 [–]

PDF was developed as the best small API rendering system from the decades of Postscript experience that preceded it.

The API and the way you think about drawing in OS X match the concepts of PDF. There is a "display PDF" ability, but down at the nuts and bolts level it is just similar concepts.

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