I recall that NeXTStep and OpenStep, early predecessors of Mac OS X, employed PostScript as a display technology. Perhaps Adobe lost any intention that they might have had of porting or rebuilding when Apple moved from Adobe PostScript--which would have incurred royalties--to Adobe PDF, an open standard. Perhaps this is a conspiracy theory gone too far...
That theory has been thrown around before. Display Postscript had huge licensing fees, and Apple took advantage of Adobe opening up the PDF spec. However, Apple has apparently licensed the core engine of Acrobat Distiller in Panther. That's how Preview can convert and open EPS files in 10.3. So maybe they're making nice-nice a little more now?
What of AppleWorks 6's clip-art features? Pictures are accessed from http://awpicts.apple.com/, and although the thumbnails are in JPEG format, the art itself is in EPS.
Downloading a picture manually from the server can be done by any agent, despite the interesting notice on the URL above. The download, however, has schmutz before and after the EPS data; removing said schmutz yields a working EPS file that can be converted by Preview.
What, however, does the elderly, Carbon AppleWorks program use that makes the import so much faster than Preview's (Distiller-based, then) conversion?
I'm trying Font Book in Panther. I have some questions...
1. I created some collections, but I can only ADD fonts to these collections, I can't MOVE fonts to these collections. So, when I disable a font in collections this font is enabled in All Fonts Collection.
2. The fonts that I disabled keep in fonts folder. So, the speed of the OS will be the same, always...
It works just like iTunes. The ALL FONTS is the equivalent of your LIBRARY and the COLLECTIONS are the equivalent of the PLAYLISTS. When you put a font in a Collection, you aren't moving it to the Collection, just as you are not moving a song to a Playlist. You are simply saying that a font is part of that Collection. Any font can be in any number of Collections.
When you disable a font in a Collection, it is only disabled for that Collection. To disable it entirely, you need to disable it from your LIBRARY/ALL FONTS.
To delete a font, you delete form the ALL FONTS, which also deletes it from all the Collections. Deleting a font from a particular Collection only removes it from that collection, it does not delete it from the ALL FONTS/LIBRARY.
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Downloading a picture manually from the server can be done by any agent, despite the interesting notice on the URL above. The download, however, has schmutz before and after the EPS data; removing said schmutz yields a working EPS file that can be converted by Preview.
What, however, does the elderly, Carbon AppleWorks program use that makes the import so much faster than Preview's (Distiller-based, then) conversion?
I'm trying Font Book in Panther. I have some questions...
1. I created some collections, but I can only ADD fonts to these collections, I can't MOVE fonts to these collections. So, when I disable a font in collections this font is enabled in All Fonts Collection.
2. The fonts that I disabled keep in fonts folder. So, the speed of the OS will be the same, always...
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When you disable a font in a Collection, it is only disabled for that Collection. To disable it entirely, you need to disable it from your LIBRARY/ALL FONTS.
To delete a font, you delete form the ALL FONTS, which also deletes it from all the Collections. Deleting a font from a particular Collection only removes it from that collection, it does not delete it from the ALL FONTS/LIBRARY.