[ale] Still no flames... :-)

[Jim Popovitch]

On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 17:16 -0400, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 16:36 +0000, aaron wrote:
> 
> > Actually, as I understand the workings of OSeX, even if the application isn't 
> > directly supporting PDF, every aspect of the display system and user 
> > interface will be!  :-)  Quite literally, everything one sees on a Mac OSeX 
> > screen is rendered PDF.
> 
> I thought it was native postscript. 

It's a subset of ps.

> PDF is basically compressed postscript. So the decompression for each 
> screen update would explain the lag time on a Mac ?! <ducks for the 
> flame-proof underwear>

:-)

-Jim P.