On 12/13/2010 12:33 AM, Mike S wrote:
At 05:48 PM 12/12/2010, Chuck Harris wrote...
Chris Albertson wrote:
PDF is the native display format used by the Mac.
No it isn't. Postscript is the standard internal language. It is also
the internal language of Windows, and Linux.
LOL. For someone who presumes to correct others, you should know that
*nix predates PostScript/pdf/etc. _Some_ Linux _documentation_ is in
encapsulated Postscript (which is different than .pdf), but that is in
no way a basis for a claim that it is "the standard internal language,"
which is wrong in many more ways than one.
Chris was correct in a way, since .pdf _is_ the native metafile format
for recent versions of the Mac OS. Of course, in Windows, it's .wmf
(Windows Metafile Format), not .pdf.
The closest to a _standard_ "internal display language" in current OSs
might be HTML or XML. .pdf and .wmf are both proprietary, and in no way
standards.
PDF is standardized in ISO 32000, hence no longer proprietary.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Document_Format
But I think this thread is off-topic and gone on long enough.
Cheers,
Magnus
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