[Gs-devel] ghostscript-7.0, and PDF files under MacOSX (Aqua)

Tom Kacvinsky tjk at ams.org
Thu Apr 26 07:48:36 PDT 2001


Hi,

On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, Bernd Heller wrote:
>
> I think Tom is right that only a subset of the PDF spec is implemented
> in Aqua. However, I cannot agree that it is not robust, I have not seen
> any problems with the Quartz engine yet (which does not mean that there
> aren't any, of course).
>

Depends on how one defines robust. I define robust as supporting the entire PDF
spec.  But, as we know Quartz only supports a subset of the PDF spec, perhaps we
ought to define robust as: for the feature supported, they are supported well.
If using theis latter definition, then yes, the Preview is robust.  If you use
my definition, then no, Previewer is not robust.

Tom





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