9 Aug
2012
9 Aug
'12
8:13 p.m.
On 09/08/12 1:21 PM, Richard wrote:
...
Even the X11 Display PostScript extension wasn't used much by applications
except for some niche markets like desktop publishing. The benefits
are too few for most applications. NeXTStep includes Display
Postscript under the covers, but I don't think actual applications
really used it -- they used the objects in the UI framework instead.
Mathematica and Adobe Illustrator (both flagship applications on
NEXTSTEP) must have used Display PostScript primitives.
Mathematica in particular had a very sophisticated PostScript generator
honed on the Macintosh and other front-ends. It's possible that
Illustrator could have reused its portable rasteriser (such as the one
they launched on Macintosh for v 1.0) but I kind of doubt it. Be nice if
someone who actually knows could tell us :)
Those objects could just have easily implemented their
rendering with
X11 and probably noone except the most ardent of typographical
rendering freaks would have noticed the difference.
And wait for somebody to scan the NeWS binder (I have it) :)
--Toby
NeWS is one of those things that is in my
"interested to find more
out about, but probably not interested in programming" because of the
additional PostScript layer on top. Did they have any IDEs to help with
that?
No IDE support. If you want to get a feel for what it's like to
program in NeWS, just start playing around with PostScript. NeWS is a
very thin veneer on top of PS.