main page   Information briefs • macos x server • macos x (client) • darwin • netboot   Installation reports • PHP 3 • PHP 4 (Zend) • MySQL • Python (coming soon)   Special Reports • Apple Media Event 10/99 new iMacs and MacOS 9 • 1999 wwdc keynote • Quick and Dirty MacOS X Server Installaion Guide   Articles   News Archive • 1999 • 1998 • RhapNet (coming soon)   Advertising info   Contact Us   About Us   Links   The Tweak List			Tweak List: Display PostScript You are most likely familiar with PostScript, which is a complex printing language devised by Adobe, and which is viewed by many professionals to be the best of the best. Display PostScript is the display counterpart to PostScript. Like QuickDraw or any other graphics display system, Display PostScript is a system which a computer uses to display anything (text, pictures, whatever...) on the screen. Like PostScript, DPS interprets complex descriptions of how certain elements should appear on the screen. Powerful features such as font metrics make PostScript and DPS well liked and respected by graphics professionals. And if a system running DPS uses a PostScript printer, you get true WYSIWYG printing. Due to the the complexity of PostScript, and by extension DPS, speed becomes a major hangup. Another hangup is the licensing fee that users must pay to Adobe to use the technology. While true WYSIWYG is perhaps worth a somewhat slower graphics system, Apple has decided (right or wrong) to not use DPS as the graphics display system for MacOS X.

 

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