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  • Native PDF support- bad idea. (was: What offline iOS app tells you..)

    From Nomen Nescio@21:1/5 to All on Wed Aug 24 23:24:49 2016
    PDF is an integral part of Quartz, the OS X display service (so of
    *course* it's included in every installation). In this context,
    "native" means the entire display system is built upon it, as this
    old article from Ars Technica describes:

    <http://arstechnica.com/apple/2000/01/macos-x-gui/4/>

    I hope no one thinks that's a good idea. If you do, I suggest hearing
    Julia Wolf's PDF talk at the 27th Chaos Communication Congress in
    December 2010 in Berlin (youtube vid _l6eaiBIQH8k).

    On Linux and Windows, PDF is *much* more of an afterthought. I
    believe that is the point.

    Sandboxing PDF (or not having PDF) is a forward-thinking good idea.
    Integrating it into the OS is a rock-stupid idea. If not integrating
    PDF into the OS was really an "afterthought", then they unwittingly
    took the street-wise path.

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