[lug] New to the scene of RPM building.

Michael D. Hirsch mhirsch at nubridges.com
Fri Jul 23 15:00:01 MDT 2004


On Friday 23 July 2004 02:32 pm, Nate Duehr wrote:
> On Jul 21, 2004, at 2:58 PM, Michael J. Hammel wrote:
> > Again, thanks for the screenshots - especially for sending one shot of
> > each page in PDF format!  That made it easy to review.
>
> Heh, well... that's the standard built-in screenshot method in OSX.
>
> It's so nicely thought out... amazing all the nice little details you
> can tell the Apple folks really THOUGHT about... to paraphrase the
> Guinness commercial:  PDF's for Screen Shots!  BRILLIANT!!

I would guess that comes for free (or at least cheap) from using postscript as 
the display language.  A typical X or Windows window is a bitmap, but a MacOS 
X window is postscript.  Assuming that they can tap into that, generating a 
pdf is probably easier than getting a png file.

Michael



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