At the heart of the first Macs, its support for Regions was unique, and it could replay drawing instructions in a Picture, the basis of its PICT file format. Then came Mac OS X with Quartz.
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Metal provides low-level access to 3D graphics, rendering and compute features in GPUs. With the deprecation of OpenGL and OpenCL, it’s vital, especially for M1 Macs/
How to use Scapple (App Store) to construct diagrams with the minimum effort, and paying attention to their contents rather than formatting.
Why don’t some PDFs display properly outside Adobe software? Will PDFs ever become more accessible? And what to do when they get damaged?
A single character text can result in a PDF file with 160 lines. Mojave still generates PDF according to the 1999 standard. And why extracted text is all over the place.
I’ve been using PDFs for over 25 years, and have finally abandoned using Adobe’s software. Here’s a little history, and the first version of a new free PDF browser.
Drawing in a graphics view shouldn’t be as hard as it seems. And how making custom ToolTips is simple, when you know how.
I want an app which I can use to edit some logos, and to process my photos. Would Photoshop Elements do both?
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