On Thursday, April 3, 2003, at 02:33 AM, Lee wrote:
I don't have a Mac, but I've heard that Mac OS X also has some special
relationship with the PDF. I had heard that anything that is drawn to
the
screen is actually in PDF. Is that true? If so, does that mean Stata
for Mac
can export graphs in PDF?
As Chinh replied, yes. In a broader sense, it is indeed the case that
_any_ Mac OS X native application (that is, one built specifically to
run on Mac OS, rather than adapted from the earlier Mac OS) -- code
word 'Cocoa' -- can save its output as a PDF directly, without any need
for Adobe Acrobat or other programs intervening. There is a 'Save as
PDF' button in the Print dialog in every Cocoa app. I don't know if it
is proper to say that the Mac is rendering PDF on screen, or using
Display PostScript (as does, e.g., Sun Solaris), but there is indeed a
'special relationship' between the OS and PDF format. This makes
producing stuff like course materials as easy as falling off a log, and
unlike something like WMF, is completely cross-platform compatible...
Kit
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