Adobe and Apple, is it all over

[steve harley]

they whom i call Scott Stevenson wrote:
> 
> On Oct 9, 2006, at 10:32 AM, steve harley wrote:
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>> with all the talk of Core Image, Quart Extreme and Motion, one might 
>> think so, but what about PDF and typography? these are fundamental OS 
>> features where Apple's technology has been puzzlingly weak
>>
> 
> Could you explain?

since Mac OS X came out, Quartz has only produced PDF version 1.3 
with a few 1.4 features mixed in; this means trouble when 
Quartz-based apps try to interoperate with PDF 1.5 or 1.6 (as can 
be reliably produced by Adobe apps)

it's also my understanding that Mac OS X does not fully support 
kerning and ligatures in the PostScript flavor of OpenType fonts; 
the font rendering caches still go corrupt often; and the code 
Apple licensed for rendering type is limited so that it cannot 
rasterize type at high resolution

at this level of technology if Apple were to compete with 
Photoshop, it would have to be for the portion of Photoshop's 
market that doesn't do publishing