> PS/EPS were not native MacOS files until the infusion of NeXTSTEP code into MacOS in the form of OS X.
I agree it’s probably not a big deal, but let’s be fair here. That was 22 years ago. Classic MacOS was only around for 17 (1984-2001).
It’s a native format for macOS starting in 10.0 and prior to that an extra native format for NeXT starting in 1989 - when the macOS lineage began (note the lowercase ‘m’)
NextStep licensed Adobe's Display PostScript for it's graphics subsystem, but when MacOS was developed Apple replaced Display PostScript with an in house implementation of the open PDF spec that they called Quartz 2D.
> Quartz 2D is available to all macOS and iOS application environments and provides resolution-independent and device-independent rendering of bitmap graphics, text, and vectors both on-screen and in preparation for printing.
The drawing model utilized by Quartz 2D is based on PDF specification 1.4.
I agree it’s probably not a big deal, but let’s be fair here. That was 22 years ago. Classic MacOS was only around for 17 (1984-2001).
It’s a native format for macOS starting in 10.0 and prior to that an extra native format for NeXT starting in 1989 - when the macOS lineage began (note the lowercase ‘m’)