Re: [Fresco-devel] Re: Newbie confusion

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On Saturday 23 November 2002 20:50, M. Evans wrote:
> The only point I might discuss further is this notion of "outputting"
> to DisplayPDF.  I guess that is true, Fresco could do that.  However I
> was driving at another point altogether.  My curiosity was why Fresco
> re-invented resolution independent graphics given the existing choices
> (PDF, PS, others).  Maybe it had something to do with the legacy
> code bequeathed to Fresco from years past.  In that context, I
> wonder how Fresco's resolution-independent graphics system differs in
> capability from PS or PDF.

Two things: Neither PS nor PDF were developed with Displays in mind. Check 
GNUstep for the curious workarounds they need to take because of that to use 
hardware acceleration properly. Like converting curves to PS, pass that to 
the backend, convert it back to a curve and render that.

Another thing is that neither (Display) PS nor PDF support 3D graphics. Our 
system can.

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Gruss,
Tobias

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Tobias Hunger           The box said: 'Windows 95 or better'
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