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QuickDraw GX was a replacement for the QuickDraw (QD) 2D graphics engine and Printing Manager inside the classic Mac OS.[1] Its underlying drawing platform was an object oriented, resolution-independent, retained mode system, making it much easier for programmers to perform common tasks (compared to the original QuickDraw). Additionally, GX added various curve-drawing commands that had been lacking from QD, as well as introducing TrueType as its basic font system.[2]
While GX addressed many of the problems that QD had, by the time it was made available, most developers had already developed their own solutions to these problems. GX also suffered from causing a number of incompatibilities in existing programs, notably those that had developed their own QD extensions. This, coupled with opposition from an important fraction of the developer market, especially PostScript owner Adobe, and a lack of communication from Apple about the benefits of GX and why users should adopt it, led to the technology being sidelined.
QuickDraw GX saw little development after its initial release and was formally "killed" with the purchase of NeXT and the eventual adoption of the Quartz imaging model in Mac OS X. Many of its component features lived on and are now standard in the current Macintosh platform; TrueType GX in particular has become a broadly used modern standard in the form of OpenType Variable Fonts.
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QuickDrawGX was a replacement for the QuickDraw (QD) 2D graphics engine and Printing Manager inside the classic Mac OS. Its underlying drawing platform...
(PowerPC), QuickDraw remained largely unchanged throughout the rest of the life of the classic Mac OS. QuickDrawGX and QuickDraw 3D shared the QuickDraw name...
Folder or in the Extensions Folder. System 7.5 added the QuickDrawGX graphics engine. TrueType GX supported ligatures and other advanced typography features...
the QuickTime movie and image file formats as a localization-independent way of identifying standard folders in the Folder Manager in QuickDrawGX, they...
Newton font, based on Geneva Skia (1993 Matthew Carter), demonstration of QuickDrawGX typography in the style of inscriptions from antiquity. Still installed...
complex features for typographers, a successor to Apple's little-used QuickDrawGX font technology of the mid-1990s. It is a set of extensions to the TrueType...
and "Apple Extras" folders including: AppleScript, Disk Copy, QuickDrawGX Extras and QuickTime Movie Player. More optional extras and utilities can be...
ColorSync implemented different colour-matching methods as components. QuickDrawGX "font scalers" were renderers for the different font formats. Weinstein...
promise a reality". Monotype. 28 February 2017. "This Is Your Text on QuickDrawGX" (PDF). Macworld. December 1994. p. 25. I got the impression that developers...
glyphs per second. GDI+ is similar (in purpose and structure) to Apple's QuickDrawGX subsystem, and the open-source libart and Cairo libraries. In Windows...
Macintosh platform. It requires Snow Leopard, or System 7.5-7.6 with QuickDrawGX installed to render correctly, and is the only functional Nasta'liq font...
TrueType with the launch of TrueType GX in 1994, with additional tables in the sfnt which formed part of QuickDrawGX. This offered powerful extensions in...
10, 2014. Retrieved July 29, 2014. Ean Houts (1994-09-05). "QuickDrawGX is the big draw for System 7.5". InfoWorld. Archived from the original on 2021-10-20...
9 and above and OS X El Capitan and above) Segoe UI Skia (the first QuickDrawGX font, still found in macOS today) Source Sans Pro SST* Sweden Sans Syntax...
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do little to address this, and AOCE and the other Apple technology, QuickDrawGX, typically could not be run together because of a lack of memory. While...
files, as well as other Mac OS built-in formats like QuickdrawGX and QTIF, 3DMF and even QuickTime movies. SimpleText can even record short sound samples...
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