PDF and Panther: The Hidden Role of PDF in Mac OS X 10.3

Features: Written by Bernd Zipper Peter Kleinheider on April 29, 2004

Apple's Mac OS X makes broad use of Adobe's PDF technology. It is the first example to date of an operating system that contains an actual Adobe Normalizer embedded as a system component. A careful analysis shows that Apple hasn't yet delivered on the exciting promise of an operating system built around PDF.