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So Long to PICT (6/10/98)
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Just a quickie here, as we wave goodbye to the venerable PICT image format, which is being supplanted as the native Mac OS image file format in Mac OS X. Instead, the native format will be Adobe's PDF, or Portable Document Format. MacWEEK has the story.

We certainly can't say much that's good about the PICT format. Only the Mac ever used it, really. Any PICTs you want to send to a non-Mac user generally need to be converted into a more widely-used format anyway. PDF is an interesting replacement, since Adobe's free Acrobat Reader application allows users of most platforms to view PDF's just fine. More importantly, though, PDF is resolution-independent, making it very well-suited for use in the publishing industry. This may give the Mac an added edge in retaining market share in the publishing industry.

But the really cool thing, of course, is that we look forward to taking screenshots with command-shift-3 and getting a PDF image instead of a PICT. We're not sure why.

 
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The above scene was taken from the 6/10/98 episode:

June 10, 1998: Uh oh, the same old Availability Problem rears its ugly head, this time affecting the PowerBook G3 Series. Meanwhile, Judge Jackson sets limits and deadlines in the ongoing "Redmond Justice" affair, and Apple decides to retire the venerable PICT format from its "native image format" post as of Mac OS X...

Other scenes from that episode:

  • 762: Same Old Song and Dance (6/10/98)   We hate to say it, but we're experiencing a serious frisson of déjà vu as we hear about Apple's continuing availability problems with the PowerBook G3 Series. While the 233 and 250 MHz models have been trickling into the channel here and there, it's the "config 6" models (292 MHz processor and 14.1" screen) that are still nothing but vapor...

  • 763: The Swift Hand of Justice (6/10/98)   So much for our plans to extend our "Redmond Justice" courtroom drama indefinitely into the future... It sounds like Judge Jackson wants to cancel the show after only a few more months. Yesterday he made it clear to both the Justice Department and Microsoft that he will not tolerate this landmark antitrust case stretching out for a decade, as the earlier IBM antitrust case did...

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