alt Hacker NewsThat’s how it originally worked, but Apple has moved away from PDF to other native GPU frameworks for drawing. Now window content is stored as bitmaps instead of redrawing vector instructions.
That’s how it originally worked, but Apple has moved away from PDF to other native GPU frameworks for drawing. Now window content is stored as bitmaps instead of redrawing vector instructions.
That's not how it ever worked.
Quartz is a vector drawing engine whose output can be captured as a PDF and which is closely aligned with the PDF imaging model.
Window content was always stored as bitmaps.