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Originally Posted by bob1xxx
Honestly it was usual dumb bitter short site apple move not to include PDF support on the Imaxie because of the adobe wars. There as so many pdf reader clients other than adobe's because of the color/size of the Imaxie screen it would make a superior reader of technical drawings/graphics / or pdf scanned historic documents, etc..... on top of all the free PG books, etc.... . Its about time apple got off their silly high horse and added pdf support.
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OS X has had PDF support built into the OS from day 1 (which translated to the iPhone/iPad as well). The display engine was based in part on Display Postscript, and PDF, and allowed any app to print to PDF easily, as well as offering system-wide APIs for manipulating PDFs for creation and consumption.
What they
didn't do was expose this out to
users. Developers have had the ability to do this stuff for years. They recently added an Obj-C wrapper around the C APIs in the last couple years.
The lack of PDF support in iBooks had nothing to do with Apple's feud with Adobe which is much more recent than Apple's avid support of PDF. It has more to do with getting a product out the door on time, with a big enough feature set to satisfy the core requirements. PDF fell by the wayside simply because of deadlines and ship dates.