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QuickDraw GX was a replacement for Apple's QuickDraw graphics engine and Printing Manager, initially released in about January 1995. Version 1.1.1 was bundled with Macintosh System 7.5 later that year. Besides including a complete replacement for the traditional Macintosh printing architecture, it also introduced a repackaging of Type 1 fonts using the TrueType format. While the intentions behind these reorganizations were good—to make things easier to install and manage for users—there were too many existing applications and application developers that were used to doing things the old way. Thus, the installation of GX introduced a host of incompatibilities that only succeeded in annoying users. This, coupled with a lack of communication from Apple about the benefits of QuickDraw GX and w

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  • QuickDraw GX was a replacement for Apple's QuickDraw graphics engine and Printing Manager, initially released in about January 1995. Version 1.1.1 was bundled with Macintosh System 7.5 later that year. Besides including a complete replacement for the traditional Macintosh printing architecture, it also introduced a repackaging of Type 1 fonts using the TrueType format. While the intentions behind these reorganizations were good—to make things easier to install and manage for users—there were too many existing applications and application developers that were used to doing things the old way. Thus, the installation of GX introduced a host of incompatibilities that only succeeded in annoying users. This, coupled with a lack of communication from Apple about the benefits of QuickDraw GX and w
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  • QuickDraw GX was a replacement for Apple's QuickDraw graphics engine and Printing Manager, initially released in about January 1995. Version 1.1.1 was bundled with Macintosh System 7.5 later that year. Besides including a complete replacement for the traditional Macintosh printing architecture, it also introduced a repackaging of Type 1 fonts using the TrueType format. While the intentions behind these reorganizations were good—to make things easier to install and manage for users—there were too many existing applications and application developers that were used to doing things the old way. Thus, the installation of GX introduced a host of incompatibilities that only succeeded in annoying users. This, coupled with a lack of communication from Apple about the benefits of QuickDraw GX and why developers and users should adopt it, led to the technology being sidelined. Mac OS 8 dropped support for the GX printing architecture, though the GX graphics engine was kept alive a little bit longer in the form of the "GXGraphics" system extension. With the advent of OS X, GX was killed off altogether.
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