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2026-05-11 09:24 UTC

@evert@indieweb.social @rl_dane@polymaths.social @thomasareed@infosec.exchange Yeah, same. They might still include bitmap exports of varying sizes for an icon set, but I'd assume the core is all vectors these days.

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@rl_dane@polymaths.social 2026-05-11 11:25

@glennseto@mastodon.social @evert@indieweb.social @thomasareed@infosec.exchange Probably vector in the original design, but everything was still bitmap-slinging last I checked. The only OS that used true, pure vectors for everything was IRIX, AFAIK.

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@mathew@universeodon.com 2026-05-11 20:38

@glennseto@mastodon.social @evert@indieweb.social @rl_dane@polymaths.social @thomasareed@infosec.exchange Mac OS X initially used PDF for a lot of icons, because its imaging layer came from NeXTSTEP, which was based on PDF. (Which in turn was because Steve didn't want to pay royalties to Adobe for Display PostScript.) For example, /System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app/Contents/Resources used to have the PDFs for the dock's icons, like `poof.pdf` for the cloud animation when you dragged something out of the dock. There are still quite a few PDFs for UI elements under /System, but the number has been going down as successive redesigns have taken place.

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