Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 224

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 224. Here are my solutions to them.

1: Last words that ignited a revolution in printing in the eighties.

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PostScript

Last words (a postscript to a document) that ignited a revolution in printing (it was the page description language that brought the desktop publishing revolution) in the eighties (it was created by John Warnock and others in 1982-84).

2: Sun-dried brick and tumbler became the universal document creator.

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Adobe Acrobat

Sun-dried brick (an adobe) and tumbler (an acrobat) became the universal document creator (developed from John Warnock’s Camelot project in 1991, and first released in 1993, its file format PDF has become one of the few universal document types).

3: San Antonio Creek creates pictures for a book released in 1987.

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Adobe Illustrator

San Antonio Creek (later known as Adobe Creek, it was the origin of Adobe’s name) creates pictures for a book (what an illustrator does) released in 1987 (initially conceived by John Warnock in 1985, it was released by Adobe in 1987).

The common factor

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They are all achievements of the late Dr John Warnock, co-founder of Adobe Systems, who died on 19 August 2023. May he rest in peace on his many great achievements.

I look forward to your putting alternative cases.