Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 258

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 258. Here are my solutions to them.

1: Sneak peek before seeing a wide range of image types.

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Preview

Sneak peek (a preview) before (pre) seeing (view) a wide range of image types (what Preview does).

2: Tumbler to open mobile type instead of previous.

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(Adobe) Acrobat

Tumbler (an acrobat) to open mobile type (portable document format) instead of previous (alternative to Preview for PDF).

3: Show afterthought from next never made it to Mac OS X.

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Display PostScript

Show (display) afterthought (a postscript) from next (from NeXTSTEP) never made it to Mac OS X (it was replaced by Quartz with Display PDF).

The common factor

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Each works with, or was replaced by, PDF.

I look forward to your putting alternative cases.