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.