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QuickDraw GX
QuickDraw GX -- Those of you close enough to the bleeding edge to be using QuickDraw GX might enjoy this Easter egg, sent in by Charles Wiltgen <cwiltgen@mcs.com>. "Select a GX desktop printer, hold down Shift-Option-Command and choose Open from the File menu. It gives you a very cool, simple demo of GX's geometry capabilities." [TJE]
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