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PDF.exe inside Mathematica.app on OS X

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• Subject: [mg127573] PDF.exe inside Mathematica.app on OS X
• From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
• Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2012 21:47:35 -0400 (EDT)
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When certain 3D graphics is rendered in Mathematica 8.0.4 on my Mac under OS X (10.7.4), I can see from the Mac's Activity Monitor that a process PDF.exe is activated. And inside the Mathematica.app package there's a file:


/Applications/Mathematica.app/SystemFiles/Converters/Binaries/MacOSX-x86-64/PDF.exe

I thought .exe always referred to a Windows PC executable. What's going on here?

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