macOS 13 Ventura: The Ars Technica review

Re:macOS 13 Ventura: The Ars Technica review by orr721 on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @01:34PM (#33333682)

Removing features like this is just plain stupid. Preview was one of the most valuable apps for viewing files preinstalled on every Mac. While I can understand that raw PostScript files are rarely seen nowadays, Encapsulated-PostScript is still used, i.e. for graphs in scientific software and publications.

To add an insult to injury, the Monterey era trick still works. Change the file extension from .eps or .ps to .ai (Adobe Illustrator) and QuickLook will happily display the file. It will even offer you to "Open in Preview" which then fails.

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Re:macOS 13 Ventura: The Ars Technica review by jiveturkey on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @08:03PM (#33337911)

Inconvenient, I'm sure. Stupid, I doubt. Maybe the postscript interpreter they were using just contained too many bugs to be worth maintaining any more.

https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-1084...

Does the removal of PS also remove support for EPS? That would be very awful.

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Re:macOS 13 Ventura: The Ars Technica review by kcplate on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @10:26PM (#33339018)

No, it’s simply inconvenient for a really small group of people. People who are probably tech savvy enough in an hour to write a script to use Ghostscript to convert every postscript or eps file in their library to pdf.

I spent nearly 25 years in print publishing tech (up until 2015) and it was rare for the last 3 years of my tenure in that industry to see any postscript source files for anything. The industry that postscript was built for moved on nearly 10 years ago.

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