Why remote support for Postscript

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Why remote support for Postscript

There is a huge quantity of very old engineer software that need DOS drivers to print, or it generates a post script file.

Working with old, ancient automation equipment, that it may still take some yeras to be replaced, we need to open it's documentation, drawings.

The only way is Postscript.

Very unhappy lose support for Postscript. I use it a lot. Adn the post scripts files I have are very old. Most app that opens postscript cannot open it. MacOS used to open them without a problem.

Adome do not support the file format I get. Only MacOS used to recognize them. Now it is gone. Should I keep a old mac just for this?

Please, return the support to those formats.

Edouard

MacBook Pro Apple Silicon

Posted on Dec 16, 2022 7:48 AM

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VikingOSX

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Dec 16, 2022 8:55 AM in response to edouardd67

Apple includes a Postscript to PDF converter in the operating system at /usr/bin/pstopdf. There is no man page but the following approach in the Terminal is how one converts a Postscript document in the current directory to a corresponding PDF document that can in turn, be opened in Apple's Preview, or another PDF reader.

/usr/bin/pstopdf -o out.pdf < ./out.ps && open out.pdf

This produces a PDF v1.3 document.

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VikingOSX

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Dec 16, 2022 9:10 AM in response to VikingOSX

And the free Skim PDF reader directly opens Postscript files without converting them to PDF.

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Answer 3

Dec 16, 2022 8:22 AM in response to edouardd67

"The company did not offer a reason why, although it’s not inconceivable that it was for security reasons. In 2017, Microsoft turned off support for EPS in the Windows versions of Office apps due to vulnerabilities in the EPS format."

https://tidbits.com/2022/10/27/preview-in-ventura-drops-support-for-postscript-and-encapsulated-postscript-files/

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Old Toad

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Dec 16, 2022 8:06 AM in response to edouardd67

edouardd67 wrote:

Please, return the support to those formats.

Edouard

We're all end users here like yourself. We can't do what you would like. Apple personnel/engineers are not here. Tell Apple what missing features you'd like restored or new features added to the system via Feedback - macOS - Apple.

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Why remote support for Postscript

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