For the last 39 years, PostScript has been at the heart of the Mac, bringing desktop publishing, fonts, and the LaserWriter and other printers. It has been removed from Sonoma.

For the last 39 years, PostScript has been at the heart of the Mac, bringing desktop publishing, fonts, and the LaserWriter and other printers. It has been removed from Sonoma.

  • conciselyverbose
    15•10 months ago

    TLDR: it isn’t really used, allows for code execution, and is old enough that it wasn’t designed with real threats in mind.

    • HeartyBeastOP
      2•10 months ago

      It’s used quite a bit when people export out from vector applications like Illustrator. I found it useful to be able to open those EPS files on Preview and was a bit pissed off when that option silently disapeared from Preview in Ventura

      • @abhibeckert
        4•10 months ago

        SVG is so much better than EPS. Unfortunately you can’t open them in Preview either.

  • GhostalmediaEnglish
    13•10 months ago

    I like that the accidental thumbnail for this story is a low resolution raster graphic. This is perfect.

  • chiisana
    5•10 months ago

    I have an old Brother HL-10H from mid 90s that’s still kicking using USB to LPT adapter and postscript driver. That thing is a tank, and isn’t likely to go any time soon. Guessing with this removal, it’ll also stop working when my last system upgrades to Sonoma and beyond?

    • @bigdog_00
      5•10 months ago

      This is still how we handle printers at work, this is about to become a nightmare