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@kbin.social
    15·
    1 year 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.

    • HeartyBeast@kbin.socialOP
      31·
      1 year 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