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The reaction to this is as if every computer on the planet is losing the ability to open with PS/EPS. PS/EPS were not native MacOS files until the infusion of N

by Aloha 3y ago

The reaction to this is as if every computer on the planet is losing the ability to open with PS/EPS. PS/EPS were not native MacOS files until the infusion of NeXTSTEP code into MacOS in the form of OS X. I've lived in a mixed system world for a long time, opening PS/EPS on Windows has always required extra software. You can convert it on Linux easy enough, or just install Ghostscript on MacOS. Either way, the time of PS/EPS as a regular and common interchange data format is long gone.

adastra22 3y ago
It’s in the very first paragraph of the article: > If there’s one language that’s been at the heart of the Macintosh for the last 39 years it’s PostScript, the page description language developed by the founders of Adobe, the late John Warnock and Charles Geschke, and their team of engineers. It brought the Mac’s first commercial success in desktop publishing, in PostScript fonts, and early PostScript printers including Apple’s game-changing LaserWriter. Although Mac OS X never inherited NeXTStep’s Display PostScript, its descendant Quartz and Core Graphics are still based on PostScript’s relative PDF.
arcticbull 3y ago
> PS/EPS were not native MacOS files until the infusion of NeXTSTEP code into MacOS in the form of OS X. I agree it’s probably not a big deal, but let’s be fair here. That was 22 years ago. Classic MacOS was only around for 17 (1984-2001). It’s a native format for macOS starting in 10.0 and prior to that an extra native format for NeXT starting in 1989 - when the macOS lineage began (note the lowercase ‘m’)
- GeekyBear 3y ago
  > It’s a native format for macOS NextStep licensed Adobe's Display PostScript for it's graphics subsystem, but when MacOS was developed Apple replaced Display PostScript with an in house implementation of the open PDF spec that they called Quartz 2D. > Quartz 2D is available to all macOS and iOS application environments and provides resolution-independent and device-independent rendering of bitmap graphics, text, and vectors both on-screen and in preparation for printing. The drawing model utilized by Quartz 2D is based on PDF specification 1.4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quartz_2D https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quartz_2D So now both Adobe and Apple have dropped PostScript in favor of PDF.
quickthrower2 3y ago
I jokingly thought the .ps format was used by computer science departments to punish Windows users, with the Ghostscript installation process being part of that conspiracy.
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by Aloha 3y ago

adastra22 3y ago

It’s in the very first paragraph of the article: > If there’s one language that’s been at the heart of the Macintosh for the last 39 years it’s PostScript, the page description language developed by the founders of Adobe, the late John Warnock and Charles Geschke, and their team of engineers. It brought the Mac’s first commercial success in desktop publishing, in PostScript fonts, and early PostScript printers including Apple’s game-changing LaserWriter. Although Mac OS X never inherited NeXTStep’s Display PostScript, its descendant Quartz and Core Graphics are still based on PostScript’s relative PDF.

arcticbull 3y ago

> PS/EPS were not native MacOS files until the infusion of NeXTSTEP code into MacOS in the form of OS X. I agree it’s probably not a big deal, but let’s be fair here. That was 22 years ago. Classic MacOS was only around for 17 (1984-2001). It’s a native format for macOS starting in 10.0 and prior to that an extra native format for NeXT starting in 1989 - when the macOS lineage began (note the lowercase ‘m’)

GeekyBear 3y ago
> It’s a native format for macOS NextStep licensed Adobe's Display PostScript for it's graphics subsystem, but when MacOS was developed Apple replaced Display PostScript with an in house implementation of the open PDF spec that they called Quartz 2D. > Quartz 2D is available to all macOS and iOS application environments and provides resolution-independent and device-independent rendering of bitmap graphics, text, and vectors both on-screen and in preparation for printing. The drawing model utilized by Quartz 2D is based on PDF specification 1.4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quartz_2D https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quartz_2D So now both Adobe and Apple have dropped PostScript in favor of PDF.

quickthrower2 3y ago

I jokingly thought the .ps format was used by computer science departments to punish Windows users, with the Ghostscript installation process being part of that conspiracy.

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