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Seems like PostScript is too powerful for the security conscious world. This is probably a good move. It's unfortunate though, I liked PostScript and all the
by omoikane 3y ago
Seems like PostScript is too powerful for the security conscious world. This is probably a good move. It's unfortunate though, I liked PostScript and all the stuff you can do with it[1].
What's the new standard for vector graphics going forward? SVG? glTF?
[1] For example: https://uguu.org/src_udonge_ps.html https://uguu.org/src_udonge_ps.html
- jabl 3y agoPDF is the obvious successor. Though there are some things you can do with PS you can't do with PDF, because PDF AFAIU isn't a Turing complete language (though newer versions of PDF allow embedding of Javascript, IIRC).
- merb 3y ago> (though newer versions of PDF allow embedding of Javascript, IIRC) Which comes with its own security issues/problems, especially since adobe is the leading figure of pdf viewing/processing. PDF 2.0 removed a lot of old crap, like xfa… and postscript but they kept JavaScript