Beginning with macOS Ventura, launched this week, the built-in Preview app on Mac now not helps PostScript (.ps) and Encapsulated PostScript (.eps) recordsdata, based on a brand new Apple help doc. MacRumors stories: Preview can nonetheless be used to open these recordsdata on macOS Monterey and earlier. Apple didn’t present a motive for the change. Apple recommends utilizing different third-party Mac apps that may view or convert PostScript recordsdata. It additionally stays potential to print .ps and .eps recordsdata by dragging them right into a Mac’s printer queue […].
Developed by Adobe within the Nineteen Eighties, the .ps and .eps file codecs have been as soon as extensively used for desktop publishing/printing functions. PostScript was the idea of rendering on the NeXT working system, and was largely changed by the PDF format in Mac OS X.