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Apple drops PostScript support in Preview for macOS Ventura
There are a lot of scientific/technical applications for PS/EPS files that remain, and many journals in those domains still want those file formats for figure submissions.That being said, on macOS, there is the macTeX distribution (https://tug.org/mactex/), which includes the TeXShop front end that can render PS/EPS files, which uses underlying functionality.Other Adobe applications, like the full Acrobat, render PS/EPS files, albeit, you will get a security warning, by default, when opening these files, asking if you trust the source of the file.Perhaps, if Apple elects to revert this change in Preview, they could take a similar approach with the pop up, as some have hypothesized that Apple's reason for this change in Preview is security related, paralleling a change in Office made by MS back in 2017/2018:https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/support-for-eps-images-has-been-turned-off-in-office-a069d664-4bcf-415e-a1b5-cbb0c334a840 ;
If you are so inclined, you can provide feedback to Apple on this here:
https://www.apple.com/feedback/macos.html
