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byAnonymous Coward writes:
apple likes to drop support because retaining it is slightly inconvenient for them. For some things that's a bit more stupid than for others.
PostScript is a handy-dandy programming language, if a bit obscure. But the bigger problem is that preview on macos is an "it just works" deal, and breaking that, that's just stupid. What's next, breaking support for TIFF because "nobody uses FAX anymore"? Besides that this isn't true in at least Japan, which is a sizeable market. Well, some of us have archives full o
byplate_o_shrimp ( 948271 ) writes:
Boo hiss indeed! I use abcm2ps to render sheet music. Til yesterday I could simply doubleclick the resultant .ps file and have a pdf copy of the music. I expected that to continue to be the case but now I discover here that this no longer works. Shit.
byRufty ( 37223 ) writes:
MacPorts has ps2pdf. I'd guess homebrew, too?
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byplate_o_shrimp ( 948271 ) writes:
MacPorts has ps2pdf. I'd guess homebrew, too?
Haven't played with either in years. And I thought I'd left ps2pdf behind with the Linux box on my work desk when I retired. I guess I'll have to reacquaint myself...
Or I guess I could do my rendering and converting on an RPi. Hello again, vi. Remember me?
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